About Us
Whipsaw, under the leadership of design visionary Dan Harden, is a highly acclaimed strategy, industrial design, digital design, and engineering consulting firm. For over 20 years, Whipsaw has created successful products and immersive experiences for diverse industries including consumer electronics, housewares, computing, robotics, medical, scientific, and commercial products for clients such as Google, Brita, Cisco, Dell, Ford, GE, Meta, Tile, Intel, Merck, Nike, Olympus, Samsung, Sony, Uber, and Tonal. Whipsaw is renowned for its design ideology and intuitive product solutions that enrich the human experience.
Whipsaw is known for creating products that break through the noise with solutions that are beautiful, functional, unique, timeless, and simple. For this work, Whipsaw has been recognized with over 300 major design awards, including Red Dot, iF, IDEA, Medical Design Excellence Awards, and D&AD. Whipsaw’s work has been featured in the Smithsonian Institution Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, The Henry Ford Museum, and the V&A Museum. Fast Company ranked Whipsaw among the Top 5 design firms in the world and selected Dan Harden as “One of the 100 Most Creative People in Business.”
Awards
- Core77 Honorable Mention Skrolla 2022
- Red Dot TP-Link Tapo 2022
- Chicago Athenaeum Good Design Empatica EmbracePlus 2021
- International Design Awards Bronze Tile Trackers 2021
- Red Dot Tile Trackers 2022
- IDEA Silver Martian Home Cleaning Robot 2021
- International Design Awards Gold Martian Home Cleaning Robot 2021
- Chicago Athenaeum Good Design Martian Home Cleaning Robot 2021
- iF Finalist Tonal 2021
- IDEA Gold Tonal 2020
- Goldreed Industrial Design Award Tonal 2020
- Red Dot Tonal 2019
- Chicago Athenaeum Good Design Tonal 2019
- Good Design Award Australia Tonal 2019
- International Design Awards Tonal 2019
- European Product Design Award Tonal 2019
- Red Dot TP-Link Deco Series 2021
- International Design Awards Silver TP-Link Deco Series 2021
- Chicago Athenaeum Good Design TP-Link Deco Series 2021
- iF Award TP-Link Deco Series 2021
- Goldreed Industrial Design Award TP-Link Deco Series 2021
- CES Innovations TP-Link Deco Series 2020
- Spark Kabata 2022
- IDA Koda 2022
- IDA Martian Home Cleaning Robot 2022
- IDA TCL Remote 2022
- IDA TP-Link Deco 2022
- IDA Omnicell Syringe Dispenser 2022
- IDA Tile Trackers 2022
- Red Dot Uber Beacon 2022
- IDEA Fluidigm BiomarkX 2022
- IDEA MXXY Hydration Pack 2022
- IDEA Skrolla 2022
- Good Design Australia Google Trekker 2022
- Good Design Australia Skrolla 2022
- iF Kabata 2023
- iF PacBio Revio 2023
- Red Dot Kabata 2023
- IDEA PacBio Revio 2023
- Global Design News Furniture + Lighting Skrolla 2023
- Core77 PacBio Revio 2023
- Good Design Australia PacBio Revio 2023