The 2026 Core77 Design Awards Tools Winners (opens in new tab)

The Tools category this year recognizes a Student winner: MX Surgical – Tactile XR Surgical Training by Niklas Andreasen at the Umeå Institute of Design. MX Surgical is a mobile, scalable XR training system that combines multimodal surgical tool replicas, modular pads, and mixed-reality overlays to enable realistic, repeatable surgical practice across different settings—directly addressing the shortage of hands-on training opportunities for surgical residents. Unlike existing XR training tool...