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Top 25 Design thinking consulting firms based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 4,253 design thinking consulting firms headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 52,836 professional contacts across them, including 22,266 with verified work emails and 4,433 with mobile numbers. London is the largest hub.
This list covers design thinking consulting firms headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 24, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest design thinking consulting firms based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 21,018 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We guide, plan and design the future of the built environment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 726 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “If you remember only one thing about JKR, it's Be Distinctive Everywhere.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 526 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are the global brand-led strategy and design company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 452 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our work encompasses graphics and identity, architecture and interiors, products and packaging, exhibitions and installations, websites and digital experiences, advertising and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 391 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Fjord, part of Accenture Song, is a design and innovation consultancy that reimagines people’s relationships with the digital and physical world around them.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 275 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “An award-winning global consulting firm working with clients across a diverse range of markets, industries and geographies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 264 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We shape places that connect people and inspire every day.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 260 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Zebra is a global design and architecture firm specializing in consumer-focused experiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 235 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We’re a multi-disciplinary design company partnering with brands and organisations who want to take on the challenge of change.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 203 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Elmwood is a globally recognised, award-winning strategic brand design consultancy that builds brands with intent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 183 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MCM is a creative consultancy of architects, designers, workplace strategists and behavioural change experts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 178 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The future has never moved this fast.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 178 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We’re a London based service design agency that transforms businesses through innovation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 176 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SPACE are experts in the workplace, and for more than 29 years, have been helping organisations transform their working environments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 167 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BIP is the international consultancy for the 21st century with over 6,500 consultants globally daring to make a difference.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 166 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “YLD is a software engineering, data engineering, and product design consultancy, specialising in customer experience and disruptive technologies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 161 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Design platform with influence around the world We help brands connect with their customers Brand identity, graphic & web design, illustration, motion” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 159 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1960, today we are one of the world's leading product design and development consultancies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 142 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Sysdoc we exist to help our clients to transform, adapt and operate in order for them to achieve their ambitions, and to provide our own people with opportunities that allow…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We believe that change is an opportunity to thrive.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 132 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ustwo is a global digital product studio launching products and services that make a meaningful impact on the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 130 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “JDO’s international team of designers, brand strategists and client service consultants band together to deliver creative excellence to the world’s most loved and influential…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 129 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “hedgehog lab is a human centred digital product consultancy helping organisations build the right thing, the right way.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 128 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Crux is an innovation-driven research, design and development consultancy that develops intelligent products for some of the biggest brands in the medical, consumer and technology…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 124 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We create brands as living breathing experiences, from powerful identities to multi-sensorial worlds.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 24, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: design thinking consulting firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names design thinking consulting firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of design thinking consulting firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name design thinking consulting firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Design thinking consulting firms based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 24, 2026Companies by employee count
Freshness & accuracy
How recently the business emails were verified and the company information checked
Email last verified
Median 27.0dCompany record updated
Median 76.0dHow this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among design thinking consulting firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “design thinking consulting firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names design thinking consulting firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among design thinking consulting firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 22,266 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 24, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Design thinking consulting firms by metro
- Design thinking consulting firms in London1925
- Design thinking consulting firms in Manchester111
- Design thinking consulting firms in Bristol70
- Design thinking consulting firms in Glasgow65
- Design thinking consulting firms in Leeds64
- Design thinking consulting firms in Edinburgh59
- Design thinking consulting firms in Birmingham47
- Design thinking consulting firms in Brighton44
- Design thinking consulting firms in Cambridge38
- Design thinking consulting firms in Belfast36
- Design thinking consulting firms in Sheffield33
- Design thinking consulting firms in Newcastle Upon Tyne29
- Design thinking consulting firms in Nottingham29
- Design thinking consulting firms in Leicester26
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names design thinking consulting firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many design thinking consulting firms are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 4,253 design thinking consulting firms headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
ARUP, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most design thinking consulting firms?
London leads with 1925 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (111) and Bristol (70).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 22,266 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 4,253 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 24, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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