ISO 13485 audit – ZERO major corrective actions + ZERO minor corrective actions Only one area of improvement was suggested in our recent audit. Our auditor really valued our customized naming conventions as they more accurately describe what we do in each of those areas and suggested that we should ask our certification body…
For Cortex Design, the past 16 months have been focused on embracing bold decisions and rapid growth, building and empowering our team, and setting our company and our collaborators up for success by reevaluating the way that we engage; our flexibility, adaptability, and the value that we bring to each partnership. A large part of…
Cortex Design receives the Autodesk Excellence Award for our rapid COVID-19 diagnostic, developed for Raytheon in collaboration with a team of world-class companies. COVID-19 testing is a critical tool for the global community to fight the spread of the virus. Testing has also faced a host of persistent challenges: lab-based PCR tests are accurate, but…
Cortex Design has won six International Design Awards (IDA), including three gold awards and three silver awards in the product design category. Cortex is pleased to announce that Lumatone, UVC Buddy and the Fusion Vision System have won big accolades in the 15th annual International Design Awards (IDA). This represents major recognition of…
Cortex has partnered with a group of organizations including Raytheon BBN Technologies, Purdue University, LaDuca LLC and PortaScience on a new COVID-19 point of care test kit. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, we’ve been looking for opportunities to bring our skills to bear and get involved. Now, Cortex is proud to announce we’re…
The Association of Chartered Industrial Designers of Ontario (ACIDO) has just announced their annual Rocket Competition winners — including Cortex’s sponsored award! For the past 19 years, the ACIDO Rocket Competition has recognized the best work from Ontario’s graduating class of industrial designers. In addition to helping judge the competition, Cortex provides a special award…
We’re happy to share a big announcement from the team: Cortex has passed our ISO 9001:2015 Surveillance Audit – remotely! Last year, Cortex announced a big step forward: ISO 9001:2015 certification. This was the result of a deep analysis of our processes in everything we do. We dove deep into our playbook, identified gaps between…
On December 13th, Cortex President Dylan Horvath spoke at TEDx McMaster U in Hamilton about the immense possibilities of product design to improve human potential — and the pictures and videos are up and ready to share! Speaking alongside a lineup from fields as varied as MedTech, conservation science and race car driving, Dylan addressed…
Big things are happening with Lumatone, the isomorphic keyboard – a Cortex passion project that’s taking on a big life of its own. Cortex went down to the annual NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) show in Anaheim for the launch of the Lumatone – a game-changing isomorphic keyboard with roots in the experimental music…
Today we’re proud to announce that Cortex has officially received our ISO 9001:2015 Certification! At Cortex, we’ve spent the past several years distilling our mission and goals into a core statement: we develop human-centred products that improve people’s lives. Based on empathy-led ethnographic research, we visualize human experiences, design products to enable those experiences, and…