The unique joy of building physical products — Flowtica Scribe wins the 2026 iF Design Award

There’s a unique joy in building physical products, and winning recognition from the industrial design community is definitely a very important part of that.

I’m really honored that @Flowtica Scribe has received the 2026 iF Design Award — it feels like the design world is validating exactly why we do this.

From the very beginning, our ambition wasn’t just to build another state-of-the-art AI agent efficiency tool. Of course we want Scribe to be the best possible at the intelligence layer. But more importantly, we wanted to create something real in the atomic world: a tangible, beautifully textured efficiency tool that people genuinely love to use and appreciate as an aesthetic experience.

That’s why we spent countless hours obsessing over details most people may never consciously notice — the perfect weight balance of the pen, the satisfying tactility of the button, the quiet confidence of the vibration feedback, and that seamless handoff between real ink on paper and the AI side. All driven by one simple question: How do people actually think in real, messy moments?

This award is a beautiful reminder that good design doesn’t demand attention. It quietly supports your thinking and feels delightful in your hands.

I’m genuinely looking forward to more people getting Flowtica Scribe in their own hands and experiencing its unique charm.

If you’re into thoughtful hardware that lives in the atomic world, I’d love to hear from you:

What’s one physical tool or object (pen, notebook, gadget — anything) that has genuinely changed how you capture ideas or reflect?

(For me it was always a nice fountain pen + notebook… until we started building this :)