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How to write a winning entry: Advice from Good Design Juror Sam Lanyon

Design awards can be a great way for a company to build credibility, and the benefits can flow much further. From opening doors with investors, clients, and talent, to generating PR exposure, winning awards helps build your brand. But how do you stand out from the crowd?

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Epiminder partners with PI to develop software for epilepsy monitoring implant

Medical device innovator Epiminder has teamed up with Planet Innovation’s (PI) Digital team to develop software for its epilepsy monitoring device under development.

3 ways to accelerate your product development program and get to market faster

When developing new products, you want to get a product to market ASAP. But how do you do that without cutting corners on quality, performance and safety?

How a virtual innovation workshop can be better than in-person

Over the past nine months, I’ve run multiple innovation workshops for clients entirely online. Here are some tips to ensure your virtual workshop is as engaging and productive as an in-person workshop.

Lumos's Leelu Reader wins Good Design Award

PI and Lumos pick up top Medical Design and Engineering Awards for rapid diagnostic development platform

Planet Innovation and Lumos Diagnostics have won two awards at the 2020 Good Design Awards, including a Good Design Award Gold accolade for Lumos’s Leelu Reader.

APAS Independence wins Good Design Award

PI wins top medical design award and digital app award

Planet Innovation took home the Good Design Awards’ top gong for medical design for our work on Clever Culture Systems’ APAS Independence instrument, along with a digital design award for Uniting NSW’s Mosaic app.

Why commercial outcomes are better when designers work with manufacturers

When designers work with manufacturing experts from the start, their clients are the winners. Why? Costs fall, profits grow and products have a better chance of success.

PI Design team picks up two Good Design Awards

Planet Innovation’s design team won two awards at the 60th Annual Good Design Awards for their work with Cycliq on its Fly CE products and with Dermapenworld on the Dermapen 4 medical product.

Planet Innovation recognized for world leading product design

Planet Innovation clients pick up four trophies and Best Overall Product Design at the Good Design Awards.

Are you designing a Product Ecosystem that engages the heart and mind?

Companies that think in terms of a ‘product ecosystem’ will trounce rivals that come to the market with a more myopic view of success, says Francois Nguyen, principal designer at Frog, a global product strategy and design firm that has become internationally recognised for its innovation.

Design is more than skin deep

What makes a product great? Iconic? Whatever the quality, the decision is made, neither by the team that created it nor the marketer who sold it, but by the people who use it. So that is where we start when we design a new product – with people. And that design must be more than skin deep.