tripod design

tripod design is a Tokyo product design company founded in April 1987 by Satoshi Nakagawa and based in Kudan-kita, Chiyoda-ku, with an office in New York. Since its founding the studio has built its practice on a scientific approach to design, moving from ergonomics and kansei engineering to Expectology, its own theory of predictive emotional engineering introduced in 2005, and to Super Sensing Design, a research field linking human senses with sensing technology.

In 2019 the team identified Micropower Collection, a technology for harvesting small amounts of electrical energy that has become a separate industrial development programme for off-grid power. Work spans product and IoT design, environmental and brand design, design research and corporate design strategy.