March 30th at 3:00 pm Charles Austen Angell, CEO and Founder of Modern Edge, is giving the keynote talk at the Georgia Tech southern design summit at the College of…
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The eFAST exam is the standard of care for trauma (extended Focused Assessment Sonography for Trauma) but encounters several limitations on the battlefield due to the size, weight, simplicity of…

Modern Edge is excited to see the release of AGCO’s newest combine. We’re proud of the collaboration with AGCO on the design thinking and design language for this program. “AGCO…

Modern Edge is a platinum sponsor for the 2018 30th annual Monte Shelton Classic Car Rally. Modern Edge is promoting our “Beautiful Machines” campaign to highlight our user centered approach…
Charles Austen Angell, FIDSA Founder Modern Edge, Inc. Charles Austen Angell, FIDSA, is president and CEO of Modern Edge, a strategic design firm based in Portland, OR, that innovates within…
On November 15, Modern Edge’s CEO, Charles Austen Angell addressed the Product Development and Management Association’s Annual Conference in Chicago. His speech “Future Tense: Virtual, Augmented and Autonomous” discussed that the future…
January 25th, 2017 Portland Oregon — On January 25-26th, Charles Austen Angell FIDSA provided the Keynote talk at the 1.5 day TieCON 2017- Technology and Investor Conference. https://www.tiecon.org/ The event…

On June 3, 2014, six Portland design professionals met on The Art Institute of Portland’s campus to present some of their current projects and share their insights to a room…

Founder, Chairman and Chief Editor of Design For All Institute of India, Dr. Sunil Kumar Bhatia recently invited Stephanie Battista, Senior Design Program Manager of Wearables at Modern Edge to…
Wearable Computing Trend Report 2014, Horizon Watching, Emerging Business Issues, Trends and Technologies. “New business processes, as wearables enter the workforce, we will find new ways to use these devices…

Watch Ford and IDSA’s “Designing Innovation” Panel Discussion Featuring Eric Anderson, Charles Austen Angell, Ed Boyd and Kevin George A myriad of design topics have been covered in the past…
Modern Edge’s Austen Angell was asked to write an article for Appliance Design magazine. Here’s a bit of it: Effective medical design accounts not only for an appliance’s dedicated purpose,…
Business Week has an article on Service Design this week. The article focuses on the development of the Audi Dealership experience being redesigned by one of Boston’s largest consulting firms….
“Cutting-edge design is about serving people, no matter where they are and who they are.” An article in the Oregonian on one of our recent collaborations… https://modernedge.com/2013/01/design-forum-pdx-brings-attention-to-quality-design-social-responsibility/