Announcement of Finalist List for 2024 Better Design Award

On October 19-20, 2024, the Organizing Committee of Better Design Award (BDA) held the second evaluation meetings. A group of 19 industry experts from around the world formed juror panels for the evaluation of 614 design works and 95 design-driven brands. The review process was conducted under the supervision of notaries, and the BDA finalist list and nominated award list were ultimately selected.

Work Selection Second Evaluation

The jury evaluated the shortlisted works based on four main criteria: innovation value, market value, sustainable impact, and social impact. A total of 40 works were selected as finalists. Among them, there were 10 works in the "The Pillars of a Great Power" category, 20 in the "Good Life" category, and 10 in the "Future Design" category. After a rigorous review by the jurors, 160 works were also selected for nomination awards, including 40 in the "The Pillars of a Great Power" category, 80 in the "Good Life" category, and 40 in the "Future Design" category.

Brand Selection Second Evaluation

The brand jurors conducted a thorough and impartial evaluation of all nominated brands, based on five criteria: founding team, brand value, innovative organization, product innovation, and market impact. Ultimately, 24 brands were selected as finalists.

In accordance with the judging standards of Better Design Award, final award-winning works will receive certificates, trophies, and cash prizes, while nominated works will receive digital nomination certificates. The finalist list and nomination award list are hereby announced for public viewing and open to social supervision. If there are any objections to the award list, please submit them in written form to the BDA Organizing Committee within the announcement period, along with complete and sufficient supporting materials.

Announcement period: October 24, 2024 — October 27, 2024

TBM

Wheeled Quadruped Robot W1

“C the future”Greater Bay Area 

Smart Express City C train

XiangZhouYun Intelligent Integrated

Scientific Research Vessel

Design of Dongfeng Mhero 917 

Intelligent Cockpit HMI

X8PRO Anaesthesia workstation

FireFly Multifunctional Modular Fixed-Wing UAV

TOK-ARM

High Altitude Gliding Channel Rescue Vehicle

2030 manned lunar rover

 Roborock App 3.0 

POINCARE Scanner

SPOWER-ESS PowerHub2-H Series

GAC ADi GO intelligent system

 Beatbot AquaSense / A100 

 SoFab 

Seeing green-designed for the development of "green" packaging in express packaging

HUAWEI Watch GT4 Stay Fit

 Loop Bench

Xiaomi 14 Ultra

ANTA METAVERSE

IFLYTEK Translator 4.0

Meditate AP 400 - 360° Air Purifier

MD20 360° Meeting Camera

《INTROPY SPEEDSTER》 Aero Road Bike

FIT3701DSmart Ring Jump Rope

MEDISPACE

Ai intelligent baby stroller

Muscle training robot

uMetaCareTalk - Visualized Service System for Doctor-Patient Communication

Resona A20 ultra-high-end ultrasound 

diagnostic system

Disposable series laparoscopic Trocar

High voltage fast charging rack

ExoUltra AM-320

URA multi-pos lower limb rehabilitation system

4 Paradigm Smart Irrigation Agriculture Platform

Digital Video Processing System

Plankton——Emergency product design based 

on mountaineering emergencies

Winter oasis

Design of degradable straw landslide protection net

 Babycare 

In 2014, industrial designer Li Kuo founded Babycare, a maternal and infant care brand. Founder Li kuo directed and designeda number of leading products in the seqment of maternal and infant care products quided by the revolutionizing, innovativeconcept of "Flourish from Disruption", leading Babycare to become one of the top brands in the maternal and infant careindustry.With the mission of "Design with Parental Affections", Babycare has started with a variety of pioneering carriers without threddand then introduced multiple groundbreaking products that shape the direction of trend in the industry, including the firstunpainted, collapsable beds to sleep through the night, water-infused and insulated bowls that represent the innovativeintroduction of medical sainless steel into baby food bowls, reverse-woven fountain-shaiped socks to prevent babies frombeing entangled in coils of wool as well as diapers tailored for newbornswith revolutionizing innovations in the core, bottomlayer, waistline, and surface layer...

UIH-CDIC

The first exclusive design innovation team in China's high-end medical equipment industry, focusing on the industrial design of the entire product line, software interface design, and comprehensive user experience design. It promotes the profound integration of technology, art, and humanities to drive the comprehensive upgrade of the industry's design awareness, brand awareness, and process standards.

The four major product lines of MI, MR, CT, and XR have won nearly 20 industrial design awards for more than ten products, including the Red Dot Best Design Award, the iF Design Award, the Gold Award of China Excellent Industrial Design, and the Industrial Design Gold Award of China International Industry Fair.

Moovi

The Founder and CEO of Moovi hasthe background of Art and Design,and She is also a curator. She isinvolved in every department ofMoovi company,includingtechnology, production, supplychain, marketing, and almost alwork link at her beginning. Therefore,design is indispensable in the DNA ofMoovi brand. Another importantgroup of in Moovi team are topnational-level engineers who haverational thinking and industrial skills.The creation of each Moovi productand the brainstorming of each seriesof products are like a collision ofsensibility and rationality. Engineers,artists, and designers provide eachother with questions and inspiration,creating infinite vitality in constantcontradictions.

XPENG

XPENG, as a mobility company, is so much more than just cars.Whether people want to travel by car, air or other ways, we want to change what is possible.Recognizing the crucial and diverse role mobility plays in people's lives. Making cars more intelligent.Transforming everyday mobility into richer human experiences.We're a mobility technology company at heart. Human experience is constantly changing, so we never stop innovating.As our journey takes us further, we're thrilled to tell you more about our story.

 Nothing（R）

Technology should be exciting and inspiring, empowering people with new abilities to enrich their lives. However, in the last decade, it has become a vast ocean of sameness, in need of reorganization and disruption. At Nothing, we want to make technology fun again. To create the best tech products for young, creative minds. We sell our products in 37 countries through channel partners and our D2C website, nothing.tech. We have also opened our first retail store in SOHO, the vibrant cultural center of London. The store, designed in-house by Nothing, is an experimental space to explore the possibilities of our retail strategy.

Shanghai HOTO Technology Co., Ltd.

We are HOTO, dedicated to crafting tools for a fresh approach to living. HOTO tools are designed to make daily tasks easier with an intuitive approach, inspiring creativity through minimalist yet beautiful designs that allow creativity to flow during the act of making, accessible to both novices and seasoned professionals. Since the brand's inception, we have garnered over 60 international design awards. Utilizing avant-garde technology and superior product design, we constantly innovate and explore. Focusing on both form and function, we integrate new technologies such as renewable energy, interconnectivity, and smart sensing into our tool creation process, combining them with distinctive design aesthetics to deliver a refined user experience. Looking ahead, we aspire to innovate the next generation of tool products, encouraging users to engage in creation and transforming the way creators work.

CIGA design

CIGA Design is China's first origjinaldesigner watch brand led by Mr.Zhang lianmin, one of China's Top 10 Industial Designers, since he founded the company in 2016.CIGAhas always been commited to original design in an fort to redefine the aesthetics on your wrist with modern mechanical art,and reconstruct the spitual expression andatitude proposition of writwatches for the young generaion to express themselves with the concept of being "reasonable but unexpected".CiGA has won a total of 16 interatona desion awards bv virtue of its excelent onaina, desions, So far, CiGA has reapd the largest number of international desion awardsamong its Chinese peers and the only Chinese watchbrand winning the GPHG nrZeClGA has nine of the thirteen Red Dot Awards for watches in china. it's also the winneof both the German Red Dot Award: Best of the Best and the if Gold Award for product design in the domestic watch industry.In 2019, ClGA was nominated for GPHGwhich is known as the "Oscars of the watch industny, making itself the first chinese watch brand in GPHG's list of Wimers.

ECOFLOW

Wang Lei, founder and CEO of EcoFlow, who has always been concerned about new energy, started from scratch in 2017 and founded EcoFlow, committed to providing global users with the ultimate friendly, clean and inclusive way of using electricity. In the past 7 years, Dr. Wang Lei has always adhered to the principle of "innovationoriented, technology is king", led the R&D and industrial design teams to devote themselves to research and development step by step, and successively conquered the fast charging technology that has plagued the industry for a long time and independently innovated the dimension-enhancing drive technology, making mobile energy storage products more convenient and easy to use; And a breakthrough has realized the IoT mode of mobile energy storage products, opening the IoT era of mobile energy storage. EcoFlow has been striving to break through the boundaries of clean energy personalized applications, from the rich mobile energy storage product matrix to the automatic light tracking system that effectively improves the efficiency of solar energy conversion, and then to intelligent home energy storage products, EcoFlow focuses on making renewable clean energy applications more easy to use and efficient, and focuses on achieving the goal of "carbon neutrality for individuals and families".

RoboCT

Founded in 2017, RoboCT is a national high-tech enterprise with technological innovation as the core driving force. RoboCT is dedicated to the R&D and application of exoskeleton robotics, mainly in terms of core algorithms and components. Rehabilitation and elderly-care are current main focus and RoboCT provides intelligent products and customized solutions for both medical institutions and individuals, based on a combined technology of human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, data analysis, and cloud computing.The company’ s mission is to benefit people with motor impairment and mobility difficulties caused by nerve damage. By means of enhancing body functions through robotics and expanding the application of exoskeletons in the fields of healthcare, industry, safety, transportation, and recreation, RoboCT is pacing towards the aim of “human +”, allowing everyone to enjoy the service of robotics.RoboCT's products include core components, medical exoskeletons, household exoskeletons, and innovations, to solve rehabilitation, mobility, and self-care problems. Utilizing a digital cloud platform, RoboCT provides medical institutions and individual users with a full-cycle, full-scenario, and full-digital rehabilitation service.

TAJEZZ0

Tajezz0, pronounced /tʌ'dʒi:zo/, originates from Esperanto and means "new generation." In Chinese, it is phonetically translated as "Tanji Zhi," which implies the brand's mission to explore the unknown and design for the future. Established in 2019, Tajezz0 is a city outdoor brand designed by Tu'ao Design, one of China's top ten industrial design companies. It breaks the boundaries between urban commuting and outdoor living, creating products for users' travel needs.

Insta360

Mission: To help people better record and share life. Vision: To become a world-class smart imaging brand.

Hardware: Building a comprehensive product system from professional to consumer levels to meet various imaging needs.

Software: Combining AI with imaging to lead the new trend of smart imaging and build a new future for intelligent imaging.

Industry Empowerment: Exploring industry application scenarios and understanding industry imaging needs to provide high-quality imaging solutions.

ZENS

ZENS is not just a brand, but also an open design and creative platform that collaborates with numerous renowned designers from around the globe. We provide them with a "Design Brief" and offer brand books along with the best product development engineers to assist in solving various issues in the production supply chain. Zhepin aspires for the works of different designers to have both the uniform brand identity of Zhepin and their own independent personality, ultimately designing products that truly meet the needs of users.

breo

Breo is an innovative enterprise that integrates research and development, production, and sales. Breo focuses on innovative research and development. At the beginning of its establishment, the company hired Australian designer Paul Cohen as its chief designer to launch intelligent portable massagers and related categories with the core of head, eye, neck, scalp, moxibustion, etc. Double Easy focuses on the concept of manual massage in product development, providing users with a more convenient and comfortable massage experience through techniques such as acupoint massage, pinching, kneading, and hot compress.After more than 20 years of development, Breo has led the industry in technology research and product design. It has been awarded the titles of National High tech Enterprise, National Intellectual Property Advantage Enterprise, Guangdong Province Intellectual Property Advantage Enterprise, Guangdong Province Intellectual Property Demonstration Enterprise, and Shenzhen Intellectual Property Advantage Enterprise. Its products are exported to dozens of countries and regions around the world.

XCHOOL

"Xuegu" is both a brand and a methodology for creating things. Innovation is about moving forward and going through a process of trial and error, while "Xuegu" is about looking back to find what is right. The product creation philosophy of "Xuegu" brings us a different kind of creativity. We adopt the core values of "Xuegu," everyday use, cultural quality, user-friendliness, and integration. By combining culture, technology, and intelligent manufacturing, we interpret the translation methods of Chinese traditional culture, study the thoughts and experiences of ancient Chinese creators, and extract the essence of Chinese classical aesthetics and traditional craftsmanship. We re-examine the mission and significance of design, reinvent the aesthetics of traditional Eastern culture through modern design, and fully integrate it into the daily life scenarios of modern people. Our aim is to provide every user with a unique high-quality Eastern lifestyle solution. Making the Eastern way of life happier!

NEXY.CO

User Positioning: NEXY.CO's core consumers - wise and beautiful big female main, is a group of wise and beautiful women who are active in the political, economic and cultural arena, they have wisdom, insight, taste and influence, they are the backbone of the society. Product Positioning: NEXY.CO is oriented to urban intelligent women, providing fashionable workplace-based multi-occasion dresses, to create a sensible, simple, intelligent and beautiful brand style. Knowledgeable, exudes urban women's rich experience, fashion leader temperament; simple, bursting out of urban women to simplify, clean and sharp temperament; wisdom and beauty, inspired by urban women inside and outside the cultivation of both spirit and form of the aura. Market Positioning: China's first-tier luxury women's clothing brand.

GANI

(hereinafter referred to as ‘Gani’ or ‘the company’) was founded in 2002, is a collection of research and development, production and marketing as one of the large-scale building ceramics private enterprises. The original name of Foshan City, changed to its current name in 2020, is headquartered in Foshan, with two modern production bases in Qingyuan, Guangdong and Wuzhou, Guangxi. Gani as a domestic marble tile category pioneer, since 2009 has been focusing on high-end marble tiles. At present, Gani is not only the leading enterprise in marble tile industry, the first batch of Foshan standard product recognition enterprise, the first batch of key trademark protection list enterprises in Guangdong Province, but also the only one in the industry to obtain the ‘National High-tech Enterprises’, ‘National Green Factory It is the only enterprise in the industry that has been awarded ‘National High-tech Enterprise’, ‘National Green Factory’ and ‘Clean Production in Guangdong Province’ at the same time, and won the Quality Award of Foshan Municipal Government in 2021 and the Nomination Award of Guangdong Provincial Government QualityAward in 2022.

GAC Automotive Research & Development Center

Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd. (referred to as GAC Group, 601238.SH, 02238.HK) was established in June 1997, with its headquarters located in Zhujiang New Town, Tianhe District, Guangzhou. The company currently has 113,000 employees and covers six major business segments (R&D, whole vehicles, parts, trade services, financial services, and mobility services), ranking 165th among the Fortune Global 500 companies in 2023. Established in 2006, GAC Research Institute serves as the technical management department and the hub of the group's R&D system. Its core responsibilities include the independent development of products, the formulation and implementation of independent technology plans, and the overall coordination of the group's technical management work.

yoose

yoose always stands with young people, exploring and shaping uniquecultural symbols of the present. As a cultural carrier, we collaborate withevery artist and brand with dedication. Each product launch is flled withsurprises, reflecting deep resonance from within, Starting with the MlNrazor, Yoose has continuously upgraded its technology, integrating moreproduct lines into contemporary life. This allows more people to enjoyhigh-quality products while experiencing extraordinary artistry.

AMIRO

Our story starts in 2015. Built on our belief that everyone deservesto feel good while looking in the mirror, AMIRO was founded with adream to make the at-home skincare experience accessible andeffective.Since the launch of our first intelligent Makeup Mirror, we enabledyou to see yourself clearly in the best light by bringing the idealmake-up room to you.Yet,perfecting the makeup backgroundwas just the beginning. That's why we extended the coreoptoelectronic technology into developing our facial devices andhair removal devices. Our entire collection of products aim toinspire you to feel good while looking in the mirror.

TOKIT

Yang Hua, the founder and CEO of Chunmi, realized that whatChunmi needs to not only subvert tradition with 3C quality,intelligence and functional aesthetics, but also inject newgenes of warm smart kitchen into the industry, so as to leadthe new forms of life in kitchen in the future.TOKIT was born from a good deal of drawings, models,brainstorming activities,projects,experiments, demonstrations,adjustments, and even repeated cycles day and night.In March 2019, TOKIT, a high-end brand of Internet kitchenappliances, was officially launched. Through the integration ofhardware, software, platform, content and application, TOKIThas brought a newecological form for kitchens, whileconstantly iterating and upgrading it, and written deliciousrecipes in the memory into shareable standardized cookingcurves, so that every user can experience easy cooking andinteresting life brought by smart kitchen.

inSpace

inSpace is dedicated to exploring and innovating leading technologies such as artificial intelligenceand internet of things. We develop high-quality intelligent hardware products and digital spacesolutions for all scenarios. Our core team consists of technology elites from Xiaomi, Tencent, andFoxconn, with end-to-end software and hardware R&D capabilities.We aim to empower upstream and downstream enterprises across industries. Our focus is onproviding intelligent products and services for smart homes, long-term rental apartments, healthcare.offices, hotels, hospitals and other commercial spaces.

ziinlife

Product innovation is the foundational driving force behind theziinlife brand. Unconstrained byanyspecific style, ziinlife draws frommeticulous observations and research on daily life, urban spaces.societal culture, and material technology, Through simple yet mean-ingful designs, the brand identifies and anticipates potentialproblems, offering original and innovative solutions.For example, research into the living conditions of different groupsled to the creation of ziinlife's early"spacial wisdom"series. For usersinterested in soft furnishings for pre-decorated homes, ziinlifeintroduced the "life explorer" and "design our times" series, designedto adapt to various interior conditions while enhancing the aestheticqualityofthe space.

Tezign

Tezign's mission is to empower the imagination of business and society with technology. Just as the name Tezign (Tezign) implies: Tezign (Special Fee) = Tech (Technological Innovation) + Design (Content Creativity). Since starting the business in 2015, we have always focused on the integration of technology and creativity, and are committed to building a digital new infrastructure for creative content.Around the enterprise content workflow, Tezign has built a digital platform that connects internal and external content production, content management, and content application, helping brands to drive growth with content. Tezign has served more than 800 enterprises and has successfully helped more than 200 large and medium-sized enterprises such as Alibaba, ByteDance, Unilever, Shiseido, Bayer, Budweiser, Ant Financial, Ping An Group, Nestlé, Tencent, and L'Oréal to build a content platform and upgrade their content strategy.

LENOVO

Lenovo Group is one of the first companies in China to introduce the design profession and apply it toproduct design innovation and the commercialization of technological achievements.Lenovo's design department, established in 1996, has grown into a nearly 200-member multi-disciplinary, cross-industry, andcross-regional team. lts scope of work has expanded from the initial focus on industrial design to include hardware andsoftware product design, user research, packaging, materials, and now encompasses experience design, service design.scenario design, brand design, and exhibition design. This growth trajectory not only demonstrates Lenovo's commitment todesian but also reflects the development of Chinese domestic design. Lenovo is the first IT company in China to have adesign team leader serve as a corporate vice president, which, to some extent, signifies the increasing importance of designin the Chinese business world. Over years of accumulaion and development, Lenovo's design team has won nearly all of theworld's design awards, including the IDEA Gold Award, the Red Dot best of best, the iF Gold Award, G-Mark, China's RedStar Supreme Gold Award, and many other national and international design honors.

Step 1: Log in to the official website:

Access BDA' s official website (https://www.bdaward.com) and enter the submission system.

Step 2: Check the status:

Finalist / Click on the work or brand list to check the status. If the participation status shows enter into the final evaluation, it means the work or brand has successfully advanced to the final evaluation.

Nomination Award / Click on the work list to check the status. If it shows Nomination Award, it means the work has won the "Nomination Award".

Regarding Return Shipping: Works that are not selected for the final evaluation will be gradually returned after November 1st, or will be exhibited at the Better Design Award Winners Exhibition. Please be patient.

Important Finalist Reminder: Finalist works and brands must submit electronic materials. For detailed requirements, please refer to the finalist notification email. Be sure to submit by 5:30 p.m. on October 28th. For specific requirements, please check the → Better Design Award Finalist Guidelines.

Final Evaluation Preview

The competition is about to enter the final evaluation phase. According to the rules, the BDA Organizing Committee will invite renowned design experts from both domestic and international fields to form a final review jury. They will participate in an in-person evaluation and defense session to select the winners of each award. The final results will be announced at the awards ceremony in December 2024. Stay tuned!