A New Partnership for Akendi UK Ltd

We are pleased to announce that on 1st July Akendi UK Ltd entered into a new and exciting partnership with the Dutch company Keen Design. Together we have formed a new company, Keen Design Ltd which will leverage the strengths of both companies to provide User Experience Design services to a wider range of clients in the UK. Akendi UK Ltd will continue to operate within its established markets, offering UX services with domain knowledge in semiconductors, healthcare and telecommunications in the UK and abroad.

Keen's CEO, Iwan Cuijpers says, "Going to new places, meeting new people, I get a lot of energy from that. Being able to start something new with a high-quality company like Akendi, you couldn't have written that script. I'm really happy to start working with Leo and his team and see how we can accelerate ourselves and UX as a field across our borders."

Keen Design, started in the Netherlands in 2003, is a highly experienced UX Design agency with experts in the field of Service Design, User Experience (UX) Design and Research, User Interface (UI) design and Visual Design. They not only help their clients develop successful products and services, but also level up the UX maturity within their organisations. Their experience is channeled in several dedicated business units across The Netherlands, Germany and Austria. They mainly focus on clients and their users in financial, government, education, health and software organisations.

Akendi UK Ltd is one the UK's well respected UX companies with clients in the semiconductor, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, energy and telecommunications markets. Akendi's multi-disciplinary team take a project from inception through customer and user research to interaction and visual design. Clients such as Arm, McKinsey, NHS, Roche, Aveva have benefitted from Akendi's expertise to 'Simplify the Complex'.

Akendi UK President Leo Poll is delighted to be part of Keen Design Ltd, “I’m excited to drive forward the opportunities that this partnership provides. I am confident that by joining forces with Iwan and his team we will have a unique combination of skills that will make this new business venture a success”.