It’s one thing to practice design in your home city with the materials and culture that you’re used to, but it’s an entirely different thing to work in a completely new environment. It can be instructive: How much does our design thinking depend on our familiarity with a North American environment? What happens if we…
If the tech world was a baseball game, the rules would change every time a new player stepped onto the field, a seasoned pitcher unveiled a new pitch, or a spectator entered the stadium. That’s basically how we won $100,000 + $5.4 million in R&D for the XPRIZE we’d already been disqualified for. Here’s how…
Heads up hardware startups; I am a panelist at two upcoming Design for Manufacturing Summits in Brooklyn NY Oct 6 2016 and Toronto Nov 3 2016.
Design Kit: The Course for Human-Centred Design is a seven-week curriculum that introduces you to the concepts of human-centered design and how this approach can be used to create innovative, effective, and sustainable solutions for social change. Working in teams of 2-6 people, we learned this design process by applying it to one of three…
Cortex’s Client CloudDX is featured in the HuffPost Video series Now What hosted by Ryan Duffy! In this video (filmed at our head office!), Dr. Sonny Kohli (Chief Medical Officer of CloudDX), recounts a life-changing trip to Haiti that inspired him to take action. Along with a small bioengineering company, he set out on a…