Advancing The Human Experience
Positively impacting human experience is what gets us out of bed in the morning.
Recognition our work has won for our clients
Human-centred design manifests itself in every element of what we do. As an award-winning ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 13485:2016 design firm established in 1999, Cortex develops products that advance the human experience.
Our clients engage us when they need a flexible, responsive team to augment their internal resources and launch exceptional medical or consumer products.
Manifesto
Everyone at Cortex is a Designer
Great design starts with the ambition to envision a better world. We lead with empathy and are curious, keen observers of those we design for. We judge ourselves by the impact our work has on others.
We work hard to safeguard the physical and emotional health, safety, and comfort of those whose lives we touch. Human-centred design cannot be done behind closed doors, sitting at a computer or with a conversation around a boardroom table. Our partners understand that to create resonant products we need to take the time to understand and engage with those who use our solutions by placing them at the centre of our design process.
Where gaps in care and the market exist, we use our experience and skills to develop novel solutions that are cost effective and achievable, and to push our partners to their next milestone. We are focused on the development of consumer MedTech, particularly new and novel devices targeted for patient-centered use.
Work with empathy
Product design is first and foremost about people. It’s just as important to understand the people who will use your product as it is to understand the technology or how it’s made. People’s lived experiences guide every aspect of our work.
Embrace ambiguity
We’re excited by the unknown. We ask why so we can challenge the status quo. Fuzziness is opportunity. We question assumptions to identify the right constraints. We invent the new to create the current.
Work with resilience
Grit is good. Great ideas don’t always work the first time. If it were easy, it would have been done before. We build, we test, we evaluate and optimize within the constraints of the system.
Work collaboratively
We break down silos between disciplines. Shared context guides our design choices, technical considerations and manufacturing realities. Teamwork ensures we design the right solution for all stakeholders.
Work with agency
We think like owners. We have a bias to action. Speed is our superpower. We propose solutions to things that need fixing without being asked first, and then we follow through. We take pride in owning the outcome and never fail the same way twice.
Careers
Join us!
We founded Cortex Design with a simple motto: People Deserve Better Experiences. This ethos manifests in the work we do for our clients and their users. It also guides our approach to creating a working culture.
Creative collaboration shouldn’t be governed by ego, or whoever has the loudest voice in the room. We believe curiosity, empathy, discovery, and a sense of play are the way to solve real problems and build things worth building.
At Cortex, we work with global clients to create medical and consumer products that simplify and enrich people’s lives. These projects are complex. They haven’t been done before. The team is growing as we advance in our mission.
Our work requires high performers who can deliver exceptional creative and technical work in collaboration with others. More than that, it requires people who come from a wide variety of lived experiences. People who are deeply invested in building things, and building relationships. People who believe in the value of all cultures, who have a keen passion for solving problems, and are comfortable making mistakes.
If you’re one of those people, reach out to us.
