Over the next few weeks we will be highlighting award-winning projects and ideas from this year’s Core77 Design Awards 2013. We will be featuring these projects by category, so stay tuned for your favorite categories of design! For full details on the project, jury commenting and more information about the awards program, go to Core77DesignAwards.com.
Project Name: HazMatID Elite
Designers: Bresslergroup and Nexus Design LLC
The Smiths Detection HazMatID Elite is a portable chemical identifier used to detect hazardous chemical and biological substances. The product is used by military and civilian first responders to quickly and accurately detect health and safety risks in the field.
The product helps first responders keep people out of harm’s way and reduce the social and economic impacts of chemical incidents and attacks via a clear and intuitive design.
– How did you learn that you had been recognized by the jury?
We watched it live!
– What’s the latest news or development with your project?
The device has won Appliance Design Excellence in Design Gold and IDSA IDEA Bronze.
– What is one quick anecdote about your project?
The client HazMatID Elite development team were very flexible and open-minded to some of our more novel interaction design ideas—which really allowed us to push the boundaries of designing their next generation user interface beyond what they were used to in the past.
– What was an “a-ha” moment from this project?
Realizing that the thoughtful information architecture, and the functional design of user interfaces for first-responders is hugely important, and in some cases, could be a matter of life or death.
View the full project here.
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