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Are you an Industrial Designer with an expertise in color, materials, and finish development for high-end graphics and branding projects? If this is you, we’d love to hear from you. Click here to apply to join our team. We look forward to hearing from you!

We’re looking for a mid to senior level Mechanical Engineer with broad experience in the product design environment to join our team. If this is you, apply here. Look forward to hearing from you!

At last night’s MDEA awards ceremony in New York, Tactile and Ebb Therapeutics received a 2018 MDEA Silver award for Ebb Insomnia Therapy. We’re so honored to be among the winners of the medtech industry’s premier awards program. MDEA recognizes product design and engineering advancements that significantly improve the quality of healthcare delivery and accessibility. Congratulations to the team!

We’re proud to announce the Tektronix 5 Series MSO was recently awarded a 2018 Red Dot Design Award. Internationally recognized and dating back to 1955, Red Dot awards the best product, communication, and concept designs of the year. We’re honored to be among the winners of this year’s competition. Congratulations to Tektronix and the design team!

Today, Tactile is proud to announce we’ve opened a new studio in Boston, Massachusetts. The studio will be led by newly appointed, VP of Design, Rich Hanks. A Massachusetts native, Rich has been a Design Director in the Seattle studio for the past six years and prior to joining Tactile, he worked in-house at Microsoft and Motorola. Why Boston? We specialize in designing tools for professionals in the medical and industrial product industries, so Boston seemed to be the right fit for us to open an additional design studio. Tactile brings a multidisciplinary design approach made up of industrial design, interaction design, and mechanical engineering to the East Coast. Our new studio gets us closer to our current partnerships and gives us an opportunity to connect with the growing Medtech innovation community in Boston. Interested in learning more about Tactile and our new studio? Give us a shout and we’d love to meet up!

Meet ecobee’s latest buzz—the ecobee Switch+. With built-in Amazon Alexa, Switch+ becomes your everyday task assistant to help you go hands-free. Just ask Alexa to turn on/off lights, play music or podcasts, help with everyday tasks, or control other voice-enabled devices in your home. The ecobee Switch+ will be there for you when you need it most. Tactile is proud to have been a part of the design collaboration. Congratulations to ecobee and the design team!

We’re looking for a Junior Industrial Designer to join our team to help design meaningful physical and digital experiences for influential and emerging brands. If you’re interested in learning more or to apply, click here. Hope to hear from you!

Last month Tactile Industrial Designer, Aaron Piazza, presented to Audrey Desjardin’s, a University of Washington (UW) School of Art Assistant Professor, sophomore interaction design class at the UW. Aaron walked through Tactile’s storyboarding process using examples that demonstrated the differences between how we storyboard for user experience, user interface, and industrial design projects. Aaron discussed the level of fidelity of storyboards depending on the feedback you’re looking for, what stage of the project you’re in, and who your audience is—critical elements during the design process. It’s exciting for us to share our process with others and especially, with future designers. Big thanks to Audrey and the UW for the opportunity to offer our design insights!

On February 6 in New York City, Waterpik held an exclusive media event to launch two new products: the Sidekick Water Flosser and the Whitening Water Flosser. Alongside Waterpik, Tactile Design Manager, Jeff Ladwig, helped introduce both product’s design and engineering innovations that are just the beginning of a whole new era of Oral Health Care products. The Sidekick Water Flosser offers all the oral health benefits of a full-sized device, but in an ultra-compact and portable package, making it easy to floss on-the-go. Waterpik’s new Whitening Water Flosser combines patented water flosser and whitening infuser technologies to deliver a gentle whitening agent that’s mixed with water to remove stubborn stains between the teeth and hard-to-reach places. We’re so proud to be a part of the design collaboration!

2017 is behind us and although the holidays are over, we’re looking forward to what’s to come in 2018. Cheers and happy new year from all of us at Tactile!