Need to innovate fast?
Butters Innovation delivers plug-and-play user centred innovation and product design, to help you grow your business, reduce commercial risks and make progress in weeks rather than months!
Work with winning professionals!
We're winners of Liverpool City Region's Culture & Creativity Awards 2025 Innovation Award!
How we can help your innovation journey
We're fast and agile! We can get you from initial concept to high fidelity working prototype in weeks not months, still understanding the long-term roadmap
Reduce commercial risk
Our user-centred approach to new product development ensures you build the right thing, that's not only feasible but also desirable and viable
Plug-and-play expertise
Bring our decades of experience in product development and innovation into your business exactly when you need it, for as long as you need it
Butters Innovation supports your innovation journey
We engage strategically with our clients in Innovation and User-Centred Design processes, to boost growth and profits. We have worked with dozens of small-medium enterprises, startups and university spin-outs, to help them embed a user-centred culture and develop successful manufacturable solutions, devices and machines, and digital platforms - across the med-tech, healthcare, wellbeing, energy, environmental and consumer product sectors.
What we do
We make sure you build the right thing, not just build something right!
user-centred innovation
We help you engage with your users and customers, and tap into your stakeholder networks, to gain insights and test emerging ideas
product design and development
Decades of experience developing successful physical and digital solutions across multiple sectors that can be verified and validated
unbiased research (problem and solution)
Working with stakeholder communities to illicit genuine responses, to inform and test the development of novel products and systems
co-design
Setting up stakeholder events and hackathons to establish functional and user requirements - also known as Design Inputs
direct manufacture
Producing finished parts without tooling, from 3D printing additive manufacture processes
design for manufacture & supply chain development
Turning ideas into great, manufacturable business outcomes with your supply chain or our network of producers
regulatory compliance for medical devices
Experience in ensuring compliance with CE/UKCA Class I, IIa and IIb, as well as FDA 510(k)
funding applications
Successfully raised private investment funding, and grants from Innovate UK, UK IPO, NIHR i4i, Made Smarter, EIT Health, Innovation Vouchers and university research grants.
What challenges are you facing?
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How can we help?
Every project is different, so we tailor our offering to suit your needs
Reduce commercial risk and costly mistakes
By using user centred design thinking early in the development process, we can help to define the problem, highlight opportunities, set out the use case and test it with early-stage concepts and physical prototypes
Right-sized support
Whether you need a small amount of support, an expert review of an existing project, an end-to-end solution or simple advice we are here to help in the most appropriate way
Compliant medical device development
We are experienced in developing medical devices and are compliant with the quality management systems required under EU and USA regulatory law
Prototyping as a way to learn
We don't design prototypes, we prototype designs - using prototyping to test ideas, user behaviour and investigate what aspects of a solution will work and where the real problems lie
What our clients say
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