Brand essentials workshops

Turn abstract ideas into a tangible visual language to describe what your brand is all about, and use this as a base for decisions about your product’s visuals, voice, and identity.
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A tangible visible language

The goal of our brand essentials program is to turn abstract ideas into a tangible visual language to describe what your (new or revamped) brand is all about. This deep understanding makes it easier to take decisions about your product’s visuals, voice, and identity, and allows us to distill a clear brief for the designer that will be creating the visual identity. 

1. Brand sprint

We use 6 exercises to get an understanding of your existing brand or to set the foundation for your new brand:

  • 20-year roadmap for a long-term vision
  • Golden circle (by Simon Sinek) to highlight the purpose of your organisation, and to separate the ‘why’ from the ‘how’ and the ‘what’
  • Top 3 values to make your purpose more specific and get to the core of the brand
  • Top 3 audiences to prioritise the brand’s target
  • Personality sliders for the attitude and style of the brand
  • Competitive landscape to position your brand relative to others

2. Visual identity

After getting an understanding of the brand, we define the scope of visual explorations to follow. We talk about very practical topics such as colors, patterns and textures, images and photography, layout, typography, icons, data visualisations, illustrations and animations.

3. Visual inventory

If your visual identity already exists, we can do a visual inventory. This is where we map out visual elements you have and decide which ones you want to keep and/or iterate on. Of course, we can omit the inventory if you currently don’t have a brand or if there’s absolutely nothing of your existing brand that you want to keep.

Benefits

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Tangible and visual
A tangible visual language to describe what your brand is all about
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Decisions with confidence
A base for decisions about your product’s visuals, voice, and identity
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Clear brief
A clear brief for the designer that will be creating the visual identity
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One workshop day
We can combine the workshop elements that are relevant for you – and do them all in a day

Activities

  • Get an understanding of your existing brand or set the foundation for your new brand
  • Define the scope of visual explorations to follow
  • Map out visual elements you have and decide what to keep and/or iterate on
  • Summarise workshop outcomes
  • Create 2-3 style tiles
  • Optional: Set up brand essentials in Figma

Brand essentials workshop with Hike One

From 2000€*
If you need a quote or a custom approach, leave your details and we’ll get in touch.
* This amount is indicative and based on our default approach with a full team.

Get started today

You can use the workflow in our UX Playbook to outline the essentials of your brand – whether it’s a new or existing one. If it turns out to be fuzzier than expected, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us.

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From absent to incidental
From incidental to structural
From structural to integral
Characteristics
User research is incidental and ad hoc.
Fragmented and outdated user journey maps.

Insights are not findable or accessible for every team.

No set of fixed methods.
Initiating fixed working methods.

Systematic.

The user journey becomes the starting point for the workflow.

Central storage of insights. Rights and access are managed.

Continuous user research, testing and implementation of improvements.
The same, interchangeable methods for collecting user data throughout the organization.

It is clear who can (and must) make the decisions.

Every product team - in all relevant chapters and departments - has the same way of working.
What we do
We start with a short audit.

We help you realize your first successes.

We give you the tools to work based on user data. We collect input from your target group.

Depending on where you are, Hike One can take responsibility while we take care of the implementation together.
We help with creating structure, defining roles and selecting the right tools.

We help to coach your (new) experts in-house.

We ensure that you can deliver consistently high quality with less effort.

Together we continuously map and manage the user journey, with responsibility increasingly shifting to your own team members.
We help you get the entire organization working based on user journeys.

We spread the gospel across all silos and we help coach the coaches.

If necessary, we help develop the business case and present it at C-level.
Hike One brought a range of approaches that helped us get from nothing to exciting very quickly. Their creative explorations pushed us into really innovative territory, and their collaborative spirit helped our work gain traction across the company. I would recommend Hike One to anyone with a product at a similar life stage.
Tom Harle, Lead customer research and connected services at Lightyear

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Feel free to contact me!

David van Duinen, Commercial Director

06 46 24 31 49

david@hike.one

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