New medical technology that works in a lab has a long road to travel to commercial success. To bridge this gap, designers work alongside researchers to ensure that new devices are not only technically sound but also practical, user-friendly, and commercially successful by design. Safe and Effective Does Not Mean Commercially Successful Medical device founders…
For Cortex Design, the past 16 months have been focused on embracing bold decisions and rapid growth, building and empowering our team, and setting our company and our collaborators up for success by reevaluating the way that we engage; our flexibility, adaptability, and the value that we bring to each partnership. A large part of…
Cortex Design receives the Autodesk Excellence Award for our rapid COVID-19 diagnostic, developed for Raytheon in collaboration with a team of world-class companies. COVID-19 testing is a critical tool for the global community to fight the spread of the virus. Testing has also faced a host of persistent challenges: lab-based PCR tests are accurate, but…
Product design for medical devices or consumer health tech can be a daunting — and treacherous — climb. Here’s how road mapping can minimize the risk! Suppose there’s a medical startup developing a game-changing medical device. After a seed round, the company budgets $1.2 million for product development over 12 months. Their team debates whether…
“I get challenged by investors who say, ‘how are you going to change the stigma?’ If nobody does it, it won’t change. We have to get over that hurdle,” says Rachel Bartholomew, founder of HyIvy Health. On the blog, we’re interviewing FemTech leaders about their experiences in the industry. The goal is to start conversations…
“We need to add more pleasure to the world. Especially now,” says Melanie Derwin, founder of Serenity Productions. Women’s health and wellness doesn’t always get a lot of attention from the hardware community — be it from designers, investors, or the press. For too long, a host of women’s health and wellness issues have gone…
How the Cosm team is using human-centric design to improve outcomes for a disease that affects one in four women — and one you’ve probably never heard of. Suppose there’s a disease that will affect up to one in eight people on earth over the course of their lifetimes. This disease has a major impact…
Cortex Design has won six International Design Awards (IDA), including three gold awards and three silver awards in the product design category. Cortex is pleased to announce that Lumatone, UVC Buddy and the Fusion Vision System have won big accolades in the 15th annual International Design Awards (IDA). This represents major recognition of…
In the world of highly-calibrated, fluid-based diagnostics, human-centric design can be the difference between a product that succeeds and one that fails. At every scale and in every kind of product, there are opportunities for designers to improve outcomes by thinking deeply about the human. This is true whether you’re designing large, complex machinery or…
Last year we wrote about how Cortex client AceAge was selected for Amazon’s inaugural Alexa Accelerator Cohort. Now, we’re proud to announce that AceAge has secured Series A funding! AceAge’s flagship product, Karie, is a medication dispenser and personal health companion with huge possibilities for care inside the home and institutional settings. Karie uses preorganized…
A Guide for Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and C-Suite Executives. Let’s play out a scenario that might be familiar to you: your business has tasked you with building a product you’ve never done before. In fact, your company has never done anything like this before. You need to tell your boss or your stakeholders how…
A new eBook from Cortex, distilling 20 years of manufacturing experience into actionable advice for entrepreneurs and product champions. The hardware world is too used to seeing manufacturing as the last step of the product development process. Manufacturing comes at the end, so it should be the last thing you plan, right? You identify a…
Cortex has partnered with a group of organizations including Raytheon BBN Technologies, Purdue University, LaDuca LLC and PortaScience on a new COVID-19 point of care test kit. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, we’ve been looking for opportunities to bring our skills to bear and get involved. Now, Cortex is proud to announce we’re…
The Association of Chartered Industrial Designers of Ontario (ACIDO) has just announced their annual Rocket Competition winners — including Cortex’s sponsored award! For the past 19 years, the ACIDO Rocket Competition has recognized the best work from Ontario’s graduating class of industrial designers. In addition to helping judge the competition, Cortex provides a special award…
We’re happy to share a big announcement from the team: Cortex has passed our ISO 9001:2015 Surveillance Audit – remotely! Last year, Cortex announced a big step forward: ISO 9001:2015 certification. This was the result of a deep analysis of our processes in everything we do. We dove deep into our playbook, identified gaps between…