Tenhex began as a consultancy firm in 2005, acting as a systems integrator for companies requiring specific design assistance. Our primary focus was established around developing and configuring Solid State Lighting (SSL) systems based on high power LEDs. Before founding Tenhex, we had worked with high power LEDs since 2001, becoming an early adopter for the emerging technology of high power LEDs. After dedicating much of our research, development and design to LED technology we decided to launch Tenhex. Soon after we began to focus more specifically on designing our own high power LED technology, providing innovative product based solutions for the optoelectronics industry.
Tenhex's founding members had formative beginnings both as industrial designers and engineers. As a company stemming from both disciplines, we observed an interesting philosophical dichotomy as developers relating to a product. This separated the development path of a product designer from an engineer. We realized that as product designers we acquiesce to the exterior form of an object. From that vantage point, a product designer works inward to establish a resolution for a product. We also realized as engineers we were conditioned to look inward for the finite challenges of a product and work out to find a solution. We understood that product development from both perspectives would typically render different results. We realized it was imperative to harness the performance of engineering and the function of product design. From these two ideologies we observed a fundamental breakdown due to a reverse bias perspective in the development cycle of a product. We found that this commonly rendered a product that would not live up to the performance expectations set forth during its conception. Professionally we had experienced these breakdowns in the design process working for other companies. It became our objective early on to reinvent the way we as a company looked at the development cycle of a product. Tenhex set forth to create a new design philosophy that would eradicate these breakdowns by generating a system of integration for the process of product development. Ironically this forced us to change the way we looked at product altogether.