We create successful products.


Our success comes from a meaningful integration of the research, design and engineering disciplines. Our research team conducts ethnographic, usability, evaluative and discriminatory experience analysis. Our design team is expert at industrial, interaction, graphic and communication design. Our engineering team includes mechanical, electrical, systems and software.

But true value for clients is achieved when these teams work together. Our engineers are embedded in the research process. Our research team doesn't just "hand off" the assignment, they are integral to the design phase. And so on. Collaboration between the three disciplines maximizes the effectiveness of each and results in a better end-product for the client. This is what sets HLB apart from traditionally run industrial design firms. We don't just talk about collaboration. We live and breathe collaboration.

Our Work


HLB works with product development companies across all industries and across the world. Whether it's medical, consumer or industrial, we help set new standards and drive profits. Below is just a sampling of our work. For a more in-depth presentation on the 49 year history of HLB extraordinary success in bringing ideas to life, drop us a line.


Our Clients


Our clients range from start-ups to established brands in the consumer,
industrial and medical markets including:

  • · 3M
  • · Agilent
  • · Alberto Culver
  • · CF Bard
  • · Baxter Healthcare
  • · Braun
  • · Brainscope
  • · Church & Dwight
  • · The Clorox Company
  • · Craftsman
  • · Dell
  • · Dove
  • · Epson
  • · The First Years
  • · General Mills
  • · Gillette
  • · Johnson & Johnson
  • · Kodak
  • · Makita
  • · Medgenics
  • · Naviscan
  • · Paslode
  • · Reckitt Benckiser
  • · Samsung
  • · Siemens Building Technologies
  • · Smith & Nephew
  • · Sunbeam
  • · Trojan
  • · Unilever
  • · Water Pik, Inc
  • · Whirlpool
  • · Wrigley
  • · Yamaha