Designing Services That Work for Everyone.

At Big Motive, we design innovative, accessible solutions that help people and enable organisations to excel.

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What We Do

We specialise in designing user-focused digital products and services that address the needs of both users and the teams who deliver them. Our expertise in user experience (UX) and service design ensures that our solutions are accessible to all users, including those with disabilities, sustainable for long-term use, and intuitive for seamless interaction.

At Big Motive, design goes beyond creation. It’s about solving meaningful problems and shaping the future. Whether it’s integrating emerging technologies or reimagining services to overcome outdated systems, we bring creativity, strategic insight, and technical expertise to tackle every challenge with purpose.

 

Our Services

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Empowering Accessibility: Transforming Pobal.ie for an Inclusive Digital Future

We’re working with Pobal to raise accessibility standards and lead an inclusive digital transformation, ensuring their online platform meets the needs of every user, including those with disabilities.

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DPENDR – Life Event Design

The Department of Public Expenditure NDP Delivery and Reform (DPENDR) is uniting Irish government departments to develop citizen-centred services using a 'Life Events' approach. Commissioned to support this vision, we undertook the 'birth' life event and used service design methods to develop a better understanding of how parents' currently engage with public services in Ireland.

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The big motive team conducting a workshop around children's rights and privacy

Responsible design for children’s services

Supporting design and technology teams on behalf of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to protect children’s privacy.

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A connected health experience for people living with Asthma and COPD

A connected health experience for people living with Asthma and COPD

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Cumulus UI

Delivering optimal brain health data quality through human-centred design

The Cumulus platform provides data and insight to clinical trials that improve the delivery of new therapies to patients. We delivered a comprehensive review of the patient and researcher user experience and developed a new design system which implements the new brand identity. This enabled a major pilot study and laid foundations for a consistent user experience across future releases and studies.

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resilico app

Helping communities become resilient to flooding

Resilico is a suite of digital products developed in collaboration with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), the Environment Agency (EA), and FloodRe, designed to help people and organisations better prepare for flooding.

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Our Place in Space

Our Place In Space

An AR journey through the solar system, exploring what it means to live on earth

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Designing an award-winning contact-tracing service to fight the pandemic

A citizen-centred approach developed with Health & Social Care in Northern Ireland (HSCNI) to design the country's digital contact tracing app—the world's first working cross-border solution and the first contact tracing app available for users aged 11 to 17.

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News and reflections from the frontlines of society-centred design.

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Reflecting on Innovation Day 2024

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Have Your Say: Needs and expectations of the new Sports Capital Programme grant application system

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From Discovery to Delivery: Inside a Design Sprint with Queen’s University Belfast’s MBA

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