{"550141":{"#nid":"550141","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Our Alum Wins Two \u0027Academy Awards\u0027 of Industrial Design","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Industrial Design alum Ty Hagler (BSID \u002703) and his company Trig Innovation have earned multiple top awards at this year\u0027s International Design Excellence Awards.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022For the industrial design community, this is certainly our Academy Awards,\u0022 said Hagler. \u0022We received a Bronze award for the Sports \u0026amp; Leisure category and a Finalist award for the Medical \u0026amp; Scientific category. Winning two awards in a year is quite an accomplishment that speaks to many years of work leading up to this recognition!\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETrig Innovation partnered with two North Carolina startups to produce the award-winning projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EALTR ERGO, a product-maker for cycling competitors and enthusiasts, collaborated with Trig Innovation on the Bronze Award-winning Sanctuary Saddle. The project is a cost-saving, comfortable, ergonomic bike saddle with a width adjustment bridge. More than that, this bike saddle project includes a system for customizing the saddle and a new material that dampens vibration over long distance rides.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe company 410 Medical engaged Trig Innovation to further develop and launch their product LifeFlow rapid infuser, a hand-held device used to administer fluids to critically ill patients. The\u0026nbsp;mechanical concept brainstorming, 3D CAD visualization, rapid prototyping, industrial design, and animated videos Trig Innovation brought to the LifeFlow project won the Finalist Award in the Medical and Scientific category.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of the founding members of 410 Medical, Galen Robertson, is a fellow Georgia Tech alumnus from Biomedical Engineering, Hagler said. Their type of collaboration is often mirrored by students in the School of Industrial Design\u2019s \u201cHealth and Well Being\u201d academic specialization.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHagler said his work lives at the intersection of engineering and marketing. He sees himself as a champion of the customer experience. \u0022In more plain terms, we play with LEGOs and crayons to make beautiful experiences for people,\u0022 he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOriginally from Gainesville, Georgia, Hagler said his education at Georgia Tech made a huge impact on his career and thinking as a designer. Georgia Tech\u0027s industrial designers are unique in the professional landscape because of their ability to balance form and function. (It\u0027s his experience that more art-centric designers are limited to addressing form.)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGetting pushed to deeply understand problems by his professor Kevin Reeder was particularly influential, he said. \u0022You can\u2019t be satisfied with a surface-level understanding of the customer, but you have to know the customer better than they know themselves.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis company, Trig Innovation, is approaching its tenth year in business. The company is focused on excellence in innovation, design, and marketing services for entrepreneurs and product development teams around the world.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETy Hagler (BSID\u002703\u0022 won Bronze and Finalist awards at the 2016 International Design Excellence Awards.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ty Hagler (BSID\u002703\u0022 won Bronze and Finalist awards at the 2016 International Design Excellence Awards."}],"uid":"27803","created_gmt":"2016-07-01 14:27:32","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:22:04","author":"Ann Hoevel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-07-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-07-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"550401":{"id":"550401","type":"image","title":"Ty Hagler","body":null,"created":"1467727200","gmt_created":"2016-07-05 14:00:00","changed":"1475895345","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:45","alt":"Ty Hagler","file":{"fid":"218172","name":"ty.hagler.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ty.hagler_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ty.hagler_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":56117,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ty.hagler_0.jpg?itok=-ZTo73yR"}},"550411":{"id":"550411","type":"image","title":"Ty Hagler\u0027s LifeFlow design","body":null,"created":"1467727200","gmt_created":"2016-07-05 14:00:00","changed":"1475895345","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:45","alt":"Ty Hagler\u0027s LifeFlow design","file":{"fid":"218173","name":"f1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/f1_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/f1_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":104956,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/f1_0.jpg?itok=hng3vVMQ"}},"550421":{"id":"550421","type":"image","title":"Ty Hagler\u0027s Sanctuary Saddle design","body":null,"created":"1467727200","gmt_created":"2016-07-05 14:00:00","changed":"1475895345","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:45","alt":"Ty Hagler\u0027s Sanctuary Saddle design","file":{"fid":"218174","name":"2_6.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2_6_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2_6_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":77964,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2_6_0.jpg?itok=QHwzQlSm"}}},"media_ids":["550401","550411","550421"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAnn W. 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