Michelle McCune, Industrial Designer
“More than creating a beautiful product, you’re creating something that improves another person’s life.”
Published on:
2011
- Michelle approaches design with both a pragmatic honesty and sense of humor - seeking to create real meaningful value for people that marries both their functional and emotional needs. After studying industrial design at Ottawa's Carleton University, Michelle went on to create solutions for the retail environment, consumer and healthcare products, service design solutions, mobile apps, and more. Her work has garnered award recogntion from the Design Exchange, Neocon, and the Chicago Anthenaeum (Good Design Awards). Incorporating a wide range of interests - from space tourism to backyard gardening - Michelle's work aims always to surprise and delight, to create new experiences and to transform even everyday activities into small pleasures. A masterful sketcher, knitter, sometime home-chef, and passable ultimate frisbee player and equestrian, Michelle's personal interests aim to celebrate the fine art of good living.
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"Innovation doesn’t have to be a really risky thing. You can apply structure and rigour -- not to get predictable results -- but to get meaningful results that are valuable to your business."2011 -
“Think of everything you know about engineers then forget all of it.”2011 -
"People who are practiced in collaboration will do better than those who insist on their individuality." - Twyla Tharp2011 -
“The Cooler team gets immersed in people’s worlds in order to get True Insight.”2011 -
“The greatest thing about our team is the passion. Everyone is extremely driven and very passionate about what they do here.”2011 -
“The measure of a great service or product design is its ability to fulfill functional needs and create an emotional connection, all the while delivering bottom line impact."2011 -
"Understanding is really a medium of good design."2011 -
“Solution design encompasses something that’s complex, meaningful and can create change.”2011 -
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” — Albert Einstein2011 -
"Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them." - Rita Levi Montalcini, Nobel Prize winner, on her 100th birthday2011 -
“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.” -John Lennon2012 -
"SNACK!!"2012
