Insights & Strategy

Intensive research and real-time prototyping led to an integrated digital-physical redesign that makes rapid screening technology more accessible.

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.

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.

HelmetFit's award-winning, intuitive digital-physical user experience makes helmet inflation faster, easier, safer, and more precise.

Delve helped BK Ultrasound bundle its game-changing technology into a widely adopted, easy to use, award-winning medical device.

Delve identified the best technology fit for Master Lock to bridge the gap between physical and digital, and to claim the edge in this new-to-them category.

Delve’s engineers put the rigor into rugged for a superlative megaphone that stands up to rowers’ abuse.

Delve’s research drove a technical solution that ended up disrupting the electronic locks market for the hospitality industry.

Delve developed a revolutionary analytical platform that shifts the paradigm of pathogen testing in diagnostics, food safety, and bioterror.

Delve developed a new scalpel that skirts competitors’ overly broad patents and keeps costs low.

Delve developed a visual brand language to set Ventev’s mobile device chargers apart from its competitors.

Delve has completed over a dozen major projects for one of the top biologic products in the world. Our work ranged from product design, service design, ethnographic research, channel investigation, and journey mapping.

In Africa, more than 80 percent of households lack access to energy. Many people light their homes with homemade candles and kerosene lamps that are dangerous and smoky, causing house fires and respiratory problems. The lack of light and power is also a roadblock to economic and societal development, limiting the ability to work, study, and communicate digitally.

Two novel products from Delve and Central Garden changed the way herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers are packaged, stored, and applied.

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.

Despite an uptick in the economy in recent years, many people still live paycheck to paycheck.

For many women with Accidental Bowel Leakage (ABL), the loss of bowel control becomes the controlling force in their lives.

For many adults who haven’t ridden a bike for decades, getting back on the saddle isn’t “just like riding a bike.” It’s intimidating and more than a little embarrassing to wobble around the bike store parking lot. Shifting gears, hand brakes, aerodynamic seats and low handlebars aren’t exactly the easy joy many people remember from childhood.

An agricultural equipment manufacturer chose us to create a powerful new aesthetic for an existing product line of utility terrain vehicles (UTVs) to open up new business opportunities for their company.

Wilson Sporting Goods, a worldwide-leader in sports equipment, selected us to design a tennis racket stringing machine that would revolutionize the industry by paying unprecedented attention to the comfort and positioning of the user.