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What Would You Fight For?

Rudolph Design Studio was recently recognized in Notre Dame's award winning NBC video series - What Would You Fight For? - for their work on the OneAir Avian Influenza Monitoring System. Rudolph Design Studio …
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September 22, 2025
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OneAir Health System Recognized for Design Excellence by Red Dot, Core77, and IDSA

Our collaboration with research scientists at the University of Notre Dame continues to push the boundaries of translational research, user experience, and design. We're proud to announce that our most recent work has been …
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August 31, 2024
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Exploring the Nuance of Need in Product Development

My latest exploration into design research and process theory took me down a very deep academic rabbit hole - only to discover that much of the recent research into the psychology of need, want, …
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January 11, 2023
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Rudolph Design Studio Partners with MIT Start-up To Develop Continuous Blood Pressure Monitoring System

Rudolph Design Studio is proud and humbled to continue to provide design and development leadership for Dynocardia, a wildly innovative MIT start-up developing the world’s first accurate, continuous, and noninvasive blood pressure monitoring system. …
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January 19, 2022
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ND Design Partners with Lippert to Identify Radical Insights for the Future of the RV Industry

Notre Dame Design and local Elkhart, IN outdoor equipment manufacturer, Lippert Components, wrapped up an exciting project this past week. Inspired largely by the research approach and methods outlined in Liz Sanders and Pieter …
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June 15, 2021
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NearWave Wins TechPoint Innovation of The Year Award

Excited, proud, and humbled to be part of the amazing team at NearWave Medical, whose technology platform recently won Innovation of The Year at the annual TechPoint Mira Awards on Thursday, April 22nd. We …
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April 28, 2021
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Suspended Animation

We respond to moments of abrupt and unexpected change at different speeds. My speed has been zero, or maybe zero in reverse. I’ve been lost. Unable to respond. Unable to find the words to …
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August 10, 2020
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The Factory

In the summer of 2003 I felt like it was time to experience factory work. My dad had worked in manufacturing for 33 years, and I somehow felt obligated to gain first hand perspective …
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June 29, 2020
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An Extraordinary Chair

Extraordinary things often enter your life in unexpected ways. Call it a chance encounter, a coincidence, an accident. Call it luck. These things, however they enter your life, can have a profound impact on …
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June 5, 2020
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Cuts Like a Knife

Anthony Bourdain suggested I buy a Global brand knife and use it for life. So I did. I’m not exactly sure why I trusted Anthony Bourdain’s recommendation. Perhaps, I thought to myself, Global was …
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May 4, 2020