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We want to take a moment to wish you a happy and prosperous new year. This year has been filled with remarkable achievements and exciting advancements in design. In 2023 we expanded our teams and capabilities in design, engineering, digital UX, CMF, 3D Visualization, and project management while redefining the benchmarks of innovation and creativity. As we welcome a brand new year, we’re excited for the opportunities it brings! 2024 holds the promise of fresh beginnings, innovative breakthroughs, and creative endeavors at Tactile. Stay tuned for what’s to come — a new chapter filled with groundbreaking ideas and experiences. Here’s to a year filled with creativity, ingenuity, and boundless opportunities! Happy New Year from all of us at Tactile.

We proudly announce that the ecobee Smart Thermostat Premium has been honored with a prestigious Good Design Award! The Smart Thermostat Premium stands at the forefront of energy-efficient technology, offering cutting-edge functionality and an elegant, intuitive user experience. The Good Design Award accolade reaffirms our dedication to designing products that not only enhance everyday life but also contribute positively to our planet. Click HERE to learn more about all our design collaborations with ecobee. Thank you to our friends at ecobee for your trust and support in allowing Tactile to be your design partner!

Last week the Medical Design Excellence Awards (MDEA) announced the 2022 MDEA winners. We’re excited to announce that Tactile and Kestra Medical Technologies received a bronze award for ASSURE Wearable Cardioverter Defibrillator System (WCD) in the cardiovascular devices category. Since 1998, the MDEA program has honored significant achievements in medical product design and engineering that improve the quality of healthcare delivery and accessibility. It’s an honor to be among the winners that have developed innovative and breakthrough medical products and services. Visit Kestra’s press release for more information about the ASSURE WCD System. Congratulations to the winners and our friends at Kestra!

We’re excited to share we received one more award to add to our 2021 collection. The Chicago Athenaeum awarded ecobee SmartCamera a 2021 Good Design Award in the safety and security category. Visit ecobee on our website to learn more about how we helped develop a design language that ecobee established across their home monitoring products. Kudos to our friends at ecobee!

Last year Tactile partnered with the Michigan Design Council to mentor students participating in the annual Michigan Design Prize competition. Open to all K-12 Michigan students, participants are challenged with coming up with real design solutions to societal issues. Finalists are rewarded by getting paired up with a professional designer to help refine their ideas and bring them to life. Tactile designers teamed up with the following students who each received awards for their designs: Mackenzie Bossory (Homeschool), a gold winner for “Paint-Go-Round”–a timed painting game by switching seats when the timer goes off; Victoria Stokes (Roosevelt Elementary), a silver winner for “Love Birdy Zoom Game”–an interactive game for family and friends; Skylar Hempel, Jada Blue, and Samantha Fenwick (Adlai Stevenson High School), bronze winners for “Isolation Roomz”–a timed obstacle course; and Connor Harrison, Yousif Habsh, and Mario Gjini (Adlai Stevenson High School), silver winners for “Tag Bracelet”–a tag game that uses notifications of who’s “it” on digital bracelets based on six feet proximity between players. It was a great opportunity to offer inspiration and design expertise to the future generation of designers. Congratulations to all the winners!

Let’s raise a glass! 2021 was another whirlwind of a year–we’re grateful for all the opportunities we were a part of and the new relationships we formed. We’re looking forward to all the new and exciting things to come in 2022. From all of us at Tactile, we wish you a very happy, healthy, and prosperous new year.

We spoke too soon–we’re adding one more design award for 2021! Just after the New Year, Tactile was awarded a 2021 IDA Silver Award for the ecobee SmartCamera. Since 2007, the International Design Awards (IDA) has been recognizing and celebrating smart and sustainable multidisciplinary designs. We’re very excited to be on IDA’s list of talented designers for 2021 and congratulations to our friends at ecobee! Click HERE to revisit the ecobee case study on our website.

Tactile is ending 2021 with a bang! We’re excited to announce that the Chicago Athenaeum awarded Opulus Beauty Labs a 2021 Good Design Award. It’s an honor to be among the winners receiving the most prestigious awards recognized around the world. Visit Opulus Beauty Labs on our website to learn more about the design and its groundbreaking innovations. Congratulations to our friends at Opulus Beauty Labs!