A.M.

AndyMarsden

Practice

Design for stewardship, not only craft

Navigate complexity together

Complex problems need a mix of skills. I make frameworks and tools, like policy blueprinting, that teams can pick up and use to create change.

Research without gatekeepers

The people a decision affects should shape it early. I give teams direct routes to users and stakeholders instead of routing everything through a designer.

Prototype in days

A rough prototype this week beats a perfect plan. I set the guardrails and use no-code tools so teams can put ideas in front of real people in days.

Selected work

From the object in the hand to the national system

Policy blueprinting
Nesta, 2024 onwards

Policy blueprinting

A method that applies service design to complex policy. A policy blueprint maps the actors, steps and interactions needed to deliver a policy, so the people who write policy and the people who deliver it design it together.

It underpins Nesta's work on coordinated, street-by-street heat pump switching, and is available as an open template for other teams.

Clean Heat Neighbourhoods
Nesta, 2024 onwards

Clean Heat Neighbourhoods

A test, learn and grow portfolio that helps whole areas switch to clean heat together. I lead work across the system with councils, installers, network operators and residents to create systemic change.

We test ideas in real places, build a network of partners, and develop GB-wide tools, guidance and policy asks.

Money Saving Boiler Challenge
Nesta, 2022 to 2023

Money Saving Boiler Challenge

A nationwide campaign that helps households save money and cut carbon emissions.

3.1Mhouseholds with a lower boiler flow temperature
500ktestimated CO₂ savings
£300min household energy bill savings
£157min HM Treasury savings

A toolkit for advice agencies sits alongside the self-serve tool, which features in the UK Government's Help for Households advice.

Loewe
Bodo Sperlein, 2015 to 2018

Loewe: brand, product and digital ecosystem

A new direction for the German TV and audio maker: a reorientated brand and product range, and a new digital ecosystem. The work won multiple iF Design Awards.

Associations

  • Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
  • AHRC Net Zero Design Research Network

Talks

  • Design Without Designers, SDinGov, Edinburgh, 2026
  • Design for stewarding cross-sector mission delivery, SDinGov, 2025
  • Future Symposium, Royal College of Art, 2025

Recognition

  • iF Design Awards
  • Dezeen
  • Land Rover BORN
  • Wallpaper*
  • Design Intelligence
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