Turning complex ideas into tangible digital products.
Inspirespace helps founders, startups, and innovation teams shape ideas into prototypes, products, and digital experiences. Strategy, design, and technology, working as one.
One integrated partner covering strategy, design, build, and launch
Get from rough idea to MVP, prototype, or launch-ready experience
Made for founders, startups, and teams who need to make progress visible
Years of experience across industry, research, and startups, shaping ideas into real things.
One integrated practice from rough concept to launch-ready digital experience.
Studio covering product design, digital tools, interactive systems, and visual storytelling.
One practice, from first sketch to launch.
Getting a product built usually means stitching together agencies. Strategy, design, development, brand, each one a new handoff and a new chance to lose the plot. Inspirespace brings them into one practice, so the thread holds from first sketch to launch.
Shape the direction
Before a line of code gets written, the opportunity gets framed, the audience gets understood, and the product gets scoped. The right questions asked first, so the expensive surprises don't come later.
Make it tangible
Turn the idea into something testable. Interactive prototypes, proof-of-concepts, focused MVPs. Artifacts that let stakeholders react to an actual thing instead of a slide deck.
Ready for launch
Ship a polished product that looks and feels like it came from a studio three times the size. Interfaces, websites, brand assets, documentation, photography. Everything cohesive, because everything came from one place.
Selected work.
Mission-critical platforms, data-heavy applications, visual web experiences. Work spanning industry, research, and commerce, united by one goal: making ideas clearer, more tangible, more compelling.
Drone connectivity 3D visualization and analytics app to enable safe drone operations
Web app for safe beyond-visual-line-of-sight drone operations — 3D visualization and analytics that predict cellular-network connectivity parameters.
CraftYourMap — personalized cartographic art store
Online configurator and e-commerce store where customers personalize contour-line artwork based on topographic maps and order custom posters.
Alpenblick summit visualizer – experience Austrian great Alps' viewshed
Interactive web experience that lets visitors see the reach of each Austrian summit — a viewshed computation for every peak in the country.
Inspirespace mood board – privacy by design with a pervasive experience
A web app for arranging inspirational images on an infinite zoomable canvas. Images live locally in your browser — no login, no server.
Senior experience, direct access.
This isn't a junior team learning on your project. The studio is built on 19 years of senior work, spanning a design director role at IBM iX, engineering leadership at Dimetor shipping mission-critical drone connectivity products, expert advisory at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, and research published at CHI, the top-tier HCI conference. The same judgment that operated inside those organizations now operates on your project.
That means strategy, design, engineering, and production owned by one person who has done each part before. AI tooling amplifies the output, so it holds its own against studios three times the size. The form it takes depends on the project: a concept, a working prototype, a focused MVP, a web experience, a launch-ready product, or the photography, documentation, and presentation assets that make the story land.
Good product work isn't about building fast. It's about making the right thing real early enough to learn, decide, and improve.
Range across design, technology, and experience.
Depending on the project, the work combines different skills, media, and production modes. Always in service of a stronger product and a clearer experience.
Built by Ulrich Lehner.
Ulrich Lehner founded Inspirespace after 19 years building products across industry, research, and startups. The studio brings strategy, design, engineering, and production into one practice, to help ambitious ideas become tangible and convincing.
Before Inspirespace, Ulrich led engineering at Dimetor, where he shipped mission-critical drone connectivity products. Earlier roles include Associate Design Director at IBM iX and expert advisor at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. His thesis was published at CHI, the top-tier HCI conference.
Have an idea that needs to become tangible?
Whether you are exploring a new product, refining a concept, or preparing something for launch, Inspirespace can help turn it into something people can see, use, and understand.
Start a conversation →Available for selected collaborations in product design, prototyping, and digital experience work.