With the outstanding modular design, excellent user experience, and innovative integration of hardware and software ecosystems, the M5Stack Series was honored with the 2025 Good Design Award!
The Good Design Award, founded in Japan in 1957, celebrates products that combine aesthetic design with social impact. This year, the M5Stack Series stood out among thousands of entries for its modular system, open ecosystem, and design that empowers creativity across all levels.
Designed for Innovation
M5Stack is a modular prototyping tool for turning ideas into real products fast. It combines a durable enclosure, standardized expansion modules, and support for multiple programming languages. Its GUI environment, UIFlow, lowers the barrier for beginners while serving professionals, making hardware development simpler and more efficient.
Since its launch in 2017, M5Stack has built a vibrant global community of developers and educators. The series has become a common sight not only in schools, research institutions, and maker activities but also across industrial and IoT innovation projects. In Japan alone, dozens of introductory books have been published on IoT and robotics development using M5Stack.
Today, the M5Stack Series encompasses more than 400 products, widely used in education, industry, and embedded systems, significantly enhancing rapid development and fostering innovation.
Evaluation Comments from Jury members
The Good Design Award 2025 judges commended M5Stack :
M5Stack is a development platform featuring a modular design that allows users to freely combine a diverse lineup of modules. With its highly refined enclosure and attention to detail, it offers a level of aesthetic appeal and usability unmatched by conventional microcontroller boards—reminding users of the joy of creating tools born from their own imagination.
Supported by an active global community, M5Stack has found widespread use across various fields—from education and hobbyist projects to industrial and embedded product applications. Its standardized expansion system and GUI-based tools make it accessible for both beginners and advanced developers alike, offering a broad entry point into creative technology development.
As programming becomes more approachable in the age of AI, M5Stack is expected to play a key role in unlocking creativity across diverse groups of people, opening up new possibilities for innovation and making.
The official announcement: Good Design Award 2025 — M5Stack Seires
About GOOD DESIGN AWARD
GOOD DESIGN AWARD is a social movement to make people's lives, industries, and society more well-off through design. Since its start in 1957, it has gained widespread support along with its logo G Mark. GOOD DESIGN AWARD is for products, architecture, software, systems, and services that are relevant to people. Whether visible or invisible, anything that is constructed for some ideal or purpose is considered as design, and its quality is evaluated and honored.
The GOOD DESIGN AWARD helps people to discover the possibilities of design and expand the fields where design can be used through screening and a wide range of promotion, and is dedicated to a well-off society where everyone can enjoy creative life.
The M5Stack Series has been officially included in the GOOD DESIGN AWARD Gallery, which archives and showcases all award-winning works by year since its establishment in 1957.
About M5Stack
Founded in 2017, M5Stack creates modular, open-source hardware development tools designed to streamline prototyping and productization. Based in Shenzhen, China, M5Stack has become a globally recognized developer platform for IoT, AIoT, and robotics solutions.
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