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Into Gear
Our friends at Shift Labs are going places: Tech Crunch reported that Shift has officially launched out of the venerable Y Combinator this Spring as “the Nest of medical devices.” Tactile collaborated with Beth, Koji and the founding team on the DripAssist infusion pump last year, and we’re excited to see them continue to disrupt the medical device model within emerging markets.
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Supersketcher
We’re thrilled to have Carson back again after a brief stint at Tactile in the Fall—and after she completed her South American travels. She is a versatile industrial designer with great insight into user personas and appropriate form. Learn more about Carson and her passions.
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Clearly Intelligent
We continue our design collaboration with Clarisonic (owned by L’Oreal) with the Smart Profile, a professional-grade sonic cleansing brush. Tactile worked with the engineering and marketing teams to amplify existing brand elements with upgraded materials and thoughtful interaction points.
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Sitting in Motion
Tactile was pleased to take part in a special design effort for the Closing Party of the 2014 Seattle Design Festival. Herman Miller donated 10 Eames rocking chairs (fitting the Design in Motion theme of the festival) for local design firms to customize, then auctioned them off to benefit youth creative organization Sawhorse Revolution. The Tactile design team went for a classic mahatma dot pattern beloved by the Eames’, accented with a gold frame and dark-stained rockers. Our chair went home with the NBBJ Architecture crew—but perhaps we’ll reproduce one to decorate our studio…
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New Kids on the Block
They’re back! Once an intern and a contractor, respectively, ace industrial designers Heman Au and Ben Mabry have joined the Tactile team full–time. They have jumped right into CMF, med–tech and avionics projects with gusto—and we no longer remember life without them. Welcome, Heman and Ben.
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Another win!
We are thrilled to announce that Tactile won two 2013 Bronze International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) from the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA). Characteristic of Tactile, the awards celebrate work in diverse disciplines: concept development and usability research for a global health product (Intellectual Ventures Lab’s “Cold Chain” device), and full product redesign for the Liposonix Body Contouring System. They also represent Tactile’s growing engagement in the fields of med–tech and global good—and it seems we’re on a roll. Read more about Liposonix here or Intellectual Ventures here.
