Nathan
Waterhouse

Design strategist helping organisations navigate complexity through human-centered approaches.

Adaptive Edge →

My consultancy helping organisations and leaders thrive in uncertainty through systems thinking, design, and AI.

The Adaptive Edge

Weekly insights on strategy, leadership, and organisational change.

As Good As

Personal essays on living well with Ankylosing Spondylitis.

Past work & talks →

Design portfolio, TEDx talk, speaking engagements, and writing from my time at IDEO and OpenIDEO (2010–2017).

Things I build to understand something, not to sell it. Most run in the browser. All are unfinished by design.

Systems Explorer

An interactive map for teaching systems thinking. How organisational systems connect and push back.

Generative Ambient Music

Built with my son Archie for his EPQ on maths in music. Four algorithmic sound worlds, all in the browser.

Markov Chain Chords

From the same project with Archie. A chord generator that learns transitions from real progressions.

Mathematical Music Composer

Archie's EPQ piece. Euclidean rhythms, Fibonacci structures and human-made chords, combined into one composition.