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Donovan Lewis
NL
Portrait of Donovan Lewis, smiling, against a warm amber and lilac lit wall.

About

I help teams move from abstract ideas to tangible solutions.

My background is in Industrial Design. That training still shapes how I work: an idea is not finished until someone can hold it, use it, or argue with it.

I help organisations turn complex questions into solutions that work for customers, citizens and employees. I start with research into what people need, then design services, journeys and digital products with stakeholders — made testable through sketches, prototypes and experiments.

I joined PwC’s Experience Center as an intern in 2018 and am now a manager in Experience Consulting. I lead teams from user research and briefing through to delivery, and the accountability sits with me.

Based in Deventer, working across the Netherlands — often in Amsterdam — and remotely when that suits the work better.

Journey

How I got here.

  1. The making years

    Industrial Design

    I started by shaping physical things: sketches, foam models, CAD, light, materials. The craft taught me that an idea is not real until someone can hold it, walk around it, or argue with it.

  2. Beyond the object

    Service Design

    Products live inside journeys. I learned to map the invisible: moments, handovers, waiting, trust. Whiteboards became as important as workshops, and stories became as important as surfaces.

  3. From journeys to feelings

    Customer Experience

    Experience is what people remember after the process is forgotten. I help teams listen more carefully, design for the human in the loop, and turn complexity into something that feels obvious.

  4. Making the unproven tangible

    Innovation

    I facilitate rooms where vague ambition becomes a testable concept. Rapid cycles, cheap prototypes, honest feedback. Innovation is less a lightning bolt than a series of small, brave makes.

  5. Where I am now

    AI & Rapid Prototyping

    Tools got faster. Agents, copilots and prompt craft let ideas become working artefacts in hours instead of quarters. I am exploring how design judgement and machine speed can share a table.

Skills

How I make ideas real.

Design

  • Industrial design
  • Embodiment design
  • Service design
  • Customer experience

Innovation

  • Vision design
  • Concept development
  • Rapid prototyping
  • CX / UX research

Technology

  • Prompt engineering
  • AI agents
  • CAD & 3D modelling
  • Digital fabrication

Leadership

  • Creative facilitation
  • Agile project management
  • Team leadership
  • Mentoring & coaching

Certifications

Formally, on paper.

  • Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals

    Microsoft · 2026

  • PRINCE2 Foundation

    PeopleCert · 2026

  • Certified Customer Experience Professional

    CXPA · 2025

  • SAFe® Agilist

    Scaled Agile · 2023

  • Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt

    Lean Six Sigma · 2023

  • Professional Scrum Product Owner I

    Scrum.org · 2022

  • Professional Scrum Master I

    Scrum.org · 2020

Four pairs of hands arranging coloured paper and foam pieces into a large circle on a table. Part of the ring is still open, with the remaining pieces waiting beside the gap.