Collaborate with professionals to solve your design challenges
DesignLink offers businesses the opportunity to work with highly skilled early-stage creatives to tackle their design problems.
Does your business face a design challenge that needs fresh, innovative thinking? DesignLink is your opportunity to work with highly skilled early-stage creatives to tackle your biggest design dilemmas at no cost to you.
DesignLink, created by the Future Island-Island project, aims to solve big, impactful challenges that, if solved, could bring significant change to your business. For example, if your company generates waste materials during production, could they be repurposed into a new product? If you have a workflow bottleneck, could a fresh spatial strategy improve efficiency?
Business benefits
- Access expert design thinking for free
- Minimal time commitment for businesses - less than a day's effort in total
- Solutions to your design challenges
- Fully funded participation
How to get involved
If your business has a design challenge and would like to get involved in DesignLink, simply email futureislandisland@qub.ac.uk with a brief description of your design problem - just a sentence or two.
The deadline for responses is Monday 28 April 2025.
Download further details on DesignLink: Unlocking Big Ideas Through Design Thinking (PDF, 78K).
First published 3 April 2025