DDSTUDIO Wins Core77 Award!

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DDSTUDIO Recognized by Core77 Design Awards

Awards honor the global design profession and its practitioners

 SOLANA BEACH, CA – DDSTUDIO, a human-centered design firm in Southern California, today announced it has been honored by the Core77 Design Awards for what jurists said was its “outstanding execution, insight, creativity and intent” on the design of Nicoya’s Alto Digital SPR System. The fully-automated benchtop surface plasmon resonance (SPR) system measures the interactions between molecules in real-time.

The annual Core77 Design Awards, now in their 9th year, celebrate the richness of the global design profession, as well as the insight and perseverance of its practitioners. Core77 awards are given in 18 categories to a select few of more than 1,000 entries. In the Commercial Equipment category, which included hundreds of finalists, DDSTUDIO’s work was honored alongside Starbucks and Philips Experience Design.

“It’s great to be recognized by Core77 and its panel of industry experts for creating a stunning human-centered brand language to support Nicoya’s transformative technology,” said DDSTUDIO Chief Charles Curbbun. “Together we designed a purposeful instrument that improves life,” Curbbun said.

The Alto System offers life science researchers a sleek, benchtop tool representative of its futuristic technology. DDSTUDIO designed a striking instrument that augments existing workflows and has an intuitive experience for all users, empowering them to focus completely on the task at hand.

DDSTUDIO is now eligible for the Core77 Community Choice Award, which is determined by the public’s selection of its favorite from among all the Core77 honorees. To learn more about the award, visit Core77’s list of honorees, or click directly to DDSTUDIO’s honoree page to cast your vote. Voting is open through July 7.

About DDSTUDIO
Founded by Charles Curbbun in 1984, DDSTUDIO is Southern California’s premier design firm. DDSTUDIO creates designs that improve lives through its work in multiple industries, including med tech, transportation, casino gaming, and other emerging technologies. DDSTUDIO’s commitment to human-centered design (aligning the multidiscipline team on a product solution in the context of the user’s day-to-day experiences), consistently delivered a differentiated, aesthetically desirable, award-winning product solution. For more information, visit www.DDSTUDIO.com

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DDSTUDIO’s design for iLux® wins Gold MDEA

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Tear Film Innovations’ iLux® Dry Eye Treatment System fits in the palm of the hand and has a simple user interface, allowing patients to be treated effectively in a medical office

 CARLSBAD – DDSTUDIO, a human-centered design firm in Southern California, today announced it has been awarded a gold 2019 Medical Design Excellence Award for iLux® Dry Eye Treatment System. The award recognizes product design and engineering that improves the quality of health care delivery and accessibility. Winners of the MDEA were announced during an awards reception at the annual MD&M East Conference in New York City on June 11.

The visually striking iLux system is designed to fit in the palm of an eye care professional’s (ECP) hand and uses light-based heat energy to provide both physicians and patients with a quick, easy and affordable treatment for a prevalent form of dry eye known as Meibomian Gland Dysfunction (MGD).  More than 100 million people worldwide are afflicted with MGD, a painful condition that erodes one of the three tear films protecting the eye.

“It’s great to receive recognition for this human-centered bridge to a new and enabling technology,” said DDSTUDIO CEO Charles Curbbun. “Our client, Tear Film Innovations, embraced ergonomic design and high image throughout the development process. The iLux becomes an extension of the ECP’s hand, allowing full focus to be directed on treating the patient’s dry eye,” Curbbun said.

The elegant, reduced-sculptural look of iLux is paired with an uncomplicated user interface.

Tear Film enlisted DDSTUDIO to design a product that would be delightful at every touch point, from out of the box, to set up, treatment, charging and cleaning. The project included development of the product’s visual brand language.

DDSTUDIO’s design team incorporated input from ECPs and patients to develop a first-of-its-kind solution: A handheld device with an integrated magnifying lens, one-button control of heating and compression and a removable-tip applicator.

The device’s simple lines are maintained with smooth and seamless transitions across materials. The illuminated magnifying lens that is integrated into the handpiece allows an ECP to view and treat the tiny glands that line the patient’s eyelids.

DDSTUDIO’s work has been repeatedly recognized with MDEA awards, including a record three awards in 2018.

A record win for DDSTUDIO with three Medical Design Excellence Awards at MD&M East

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DDSTUDIO, whose human-centered design work focuses on the end user in context, congratulated clients InfoBionic®, Hologic® and IntelliGuard® for each winning a Medical Design Excellence Award (MDEA) Tuesday, 6/12/2018, at the Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) East conference in New York City. The awards recognize design and engineering that improves the quality of health care delivery and accessibility.

Only once before has a design firm had three client products named as finalists in one year for the prestigious award.

“All three of these very different devices were designed to fit seamlessly into the user’s life or workflow, which is the essence of DDSTUDIO’s human-centered design process,” said Charles Curbbun, DDSTUDIO’s chief executive. “Each device delivers cutting-edge technology that is transformative in its own category.”

  • InfoBionic’s MoMe® Kardia System, a wearable, ambulatory cardiac monitoring system designed for users with transient symptoms of arrhythmia, won a gold award in the Cardiovascular Device category. Its sleek, unobtrusive design allows it to be worn comfortably and correctly all day, without interrupting the user’s routine or activities. It provides reliable, detailed data that doctors can access when they want, allowing for real- time diagnosis. In January, the market-shifting MoMe® won a Good Design.

  • Hologic’s Panther Fusion® won a bronze award in the Testing and Diagnostic Products and Systems category. The modular, field upgrade to Hologic’s fully automated Panther system combines PCR and TMA molecular testing on a single platform designed for intuitive operation, enhancing a laboratory’s flexibility and amplifying productivity.

  • IntelliGuard’s Linked Visibility Inventory System™, (LVIS™), won a bronze award in the Nonsurgical Hospital Supplies and Equipment category, is the first real-time medication management system that operates at the point of care. Designed for the anesthesiology team working in a hectic operating room, it uses patented RFID technology to track medication uses as they occur and manage regulatory and narcotics control, while ensuring expiration and recall issues are properly dispatched, all out of sight from the point of care. LVIS™ won a Good Design Award earlier this year.

“Normally you wouldn’t think design would matter for a product used by anesthesiologist in the OR, but we thought it is important to prioritize both form and function to improve workflows,” said Gordon Krass, IntelliGuard’s CEO. “I would like to thank DDSTUDIO for their creative work on the Linked Visibility Inventory System™ (LVIS™) and the Medical Design Excellence Awards committee for this honor.”

The awards are judged by an impartial, multidisciplinary panel of expert jurors comprised of a balance of clinicians, engineers, and designers.

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DDSTUDIO Congratulates Medical Design Excellence Award Finalists

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Congratulations to DDSTUDIO clients Hologic®, IntelliGuard® and InfoBionic® for being named finalists for a Medical Design Excellence Award (MDEA), the medtech industry’s prestigious honor recognizing design and engineering that improves the quality of health care delivery and accessibility.

“What these three finalists’ devices have in common is that their form function – the shape, layout, packaging, and aesthetic – are focused on the user’s perspective in context,” said Charles Curbbun, DDSTUDIO’s chief executive.

“DDSTUDIO’s human-centered design process ensures that our client’s cutting-edge technology can be encased in a solution that’s based on needs, not design preference,” Curbbun said.  “The result is transformative design that fits seamlessly into the user’s life or workflow.”

  • Hologic’s Panther Fusion® is nominated for the award in the Testing and Diagnostic Products and Systems category. The modular, field upgrade to Hologic’s fully automated Panther system combines PCR and TMA molecular testing on a single platform designed for intuitive operation, enhancing a laboratory’s flexibility and amplifying productivity.
  • InfoBionic’s MoMe® Kardia System, a wearable, ambulatory cardiac monitoring system designed for users with transient symptoms of arrhythmia, is nominated in the Cardiovascular Device category. Its sleek, unobtrusive design allows it to be worn comfortably and correctly all day, without interrupting the user’s routine or activities. It provides reliable, detailed data that doctors can access when they want, allowing for real- time diagnosis. In January, the market-shifting MoMe® won a Good Design
  • IntelliGuard’s Linked Visibility Inventory System™, (LVIS™), a finalist in the Nonsurgical Hospital Supplies and Equipment category, is the first real-time medication management system that operates at the point of care. Designed for the anesthesiology team working in a hectic operating room, it uses patented RFID technology to track medication uses as they occur and manage regulatory and narcotics control, while ensuring expiration and recall issues are properly dispatched, all out of sight from the point of care. LVIS™ won a Good Design Award earlier this year.

MDEA winners will be named at the awards ceremony June 12, at the MD&M East conference in New York City. Good luck to everyone and we look forward to seeing you in New York.

DDSTUDIO Design Thinking Approach Nets GOOD DESIGN® 2016 Awards for 3 Clients

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BioXP 3200 System, Orison Tower and Panel, and Hoist Mi6 Home Gym Selected for Design Excellence

SAN DIEGO (15 December 2016) – San Diego Experience Design firm DDSTUDIO has been recognized by GOOD DESIGN® for design excellence that goes beyond the product by looking at the human experience. Three innovations representing a diverse community were each awarded a 2016 GOOD DESIGN® Award: SGI-DNA’s BioXP 3200 System, Orison Tower and Orison Panel, and the Hoist Mi6 Home Gym.

The GOOD DESIGN Awards showcase the Experience Design process applied to each DDSTUDIO collaboration that puts the human experience front and center. DDSTUDIO approaches each client challenge from the ground, applying tools from Design Thinking and Lean Start-Up techniques to quickly originate concepts, user-test, iterate and refine. The DDSTUDIO process reveals human behavior and emotion then integrates context and workflow into the product/service journey to create outstanding experiences.

“We have the best jobs in the world. Each day we get to bring our clients’ visions and dreams to life,” says Charles Curbbun, Chief. “We are honored that these three projects have been recognized by GOOD DESIGN. Each represents a best-in-class solution for its category.”

The Winning Designs

Synthetic Genomics BioXp™ 3200 System

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Synthetic Genomics commercialized DNA division sought to democratize the gene assembly process, allowing labs to build their own genes de novo in-house. The ground-breaking result was the BioXp™ 3200 System, the world’s first DNA printer, a machine allowing any biotechnology company or academic laboratory to create genes on their benchtop hands-free, starting with electronically transmitted sequence data. Read more about this award.

Orison Energy’s Tower and Panel

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Orison Energy’s Tower and Panel Store energy and intelligently power a home or business with the first ever plug-and-play solution. Whether energy comes from the grid or solar, users can control when to store it and when to use it. Orison Founder and CEO Eric Clifton was keenly focused on the human aspect for his revolutionary battery energy storage solution and asked DDSTUDIO to help him bring that vision to life. The result is the first home battery system that simply plugs in and stores energy that can be used later for less cost. Read more about this award.

Hoist Mi6 Home Gym

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Hoist and DDSTUDIO have collaborated on many commercial and consumer fitness products for more than 15 years. The Hoist Mi6 Home Gym, represents the innovation excellence, aesthetic appeal and quality that today’s consumers demand for in-home products. This gym provides a complete range of functional training exercises designed to obtain maximum results and achieve a strong and versatile body. The Mi6 is engineered to build multiple muscle groups through smooth, rhythmic, and continuous movements that support the body as it moves through life. Read more about this award.

About the GOOD DESIGN Awards

Founded in Chicago in 1950, GOOD DESIGN® remains the oldest, prestigious, and most recognized program for design excellence worldwide.

“This year’s historic 66th Good Design program,” states Christian Narkiewicz-Laine, Museum President, The Chicago Athenaeum, “recognizes the work of thousands of designers and manufacturers worldwide who have successfully undertaken the design challenge to produce the best and most outstanding design products across the globe to our large and expanding global consumers. GOOD DESIGN represents the world’s critical mass of the design and manufacturing industry representing the best consumer design ranging from the ‘spoon to the city’.”

GOOD DESIGN is presented by The Chicago Athenaeum, together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies as the foremost program that honor and recognizes the best design talent and the best manufacturing worldwide.

Winning products and graphics for 2016 can be viewed at the Museum’s website at www.chi-athenaeum.org and www.europeanarch.eu.

DDSTUDIO Wins 3 GOOD DESIGN Awards!

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DDSTUDIO has won three GOOD DESIGN awards from the Chicago Athenaeum, Museum of Architecture and Design, one of the oldest and most prestigious design competitions in the world.

In the Medical category DDSTUDIO was recognized for its work on the TruMed AccuVax, a cloud-connected, point-of-care vaccine management system.

DDSTUDIO was also recognized in that category for Syneron’s VelaShape III, the first FDA-approved body contouring and cellulite-reduction device used in medical spas.

In the Personal category, DDSTUDIO was honored for the design of ROVA Pedestrian Assistive Technology, an ultra-durable and lightweight mobility aid.

“We are delighted and thrilled that the work of our extremely talented team of designers and engineers has been recognized for its efforts,”
— DDSTUDIO Founder and CEO Charles Curbbun.

This year the museum received thousands of submissions from more than 48 countries for the Good Design competition, which was founded in 1950. Only the most innovative products are selected for recognition in design excellence.

Charles Curbbun selected to judge CES Innovation Awards

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DDSTUDIO Founder and CEO Charles Curbbun has been selected as a judge for the CES Innovation Awards, an annual competition celebrating exceptional design and engineering in the consumer technology industry. The awards are one of the highlights of the massive annual gathering in Las Vegas for the consumer technologies market, where next-generation innovations are introduced and celebrated.

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DDSTUDIO named IDEA Finalist

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The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) named DDSTUDIO a finalist in the 2014 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA®) competition—a recognition of design excellence in products, interaction design, service design, strategy, research, concepts and student designs in categories ranging from automobiles and commercial products to medical equipment and home furnishings.

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