Case Studies

We worked with an entrepreneur’s existing video chat software to create a prototype intercom system that earned the attention of major manufacturers.

Rugged, versatile BDAS+ is a breakthrough device that helps first responders rapidly and easily neutralize biological threats.

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.

Ethnographic research uncovered many opportunities to improve everyday life for the visually impaired through Freedom’s family of video magnifiers.

Pacific Cycle’s Mongoose brand had dipped its toe into economy-priced e-scooters for the kids market several years ago. It was a good idea that was too ahead of its time. Their scooter lacked differentiation and was dropped from the product line after disappointing sales.

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.

We redesigned a complex suite of digital data & analytics systems used by the energy industry as a single, coherent Web application with an intuitive UI.

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.

The rugged and waterproof rolling container got an update that made it tougher, more stackable, and more versatile despite tricky manufacturing constraints.

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

The earth’s supply of freshwater is finite. Our population and its demand for water is not. In the U.S., it’s not just the West that’s affected. Longstanding droughts, aging infrastructure and rising demand mean that hundreds of cities and towns are at risk of severe shortages either because of lack of water or unsafe drinking water.

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.

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.

When you’re in the business of laser cutting thick pieces of steel to a high degree of accuracy, it’s critical that your equipment is powerful, precise, fast and reliable while being easy to maintain and operate.

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

We helped FitLinxx, a leading developer of activity monitors and health tracking products, make its first direct-to-consumer product both wearable and fashionable.

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.

This is truly a big, hairy, audacious goal – connect the whole world to the Internet. Provide the half of the world that currently has no access to the digital revolution with a platform to participate, which will spur improvements in the economies, living conditions, healthcare and education of developing countries.