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Clive Grinyer FRSA (born 1960) is a British service designer and Head of Programme for the Service Design Masters at the Royal College of Art. He has led a number of design teams and worked across product, digital and service design. In 2018 Creative Review described him as "a passionate advocate for the transformational potential of design for some three decades. Today’s focus on the value of digital product design and on design’s value in leading customer experience in the UK is, in large part, due to his work."

Design Career
Grinyer studied at Central School of Art and Design (now Central St Martins) and graduated in 1983. Whilst there he won a RSA Student Bursary for his design of a street bus timetable system that incorporated displays at bus stops to inform passengers of the bus arrival time and used the bursary to travel to Japan. After graduation, he became a staff designer at Moggridge Associates, founded by British Industrial designer Bill Moggridge. He moved to the San Francisco office ID Two where he worked as a product designer and in the emerging practice of Interaction Design. Grinyer spent time collaborating with Columbus, Ohio design company Richardson Smith, who later went onto join the UK design agency Fitch

On returning to the UK in 1988 he moved to the design consultancy where he met a young design student Jony Ive. Following a period working in Cambridge at Cambridge Consultants, Clive founded the design agency tangerine with his college friend Martin Darbyshire. The Partnership was extended when Jony joined, shortly followed by fellow Central graduate Peter Phillips. Based in London, the team went onto win projects with Apple Computer, Ideal Standard and LG consumer electronics.

In 1994 he moved back to San Francisco and joined the design and innovation company IDEO, which Bill Moggridge had founded with US engineer Dave Kelly and British industrial designer Mike Nuttal. Grinyer set up the IS Studio, a joint collaboration with Korean company Samsung and IDEO in Palo Alto, CA.

On returning to the UK in 1996, Grinyer became the European Head of Design for Samsung at their new headquarters in London. In 1995 Samsung had opened a major new manufacturing facility ay Wynyard near Billingham in County Durham, UK. Grinyer was one of a number of British designers invited by the UK Prime Minister Tony Blair to celebrate the achievements of UK Design. The Samsung Design Europe team won a series of awards with iF, Red Dot and the Industrial Society of America (IDSA).

By 1998 Samsung closed the design studio due to severe economic conditions in Korea and the design team moved to design agency Fitch. As Head of Product Design, Grinyer worked on products for BT and TAG Mclaren Audio, an extension of the McLaren F1 team and their technology offshoot TAG Electronics. In 1999 Grinyer joined TAG McLaren Audio, formed from their purchase of UK audio company Audiolab and designed the F1 series of audio products and components, working with audio designer Graham Landick.

In 2001 Grinyer published a book "Smart Design" by Rotovision that explored the design methods behind a series of consumer products.

Grinyer had been a judge for the UK Design Council Millennium Product in the run up to the start of the 2000 millennium celebrations and in 2001 joined as the first Director of Design and Innovation. Grinyer built a team that included future founder of the UK Government Policy Lab Andrea Siodmok and designer Chris Vanstone. Working with CEO Andrew Summers and fellow Directors Harry Rich, Hilary Cottam, Tamsin Bailey and Ruth Hasnip, a number of radical new initiatives for the Design Council were created including the 24/7 project bringing designers and companies together to transform their understanding and strategic use of design methods and practice. The successful pilots became the Designing Demand project which was reviewed ten years later in the report. The report concluded that "Designing Demand has made real and tangible contributions to the success of the UK economy."

Whilst at the Design Council, Grinyer set up a knowledge strategy to enhance institutional memory after finding an award for knowledge management at the back of a filing cabinet. Andrea Siodmok developed a series of articles authored by designers to deepen the content of a new website as a learning tool for industry and the public. Under Grinyer's successor Richard Eisermann, Andrea and Chris Vanstone and others went on to develop the Double Diamond framework.

In 2003 Grinyer joined mobile telecom company [|Orange] and built a design team working across mobile and web user interfaces, spending a year in Paris at France Telecoms Explocentre, which later became part of Orange Labs.

Grinyer joined the US technology company Cisco in 2008 as part of the Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG). Along with Head of Design Rachel McBrearty, they developed a number of innovative prototypes and pilots including the Cisco Virtual Fashion Mirror Grinyer worked on projects for Manhattan Transit Authority, city authorities in Barcelona Amsterdam and retail and financial service companies.

In 2013 Grinyer joined Barclays Bank in the Design and Innovation Team to run the design team of the Smart Investor platform. Grinyer went on to build Barclay's first service design team. Whilst at Barclays, he became a visiting tutor at the Royal College of Art Service Design Masters course, of which he was appointed Head of Programme in September 2019.

Service Design at the RCA
Grinyer took over as Head of Programme from Nick de Leon who set up the course in 2012. The course reflected the development of the service design discipline, originally taught in Cologne by Prof. Birgit Mager and developed in the UK by pioneering design agencies Livework and Engine.

The course has 170 students, now taught in a one year course to students around the globe and from a variety of design and non design backgrounds. Grinyer set up an archive online archive of the work of the students at the work in progress and final graduation shows and develop a series of Challenge Labs entitled Liveable Planet, Social Impact, Future Finance, Healthcare and Service Futures.

Grinyer developed and leads the RCA Masterclass in Service Design.

Grinyer also set up a You Tube channel showing talks from designers and thinkers, including Lord John Bird and Cat Drew in February 2022.

In March 2023 Grinyer interviewed Geoff Mulgan as part of the In Session RCA talks.

Other Roles
Clive was a trustee of the Royal Society of Arts between 2010 and 2016 Grinyer is Chair of the Design Business Association Design Effectiveness Awards In 2022 Grinyer was appointed to Bosch as part of the User Experience Advisory Board Grinyer was made Visting Professor of Glasgow School or Art in 2009 Grinyer was featured in Creative Review Creative Leaders 50 Clivegrinyer Limited is a design consultancy offering service design and strategic design consultancy services.