Josh Kornfeld

About Josh Kornfeld

Josh founded TACTILE in as a high-touch product and UX design consultancy where the creative, technical, and strategic come together to design meaningful physical and digital experiences for everyday moments and the one of a kind. Based in downtown Seattle Washington, TACTILE balances a highly strategic design offering while staying grounded in the practical aspects of real world product development.After working at design consultancies and startups, Josh went solo, focusing on consumer technology, games, and medical products. He started TACTILE with clients that include Microsoft, Disney, Milwaukee tools, GE, Panasonic, Intel, and Samsung, Josh and his team have welcomed the opportunity to design and develop innovative equipment and devices. Under Josh’s leadership TACTILE has flourished, expanding its skillset to accommodate increasingly diverse clients that provide medical, consumer medical, and “greater good” products and services. Josh continues to guide his team in designing unique products that will have a lasting impact on both clients and consumers.

Experience

1. Founder Principal

   Tactile

   Sep 2002 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   At Tactile, Relationships matter the most to us and for over 15 years, we’ve partnered with influential and emerging brands to craft industrial, medical and consumer products with lasting relevance. When it comes to design, we believe that practical and enjoyable are not mutually exclusive. Details should be purposeful and nuanced, never gratuitous. We’ve developed a culture where industrial designers, interaction designers, graphic designers, and engineers create sought-after products and experiences through research and strategy. Our collaborative approach to interactive design and product development provides layers of insight throughout each step of the design process. With a foundation of empathy, each project starts with doing the hard work of building and understanding relationships and ends with a product that works and is desirable for everyone.We’re in search of projects with a cause; not just next year’s model, but something that aims to deliver a new experience, improve a life, make a job easier, help someone get well or allow someone to have more fun not just for the first hour, but for the long haul. We want to design things that matter. It’s what we excel at because it’s what we’re passionate about.

Education

• Rhode Island School of Design

  BFA Industrial Design, Industrial and Product Design

  1990 — 1995

Skills

• Model Making
• Solidworks
• Interaction Design
• Product Design
• Design Strategy
• Creative Direction
• User-Centered Design
• Product Development
• Usability Testing
• Sketching
• Rapid Prototyping
• Industrial Design
• Concept Development
• Ethnography
• Design Management
• Cad
• Strategic Design
• Design Thinking
• Service Design
• Manufacturing
• Concept Design
• Information Design
• Experience Design
• Art Direction
• Rhino
• User Interface Design
• User Experience
• Keyshot
• Contextual Inquiry
• User Experience Design
• Concept Art
• Concept Generation
• Design for Manufacturing
• User Research