About Helix
We Are Your Link Between a Satisfying User Experience and a Profitable, Manufacturable Product Design Solution
As your full-service product development firm with expertise in industrial design, mechanical engineering, rapid prototyping, and design research, we help you and your team design and develop products and their accessories for consumer, industrial, tactical, business and healthcare applications.
Our in-house graphic design and soft goods services are natural extensions for many of our product development programs.
We also have a substantial network of outsourced services to meet your complete product development needs, including, thermal design, sourcing manufacturers and more.
Our Clients Love Our ID Process
Founded in 1990, Helix Design intentionally maintains a diversified client base to keep the designers and engineers energized and engaged in new and different projects. Involvement in a wide variety of markets and industries allows the Helix design team to easily cross-pollinate ideas, solutions, processes, and material choices, keeping their ideas and point of view fresh.
Like many industrial design firms, we design beautiful human-focused products, and we enhance this by delivering highly functional and manufacturable products. Having compared us to other product design firms, our clients appreciate both our creativity and our approach to program management. But overwhelmingly we are praised for our attention to detail and ability to take your product across the finish line!
Because we do the design and engineering, from project inception through production release we are always thinking about how your product is going to be manufactured.
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What do our clients say about us, our process, and our work?
- “An industry game changer.”
- “They connect us to our customers through innovative product design.”
- “The last time we hired an ID firm, it wasn’t manufacturable. This time was different.”
- “Their work dramatically impacts our business.”
The Only Industrial Design Firm with a Satisfaction Guarantee
We’re so sure that you will be satisfied with our work and process, that we are the only industrial design firm to stand so boldly behind our creativity and manufacture-readiness that we guarantee to stay with you throughout the process and ensure you’re in production as intended.
Additionally, we’re privately held, so we aren’t attached to a particular manufacturer, technology, or board of directors.
Established with Both Design and Business in Mind
Helmed by industry veterans Joe Schappler who is both Founder and active Industrial Designer, and A.K. Stratton, Vice President of Product Development, the team at Helix Design is known for delivering leading-edge product designs that are ready for production.
With a team of industrial designers, engineers, graphic design and soft goods designers, and various support staff, we’re right-sized to help you get that tough project across the finish line, or help you scale the team you have in place. Our integrated team relishes generating innovative and thoughtful solutions and are inspired by seeing successful resolutions to the most challenging product development needs.
Beyond delivering creative product design solutions time and time again, Helix has defined its place in the industrial design industry based on 3 core pillars of success: functional expertise, adherence to our core values, and open and honest communication.
Functional Expertise
Core Values
Open and Honest Communication
New England is Where We Call Home
Many times we are asked to redesign an existing product, improving upon its best features. We leveraged this experience when designing our own headquarters. We combined the best of the existing features and customized the space in a sophisticated way to support the flow of work. The space was designed to invoke energy, creativity, integration and the open floor plan keeps the lines of communications uninterrupted among specialties.
Based just north of Boston, Massachusetts in Manchester, New Hampshire, we’re positioned to support regional New England-based businesses, those on the East Coast, and across the continental U.S.
Do you need industrial design guidance for your next project?
Contact us today.