Whipsaw is an Industrial Design, UX and Engineering consulting firm with studios in San Jose and San Francisco, California. Whipsaw is known for creating smart, unique and intuitive product solutions that profoundly connect with end users on both a rational and emotional level. They are also known for consistently creating popular products that dominate their market niche, which makes their clients ecstatic and very successful. Whipsaw’s clients range from startups to large corporations in many diverse industries including consumer electronics, housewares, wearables, medical, robotics, scientific, commercial, networking, communication and computing products.
Founded in 1999 by Dan Harden (President/CEO) and Bob Riccomini (CTO), Whipsaw is now a staff of 45 and has become one of the most acclaimed design agencies in the world. Over 500 Whipsaw-designed products have shipped to market, many of which became big market hits. Some of these hits include the Brita Stream water pitcher line, Google’s OnHub, Wifi and Chromecast, Nest Dropcam cameras, the Nike FuelBand, the Dell Precision line, Neato robots, Cisco’s Telepresence line, Linksys router line, Livescribe smart pens, Eton emergency radios, Adiri baby bottles, Yubo lunch boxes, Leapfrog LeapPads, Roku TV boxes, Aristocrat slot machines, Highfive teleconferencing systems, Tascent Insight One, Topcon survey equipment, and over fifty TP-Link networking devices.