Motorola & Zebra
Design Work

1999-2021

With over 20 years of influence in the ADC Group of Motorola, Symbol and Zebra Technologies, Thinkable has worked on everything from High-end Retail to Rugged Industrial settings and from detailed Concepts to full Production designs. As highly engineering-focussed companies, the designs required a high attention to detail and specification in assembly and plastic part injection molding.

Our collaboration also extended to a range of supporting accessories and products, as well as patent applications, visualisations and UI exploration.

A collage of dozens of design sketches across multiple product lines

Over 20 Years.

More than 50 products.

Motorola MC70 handheld terminal on a table covered in water
A hand-mounted barcode scanner against a yellow-orange background
Motorola 9808 against a white background
Motorola 9208 rotation capability side view
Symbol LS1908 being held against a circular gradient yellow-orange background
A prototype barcode reader design with an exposed scan engine
  • A cut-away sketch of the HC1 optics pod with rough component layout and hand-written annotations

    Detail engineering and component placement

  • A sketch of a proposed front-to-back assembly of the DS9808

    Assembly ideation

  • A side-view sketch with hand-written annotations about materials

    CMF exploration

  • A sketch of a hand-mounted barcode scanner while holding a parcel

    Ergonomics and use-case scenarios

Top down view many Motorola and Zebra products on a table