Joe Heapy

Joe Heapy is a co-founder and Director of Engine. With roots in industrial product design, Joe is an engaging advocate of the social value of design in improving people’s lives.

Joe has worked with many of Engine’s clients across sectors to improve business performance and the experiences of service users. Joe leads the development of the public sector practice that continues to scope a role for designers in improving people’s lives through the organisations of government, public service, social enterprise and the citizen sector. Joe collaborated with Demos to research and publish The Journey to the Interface, a pamphlet setting out the role of user-centred approaches to service design in the public sector.