Experience and Approach

Who we are...

Over 40 years experience in design and development of innovative solutions, with patents in medical, military and consumer markets, taking initial research and concepts to finished products.

Founder of Cognate Design - innovative, technical product design and engineering
Awards and recognition for products IF Award, Red Dot and Medical Design Excellence

“I regard myself as being very fortunate to have been in the right places at the right times to work on some fantastic products for successful global brands”

Mechanical design engineer
Engineering Director of Cognate Design - innovative, technical product design and engineering
Awards and recognition for products Red Dot

"Over the years I’ve had the pleasure of working with great people on some novel products which has enabled me to learn new things, explore new places and make peoples’ everyday activities a little more joyous; these are some of the reasons I love working in engineering and product design"

How we do it...

We adopt a variety of techniques to ensure our design process is appropriately directed and executed.

Insights

Much of design is about drawing out the needs of users or differentiators in new designs. LUMA techniques help to identify and evaluate concepts from the user perspective. 
Practitioner of LUMA techniques to draw trends and insights from research

With experience of the MDBC C2C approach, and resource conscious design techniques. Our designs are developed with use of materials and end-of-life in mind.

Approach

Cradle-to-cradle approach to use of materials end-of-life

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