IBM IT automation solutions gain further recognition with prestigious Indigo Design Awards

Indigo Design Awards for IBM Instana and IBM Turbonomic

After winning the iF Design Award, we’re proud to share that both IBM Instana and IBM Turbonomic have now been honored with the prestigious Indigo Design Award for 2026. This recognition reflects the strength of our IT automation products and the partnership of Product and Design in delivering exceptional, user‑centered experiences.

Indigo Design Award: A mark of excellence

The Indigo Design Award, founded in 2017, is an international competition that celebrates outstanding creativity, innovation, and visual excellence across design fields worldwide, making this recognition especially meaningful. It is more than just a title; it is a milestone for designers and the products they support. Congratulations to the IBM Instana and IBM Turbonomic teams! Your craftsmanship, collaboration, and passion for meaningful design continue to raise the bar for our industry.

IBM Instana

Category: Digital Tools and Utilities for Digital Design

IBM Instana is an enterprise platform that offers full-stack visibility across cloud-native, hybrid, and on-premises environments. It uses AI and automation to help DevOps and IT teams detect and solve issues, monitor performance, and optimize operations in real time. Instana received an Indigo Gold Award for its Intelligent Remediation experience — a design that simplifies complexity through intuitive workflows and smart visualizations. This approach enables faster understanding, clearer decision‑making, and confident action during critical moments.

The incident page provides all the information users need to solve problems quickly.

The win for Instana highlights a user interface designed to help teams operate effectively in highly complex application environments with speed, accuracy, and confidence.

Congratulations to the Instana design team and contributors: Shanaya Vaz, Samruddhi Kopargaonkar, Vaishnvi Maniyar, Brad Eller, Sayan Chakraborty, Prajakta Hambir, Holly King, Fabienne Schoeman, Britta Binning, and Stacy Doyle.

IBM Turbonomic

Category: UX, Interface & Navigation for Digital Design

IBM Turbonomic is an Application Resource Management solution that transforms IT operations by ensuring applications always have the resources they need. It provides full-stack visualization, analytical insights, operationalized elasticity, and AI-driven automation that allows users to respond to the ever-changing demands of their applications. Turbonomic received an Indigo Silver Award for the redesigned Carbon experience, which uses the Carbon Design System to craft outstanding outcomes. The updated user experience delivers a seamless, productive interface, empowering users to optimize application performance and resource utilization across their entire IT infrastructure.

Turbonomic displays a global view of an organization’s ecosystem

The win for Turbonomic emphasizes how the Carbon Design System provides a cohesive language for users to navigate the interface and easily understand where they are and what they’re doing.

Congratulations to the Turbonomic design team and contributors:

Randy Gregory, Mike McCurry, Olivia Moten, Vedya Konda, Matthew Beasley, Caroline Laszcz, Corey Brinkmann, Hannah Morgan, Jason Groves, Adam Kaynan, Annapoorani Muthuraman, Lily Olive, Nazar Horay, Darsana Jayaraj, Ummer Farooq, Zameer Rehmani, Tristan Free, Simon Lyu, and Stacy Doyle.

Robert Uthe is a Vice President for IT Automation Design and Product Management at IBM, based in Raleigh, NC, USA. The above article is personal and does not necessarily represent IBM’s positions, strategies, or opinions.

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