The 2021 Core77 Design Awards Strategy & Research category honors projects or products that predominantly utilize design research and strategy. Examples include: brand strategies, product and project strategies, research methodologies such as surveys, interviews, studies, observations, varied research throughout projects, etc.

This year's Core77 Design Awards Strategy & Research team was led by Emily Privot McNamara, Senior Researcher of Industrial Design at Amazon. Joining Emily on the panel was Charles Erdman, Head of Product Design at Small Planet, Karina Totah, Chief of Staff to the President & CMO at Thyme Care, Michal Levin, Vice President of Product at Hero and designer Parul Vora.

The Strategy & Research honorees are as follows:

Congratulations to all of this year's honorees! You can view the honorees in all 18 categories on the Core77 Design Awards website.

Check out all the 2021 Core77 Design Awards honorees by category:

Built Environment | Commercial Equipment | Consumer Technology | Design Education Initiative | Design for Social Impact | Furniture & Lighting | Health & Wellness | Home & Living | Interaction | Packaging | Personal Accessory | Service Design | Speculative Design | Sports & Recreation | Strategy & Research | Tools & Work | Transportation | Visual Communication