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.”
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Location

Whipsaw San Francisco Office
55 Mississippi
San Francisco, CA
United States

Clients

  • Abbot Labs
  • Alza
  • Apnicure
  • Aristocrat
  • Avaya
  • Avery
  • Bobrick
  • Colgate
  • Dell
  • Dropcam
  • Eton
  • Gatan
  • GE
  • Google
  • Griffin
  • Haier
  • Highfive
  • Huawei
  • IGT
  • Intel
  • Kaleidescape
  • Leapfrog
  • Leitz
  • Livescribe
  • Merck
  • Motorola
  • Netgear
  • Nike
  • Olympus
  • Pano Logic
  • Pioneer
  • Roku
  • Samsung
  • SunPower
  • Thermo-Scientific
  • Topcon
  • Yubo
  • Bosch
  • Cisco
  • Ford
  • Haier
  • Sony
  • Avinger
  • OMsignal
  • Sprimo
  • TP-Link
  • Miroculus
  • Empatica
  • Tile
  • Tonal
  • Omnicell
  • Hisense
  • Koda
  • Medostic
  • Ventir
  • Glint
  • Uber
  • Bear Robotics
  • Koniku
  • Openpath
  • Blumio
  • Silk Road Medical
  • Kabata
  • Hydrafacial
  • Pacific Biosciences
  • Cheetah
  • Fluidigm
  • Ancient Ritual
  • Johnson & Johnson
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Awards & Press

Red Dot
Tile Trackers
2022
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
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
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
Tibak
2020
Goldreed Industrial Design Award
Tonal
2020
CES Innovations
TP-Link Deco Series
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
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Team

36

Founded

1999

Inquiries

Dan Harden
phone: 408-297-9771

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