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Phlex: Edge, The Swimmers’ Wearable
Phlex's founders envisioned a fitness tracker for swimmers, by swimmers. They knew firsthand that swimmers have different needs than runners and cyclists.
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Black & Decker: Cordless Mower with Muscle
Insights from design research led to engineering and design features for a new kind of cordless mower that lures gas loyalists and cuts down competition.
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Fiskars: Product Roadmap
Delve built a multi-year roadmap of platforms and correlating new product concepts that would have resonance with both consumers and retailers.
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Victor: A Better Mouse Trap
How do you build a better mouse trap? Get smart. Connectivity enabled Victor® to design a 21st-century solution to a centuries-old problem.
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Lamplight: TIKI Brand Fire Pit
People love sitting around an outdoor fire. In 2018, fire pits were rated as the most popular outdoor design feature by the American Society of Landscape Architects. But there are plenty of things people don’t like – the difficulty of starting a fire, smelling like smoke, and the mess.
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Rachio 3
The Gen 3 device is a step up in capabilities, ease of use, and quality of interactions while remaining true to the brand’s look and feel.
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Ciari: The Ascender
Life on the road is all glamour, right? Well, for those rock gods who don’t have roadies and “people,” traveling with a guitar is a serious pain.
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HelmetFit: Football Helmet Inflation System
HelmetFit's award-winning, intuitive digital-physical user experience makes helmet inflation faster, easier, safer, and more precise.
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Not Impossible Labs
A whirlwind product development journey led to a thrilling launch for an IoT "surround-body" wearable that uses haptics to create an immersive experience.
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PetSafe: Smart Dog Collar
The PetSafe smart dog collar debuts a new visual brand language for PetSafe that complements a compact, sleek, and contoured profile, designed to please both dogs and their humans.
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Rachio: Generation 2 Smart Sprinkler Controller
We worked with a Colorado-based startup to take their first-generation IoT product and redesign it for lower cost, larger volumes and better performance.
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Temptu Air: At Home Airbrushing
Three disciplines worked in lock step to develop Temptu Air, the first all-in-one airbrushing device that makes applying foundation anywhere quick and easy.
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Nielsen-Kellerman: Rowers’ Rugged Megaphone
Delve’s engineers put the rigor into rugged for a superlative megaphone that stands up to rowers’ abuse.
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AlpineReplay: Trace Action Sports Tracker
To make Trace an indestructible connected device, we developed rugged hardware that withstands wet, hot, sandy, freezing, icy, and vibratory conditions.
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Fellowes Branded Air Purifiers
Delve created a line of air purifiers designed to showcase and strengthen Fellowes’s longstanding brand values.
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Aqua Products: Pool Cleaning Robot
Delve reinvented Aqua Products’ jet-propelled pool cleaner and had it ready for tooling in just three and a half months.
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Bruvelo: App-Connected Coffeemaker
Delve developed a simple, intuitive UI that cloaks Bruvelo’s complexity from the groggy, early-morning user.
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Ventev: Portable Battery Chargers
Delve developed a visual brand language to set Ventev’s mobile device chargers apart from its competitors.
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Freedom Scientific: Low Vision Solutions
Ethnographic research uncovered many opportunities to improve everyday life for the visually impaired through Freedom’s family of video magnifiers.
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Pacific Cycle: REACT Scooter
Pacific Cycle wanted to get back in the kids market with an economical e-scooter targeted to 8-12-year-olds who would use as more of a toy than transportation.
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Fenix International: ReadyPay Solar Home System
In Africa, more than 80 percent of households lack access to energy. The lack of light and power is a roadblock to economic and societal development, limiting the ability to work, study, and communicate digitally.
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Central Garden & Pet
Two novel products from Delve and Central Garden changed the way herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers are packaged, stored, and applied.
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Perlick: Refrigerator/Freezer Product Platform
Perlick, a leading manufacturer of commercial and residential refrigeration, wanted to offer a complete in-home luxury kitchen appliance suite. They identified an opportunity to add a new column refrigerator/freezer product platform as part of their residential strategy.
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Speedbox Rugged Modular Container System
The rugged and waterproof rolling container got an update that made it tougher, more stackable, and more versatile despite tricky manufacturing constraints.
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Kid Trax: Rideamals
Kid Trax makes super-cool play versions of farm and construction equipment, sports cars, police cars, motorcycles, trucks, dune buggies … you name it. But what about a ride-on animal?
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SafetyNet: Payment Security Insurance
"Delve helped deepen our knowledge about design thinking and prototyping the customer’s needs/preferences, which is paying high dividends in quickly building our customer base." Dan Kaiser, President, SafetyNet
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Connected Faucet
Water scarcity as a major threat to national security. Good news: If all U.S. households installed water-saving features, water use would decrease by 30 percent.
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Leggett & Platt: Presto Bed Frame
Buying a mattress has been a predictable experience for the last 50-plus years – go to a mattress or furniture store, choose your mattress and bed frame, and have the store’s delivery service bring it to your home and set it up for you.
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SPI: CLEANCut
Delve reconfigured CLEANCut for mass appeal with a lower price, sleeker and more versatile look, and much improved usability.
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Most of us have fond childhood memories of tooling around the neighborhood on our bikes with friends. For children with physical disabilities, that experience is too often out of reach.
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Onelink® Smoke & CO Detector
First Alert engaged us to develop a fresh aesthetic that would communicate their latest technology in an appropriate premium-design statement.
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FitLinxx: AmpStrip™
We helped FitLinxx, a leading developer of activity monitors and health tracking products, make its first direct-to-consumer product both wearable and fashionable.
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Spectrum: Global Batteries Division Innovation Strategy
Looking for an injection of energy for its new product development group, the Global Batteries Unit leadership asked Delve to lead the group in a “learn by doing” project.
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First Alert: Onelink® Connected Safe
No more forgotten codes or lost keys. First Alert’s Onelink connected safe enables users to manage the protection of their valuables with a smart phone app.
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LINKA: Smart Bike Lock
It’s estimated that 1.5 million bikes are stolen every year and FBI statistics show that bicycle theft is on the rise.
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Fanimation: Ceiling Fan Concepts
Fanimation was looking for concept designs to inspire a vision for future product line additions that could grow their business within both the specialty and big-box retail channels.
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Remington HyperFlex charging base
In the midst of developing its award-winning Remington HyperFlex Series of shavers, Spectrum Brands brought us in to engineer a portable charging base.
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Harley-Davidson: Buell Blast
While Harley continues a century-long romance with motorcyclists, research showed that younger potential buyers think sportbikes and cruisers are difficult to drive, expensive, and intimidating.
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Bontrager: Oracle Helmet
Bontrager produces bike components, accessories and apparel. They challenged us to create a high-quality, lightweight, adjustable fit system with a compelling aesthetic to match their sleek helmet design.
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Trek: Lime Bicycle
A learn/do project with Trek helped its team gather insights that informed a bike design for a new market.
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Wilson Sporting Goods: nCode Triad Racquet
Wilson Sporting Goods enlisted our help to develop a new, distinct visual appearance for Wilson’s 3rd-generation Triad tennis racquet product line.
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Wilson Sporting Goods: Shock FX Catcher and Umpire Helmets
For decades, a padded face mask has been standard baseball equipment. They provide little protection for anything other than direct facial impact, but they’re what catchers and umpires are used to wearing.
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Lamplight: TIKI® Brand Glowing Torch
Seeking to add the ambient glow of LED lighting to its signature TIKI® torch products, Lamplight engaged their offshore manufacturer to engineer a new line of products.
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