The experts in psychological
research and development

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Together with you and your customers, we develop psychologically sound innovations and designs that are novel and directly connect with people’s lives
To do this, we work beyond the box: psychological research, strategic thinking, and practical creation are one and the same for us. The basis for this is InsightArt®, our agile and interdisciplinary research and development concept developed over 12 years.
We accompany you through the entire innovation process: from initial exploration to market-ready prototypes. Always in focus: the deeper needs and desires of your customers. Without handovers, translation losses, or unnecessary breaks. This not only results in viable solutions in a short period of time. Our collaborative approach also ensures that all relevant stakeholders participate in the innovation process with their heads and hearts and actively help shape it.
With our InsightArt® Guides we accompany you according to your objectives

Design and communication
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We support you in the development of creative and at the same time strategy and target group conform designs for communication, packaging, product or store.
When designs optimally ‘dock’ with people’s psychological motives and inner visual worlds — their ideas, wishes or desires — they can achieve the communication goals and solve the relevant marketing tasks. Design-led research and research-led creation therefore link up right from the start.
In workshops or individual interviews with the target group, the relevant image motifs, stories, color spaces, keywords, etc. are determined as part of the depth-psychological exploration, using special psychological-design methods such as co-design or a visual trigger analysis, supported by the selective use of generative AI. From this, the relevant design code and the relevant search fields for the desired design are developed, if necessary supplemented by a design analysis of the competition.
An InsightArt®manual in “design language” contains all relevant design components as well as prototypical design drafts in addition to the psychological basics. It is inspiration for the development of the final designs: in collaborative InsightArt®teamLabs, in cooperation with your lead agency, external creatives and designers or directly from us. If required, they can be tested for final optimizations.
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Products and services
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Together with you, we “destroy” old thought patterns and develop product and offer ideas that are innovative and at the same time customer-centric.
By taking a deep look at people’s motives and using creative invention principles, we consciously leave behind old paths. This creates space for inspirations and ideas that are novel or even disruptive and at the same time hit the right nerve with consumers.
InsightArt®research uncovers the deeper needs ‘behind’ the superficial desires of consumers and provides the pivotal point for idea development, the “psychological code”.
A SWOT analysis and conversations with your employees reveals potentials and opportunities of your company and your team and connects the internal with the external view.
In an InsightArt®manual we map the possibility space and show the most promising innovation directions.
Ideas and prototypes on a high creative level are developed in InsightArt®teamLabs, among others by using professional creative strategies and generative AI. Prototypes are tested again on consumers if necessary.
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Marketing concepts
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We support you in the development of marketing concepts and mockups that are centered on the needs of your customers.
In iterative loops of systematic mockup creation and customer feedback including psychological analysis, as well as team reviews with all stakeholders, we work with you to develop a customer journey, advertising material or online interfaces.
The results are available after approx. 2 weeks of intensive, agile and practice-oriented collaboration — in the form of prototypes that can be used directly in marketing (with slight adjustments by Brand if necessary). Psychologically sound, they create more conversion and enable you to present them more convincingly to internal interfaces.
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Strategic concepts for the future
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We make cultural trends transparent and support you in developing scenarios and future concepts.
Concrete opportunities and risks can be uncovered and new business areas and strategies for your own company can be developed. Because despite all the uncertainty that the future holds, psychological needs are a reliable constant.
A psychological culture study related to your business sector is expanded with methods such as lifeworld collages, culture samples or science fiction narratives. Developments in the current world of consumers’ lives and imaginations can be understood in depth in this way. This is supplemented, for example, by utopias/dystopias or the creation of images of the future.
An InsightArt®manual “Trends” with probability evaluations for different future scenarios gives you inspiration in addition to more security for planning. Based on the scenarios, we develop innovative concepts for future business areas or the reorientation of existing ones for the future together with you in an InsightArt®teamLab.
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The approach is designed individually for each innovation project and the tools used are adapted – or new ones are invented if necessary.
Our book on design psychology
2nd, updated and extended edition (2025)

Monika Heimann, Michael Schütz:
Wie Design wirkt. Psychologische Prinzipien erfolgreicher Gestaltung.
Bestseller 2nd edition
Rheinwerk Design, 2025
“A successful reference book for the media designer”
(Akademie Druck+Medien Nord-West to the previous edition)
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2nd, expanded and revised edition 2025.
New in this edition: Based on the latest psychological approaches, the book develops a contemporary theory of design and design development. You will learn how to combine design with psychology and use this to develop designs that really make an impact. This is essential, especially in the age of AI: effective design is more than just following rules or calculating patterns.
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InsightArt® Design Guide on video
(English subtitles)
Project examples (anonymized)
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