Hello sunshine, we’re a design consultancy

Make Hay facilitates and contributes to building purposeful, responsible, and well-crafted products and services – be they self initiated or together with our partners and clients.

We often work as embedded and contributing members of product teams and innovation environments, playing an integral part in their development.

We are equally comfortable transforming an idea into a testable minimum viable product as we are crafting a new value proposition or fostering a culture of innovation.

Haydn Evans

Founder & Designer

I’m an entrepreneur, designer, educator, and leader with over twenty-five years experience.

I work strategically and hands-on to build brands, companies, products, and services that see you and your needs, reduce complexity, and when all is said and done create value.

Skilled at fostering the right conditions for teams to thrive through leading by doing, facilitation, coaching, and building a culture for experimentation and feedback.

I’m a proponent and practitioner of visual thinking, using it to tame complexity, quickly communicate ideas, co-create, and understand each other.

Currently, I’m supporting the innovation team at Gjensidige with strategic and hands-on service development. At this time we’re in the process of rolling out a brand new home insurance product with integrated alarm services - Hus Smart (in Norwegian).

Over the years…

…in his previous roles, Haydn has worked with the following clients.

Ruter

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Oda

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Posten

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Karpe

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Gjensidige

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Oslo kommune

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Oslo Accident & Emergency

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AMOI

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Ruter 〰️ Oda 〰️ Posten 〰️ Karpe 〰️ Gjensidige 〰️ Oslo kommune 〰️ Oslo Accident & Emergency 〰️ AMOI 〰️

Make Hay
venture studio.

Make Hay’s strategy is to invest part of its time, resources and profits in developing bold and promising startups.

We want to play a part in helping start-ups solve meaningful and important challenges such as providing a happy, healthy, and enriched learning experience for all children, or enhancing the quality of life in cities by making them healthier, safer, and less polluted to live and work in.

We leverage our network, capabilities, and resources to help build and test new ventures that seek to solve wicked problems and contribute to building a more sustainable and equitable society.

Currently, we're seeking entrepreneurs with seed ideas or early-stage ventures. If you're working on a project that could benefit from collaborating with us at Make Hay, please don't hesitate to reach out.