Exceptional design and human insight, seamlessly integrated.

Define the opportunity
Our research and design process turns human insight into tangible results. By uncovering unmet user needs and creating experiences to meet them, our solutions help our clients create meaningful connections with their audience.
Design exceptional experiences
From early ideation of products, experiences, and brands to complete design & engineering refinement, we collaborate with our clients to accelerate their most pressing product challenges. We design exceptional experiences with lasting impact.
Drive future landscapes
The pursuit of future-oriented product innovation is at the heart of everything we do. We empower our clients to realize their potential by analyzing future landscapes and leveraging emerging themes to develop new products and services.
We believe in harmony across physical, digital, and brand experiences. Our diverse capabilities help us actualize this belief for our clients.

Industrial Design

We design products, devices, and experiences used by millions of people around the world every day.

  • Product Design Ideation & Refinement
  • Human Factors & Ergonomics
  • Model-Making & Prototyping
  • Color, Materials, Finish & Detail Specification
  • Design Engineering
  • Enclosure & Mechanism Engineering
  • User Testing
  • Sustainable Design

Digital Experiences

We craft digital experiences and complex interfaces that functionally connect brands with their users.

  • User Journey Mapping
  • UX Design
  • User Interface Design
  • Prototyping & User Testing
  • Web & Mobile App Design
  • Human-Machine Interaction Design
  • Digital Design Systems
  • Digital Platform Optimization
  • Technical Discovery & Architecture
  • iOS & Android App Development
  • Web App Development
  • Implementation support

Brand Development

We define the critical elements of a brand so that it is distinctive in the mind of the desired audience.

  • Target Audience Mapping
  • Brand Strategy
  • Brand Identity & Naming
  • Physical & Digital Brand Language
  • Brand Collateral
  • Voice & Narrative
  • Website Design & Development
  • 3D Product Visualization
  • Packaging Design

Experience Innovation

We develop innovation strategies that help our clients align on not just the vision but also the path to get there.

  • Systems Thinking
  • Participatory Design & Co-creation
  • Design Opportunity Area Definition
  • Concept Ideation & Development
  • Qualitative Research & Ethnography
  • Emerging Tech Discovery
  • Product Roadmapping
  • New Product Design Engineering
  • Service Design & Blueprinting
  • Speculative Design Futuring

Product Development

We excel at bridging product potential to reality, both through in-house product development and our extensive network of partners.

  • Material & Detail Refinement
  • Technology Integration
  • Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DFMA)
  • Manufacturing Strategy
  • Cost Optimization
  • Partner Sourcing
We’ve worked with startup and corporate clients to create over 1000 different products. Here’s a selection of our industry expertise.

Healthcare & Medical

Abbott, AliveCor, Apollo Neuro, Avinger, Blumio, Ceribell, Delphinus, Empatica, Hydrafacial, Imperative Care, Johnson & Johnson, Naya Health, Omnicell, Optovue, Outset Medical, Penumbra, QBio, Relievant, Rockley, Silk Road Medical

Fitness & Wellness

Aescape, Ancient Ritual, Atlantis, Axon, FightCamp, Kabata, MXXY, Nike, OMSignal, RecoverX, Regear, Spryng, Tempo, Tersa, Tonal

Biotech & Scientific

Beckman Coulter, Bio-Rad, Boston Scientific, Chronos Therapeutics, Eikon, Element Biosciences, Fluidigm, Gatan, Gilson, Koniku, Merck, Miroculus, PacBio, ReThink Medical, Sciex, Standard Biotools, Thermo Fisher

Home & Family

Atoms, Adiri, Blender Bottle, Brita, Clorox, Haier, Harry’s, Illure, Life360, Leap Frog, Owala, Polygroup, Samsung, Shine, Simple Human, Sprimo, Takano, Trane, UPPAbaby, Walmart, VersaMe, Yubo

Transportation & Mobility

CRRC, Ford, Ghost, Hyperloop, HUBB, Nuro, Peloton Tech, Uber, Volta, Waev, Zoox

Robotics & Automation

Aeolus, Aescape, Bear Robotics, Bossanova, Ekso Bionics, Foxeye Robotics, Hyphen, KODA, Martian Robotics, Midea, Neato, 10Beauty

Consumer Technology

Amazon, Acer, Arris, Artemis Defense, Bowers & Wilkins, Cisco, Dell, Dropcam, Eton, Google, Hisense, Homedics, Josh, Kaleidescape, LG, Leitz, Life360, Livescribe, Meta, Motorola, Netgear, Nod Labs, PAX Labs, Pioneer, Ring, Roku, TCL, TP-Link, Trane, Vudu

Business & Commercial

AGS, Aristocrat, Avaya, BigShots Golf, Bobrick, Cheetah, Flow Corp, General Dynamics, General Electric, Geometrics, Glint, Highfive, IonQ, Johnson Controls, nVent, Olympus, OpenPath, Plato Systems, Qwake, Sunpower, Tascent, Tive, Topcon, Viatouch, ZonePro
“Whipsaw’s design not only enhances the brand but opens the opportunity for entirely new experiences for Uber to express itself in a city.”
PJ Li, CEO of TP-Link Global
“Whipsaw’s design not only enhances the brand but opens the opportunity for entirely new experiences for Uber to express itself in a city.”
Anurag Agarwalla, Former Head of Equity Engineering of Uber
“When building something that’s going to be used by the most-demanding endurance athletes in the world, it’s not just about looking pretty. It’s about exceptionally reliable engineering and highly functional user interactions. Whipsaw excels at building products that exist at that intersection.”
Drew Dawson, CEO of MXXY
Since our founding in 1999, our work has received 325 awards and counting, continually being acknowledged for setting new standards and creating impactful results.