Starkey
Medical: Understanding Usability
The hearing industry’s first touch control makes it easy for users to control their hearing aids with discrete, natural gestures.
Hitachi GST
Consumer Electronics: Responding to Lifestyle Changes
While other hard drives compete on specifications and price, Karten Design’s innovations change the game.
Johnson Controls, Inc.
Transportation: Responding to Lifestyle Changes
People have more demands on their time than ever before. Johnson Controls wanted its products to empower time solutions.
Avery Dennison
Medical: Defining Market Opportunities
Our insights on patient interactions with the healthcare system helped Avery evaluate a new business opportunity.
Iris Diagnostics
Medical: Defining Market Opportunities
Karten Design’s research informed our client’s business strategy.
USC Center for Body Computing
Medical: Exploring New Business Opportunities
We demonstrated how connected wireless technology could improve patient care with a device that simplifies pacemaker programming.
Kawasaki
Transportation: Cultural Translation
We research the U.S. rider and trends, serving as cultural translators to help the Japanese designers understand this market.
Fujitsu
Consumer Electronics: Cultural Translation
We researched U.S. design trends to translate Fujitsu's progressive brand image into a form language tailored to the American market.
Hitachi GST
Consumer Electronics: Introducing Sustainability
Consumers are concerned about the impact of the products they buy, but few are willing to shell out extra money for sustainable products.
Hitachi GST
Consumer Electronics: Introducing Sustainability
Sustainable materials and efficient construction strategies revolutionize the appearance of this environmentally friendly hard drive.
Ikan Technologies
Housewares: Commercializing New Ideas
The Ikan is a time-saving electronic device that allows users to order groceries from the same place they manage their food - the kitchen.
Alsius
Medical: Commercializing New Ideas
Karten Design transformed a bulky prototype into a marketable product that launched a medical start-up.
SenoRx
Medical: Standing Up for Patients
Karten Design humanized the breast biopsy experience for patients.
Zyliss
Housewares: Changing Meaning
Karten Design introduced a new form factor to tired kitchen tools, adding superior function, ergonomics and a lively new appearance.
Zyliss
Housewares: Solving Human Problems
We improved the user experience by solving an unmet need.
Karten Concept Project
Starting Conversations
Disturbing concepts beg the question, just because we can, does it mean we should?
Karten Concept Project
Starting Conversations
Money is an important political topic – who has it, who controls it and what implications it has for people and policy. Karten Design shed more light on the subject with a conceptual chandelier.
GOOD Magazine, USC Center for Body Computing
Concept Project: Starting Conversations
In Los Angeles County, one in five kids is obese. When GOOD Magazine paired Karten Design with Dr. Leslie Saxon and USC’s Center for Body Computing to address the problem of childhood obesity through design, we targeted motivation to create incentives for healthy behavior.
Duracell
Consumer Electronics: Reinforcing Market Share
As Duracell's design firm of record, Karten Design developed a design language, leveraging color, form, finish, and visual hierarchy to enable an authentic extension of the trusted Copper Top brand.
Starkey
Medical: Taking Market Share
A new design language makes Zōn the fastest-selling hearing aid in the United States.
Kingman
Consumer Goods: Taking Market Share
Our designs for paintball accessories take aim at the competition.
Jabra
Consumer Electronics: Creating Market Share
Karten Design fueled the hands-free phenomenon with our award-winning design language that changed the way that cellular headsets were worn and used.
Vizio
Consumer Electronics: Generating New Revenue Streams
A line of fashion-inspired headsets takes Vizio beyond the TV and give customers new avenues for entertainment and self expression.
Ultimate Ears
Consumer Electronics: Generating New Revenue Streams
We helped Ultimate Ears make the transition from the rock stage to the retail shelf.
Exaktime
Industrial: Increasing Company Value
In redesigning the manufacturing process as well as the product, we have given start-up company Exaktime the margins to pursue new distribution channels.
Midmark
Medical: Improving Workflow
Karten Design’s functional innovation saves physicians up to 20 minutes per day.
Cardiac Science
Medical: Commercializing New Technology
Over a decade-long relationship, Karten Design has commercialized Cardiac Science's proprietary technology into a range of new products.
Clinical Micro Sensors
Medical: Commercializing New Technology
A provocative "show car" helped communicate groundbreaking new technology to investors and licensors, allowing CMS to raise over $23m.
Cardiac Science
Medical: Understanding Usability
Karten Design focused on simplifying the treatment process for sudden cardiac arrest, empowering rescue professionals and untrained users to save lives.
Discus Dental
Medical: Understanding Usability
This cordless dental tooth-polishing tool reduces hand strain for dental hygienists.
Tensys Medical
Medical: Understanding Usability
Karten Design’s easy to use design has improved the adoption of a safer and more accurate method of measuring blood pressure during surgery.
Iris Diagnositcs
Medical: Improving Brand Positioning
This bold design makes a statement in the laboratory setting.
Midmark Diagnostics
Medical: Improving Brand Positioning
Our updated design increases the perceived value of Midmark’s ECG.
Midmark Diagnostics
Medical: Improving Brand Positioning
Our design language improves the process of entering patient vital signs into Electronic Medical Records.
