In 2015 the Voltera V-One team became the first Canadian winner of the international James Dyson Award, a prestigious engineering design competition judged by the British inventor.

Spark — creator of the Spark Award — is first and foremost a community of designers and creative people, bound together by the idea that Design can make significant, positive changes in the world and help make it better. The way we promote this Good Design is through the annual organization of international design competitions,…

While performing ethnographic research, how can designers minimize bias and ensure the credibility of their findings to inform impactful and inclusive design choices? This article explores the complexities of ethnographic research, in a design context, identifying biases and providing practical strategies to avoid them. What is Ethnography? Ethnography — a qualitative methodology — takes an…

Some awesome news to wrap up 2019: we’re proud to announce that Cortex clients Cloud DX and AceAge have been selected as part of Canada’s first Amazon Alexa accelerator cohort. Both companies won entrance to Canada’s first and only Amazon-collaborated business accelerator after entering a nation-wide competition. This new program, run by the Accelerator Centre…