Sparkfactor Design
| Private | |
| Industry |
Mechanical Engineering Industrial Design |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | Palo Alto, California, USA |
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Key people
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Claudia Truesdell Robert Garett Mike Smith |
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Number of employees
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20 (2006) |
| Website | www.sparkfactordesign.com/ |
Sparkfactor Design is a design and consulting firm founded in Palo Alto, California, in 2001. They provide engineering design services for consumer products, consumer electronics, medical equipment, and other industries.
Sparkfactor Design was started in 2001 by Claudia Truesdell, Robert Garrett, and Mike Smith. Claudia Truesdell and Robert Garrett were both graduates of the Stanford Graduate School of Product Design, while Mike Smith was an industrial designer from GVO.
The firm employs approximately 20 people in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design. Inc Magazine included Sparkfactor in their 2007 list of top 100 consulting companies in the USA and in the 2008 list in the top 20 engineering companies in the USA. Sparkfactor was also included in the San Francisco Business Times list of top 50 private companies in the San Francisco Bay Area for 2007. and in the 2008 top 50 list.
Sparkfactor has partnered with many product-oriented companies to help design more than 100 consumer electronic products. In total these products have had sales of over 150 million units.
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