VITALITI Tricorder wins Epic Innovator Prize at XPRIZE Awards
Cortex’s Client CloudDX is featured in the HuffPost Video series Now What hosted by Ryan Duffy! In this video (filmed at our head office!), Dr. Sonny Kohli (Chief Medical Officer of CloudDX), recounts a life-changing trip to Haiti that inspired him to take action. Along with a small bioengineering company, he set out on a…
Outsourced Manufacturing “Welcome to the Design to Product Podcast! In this interview episode, we talked to Dylan Horvath about saving cost and time with outsourced manufacturing. Dylan Horvath is the founder and president of Cortex Design, a product design + manufacturing firm. Dylan talked about common mistakes of product builders and innovators that drive up timelines and…
Awesome products deserve to be appreciated, so as an exercise we put together a quick list of some of our favourite product designs — both past and present — to try to get at what makes a product great. It’s something we think about a lot at Cortex: why do some products fail to resonate,…
When developing new products, most founders focus on the impact of the technology. They recognize it needs to be “usable” for users and that gets stated as a priority. Through the development and commercialization process, the user experience is often de-prioritized due to other priorities such as human resources, budget, or time constraints and/or a…
Cortex Design uses 3D printing to rapidly prototype hardware ideas in a physical form. Our in-house Objet polyjet 3D printer allows us to quickly print parts that could cost hundreds or thousands of dollars with subtractive CNC prototyping methods. It’s exciting technology, and it’s easy to understand why startups and Fortune 500 companies alike think…
There are Design Controls, and then there are Human-Centered Design Controls. Both fulfill the baseline regulatory and risk management requirements necessary to prove a device is safe and effective. The difference? A human-centred approach elevates standard ‘user needs’ beyond basic compliance, ensuring the final product truly resonates with and optimizes the experience for the people…