Ian Chalmers

Founder & Design Director, Pivot Design Group

DesignTorontoOn TechTO stages since 2017

Ian Chalmers founded Pivot Design Group, a Toronto agency that has worked in user-centred and healthcare design since 1998, and is its design director. He also started DesignMeets, a design-talk series, in 2010. At a 2017 TechTO health event he showed projects including Cloud DX and a post-stroke therapy tool with Toronto Rehab.

On the TechTO stage ×1

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HealthTO Profile: Pivot Design Group

TechTO · April 2017

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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2017. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Ian ↗

In their words

experience user-centered design company that works primarily in health care

TechTO, Apr 2017 · watch at 1:06 ↗

discovery and that's where we get to sort of really understand a problem

TechTO, Apr 2017 · watch at 1:57 ↗

was the only Canadian company to make it into the finals at the qualcomm tricorder xprize

TechTO, Apr 2017 · watch at 4:38 ↗

A few quotes can’t cover everything Ian said on the TechTO stage. 1,600+ talks are searchable.Ask about Ian ↗

Around the web ×1

Podcast

01: Ian Chalmers on listening to CanadiansNorthward: Canada's Design Future

2025

Quick answers

Who is Ian Chalmers?

The founder and design director of Pivot Design Group, a Toronto user-centred design agency working mainly in healthcare since 1998.

What else has he built?

He founded DesignMeets, a design-talk series running since 2010.

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