Bucher Connect achieves double victory at the German Design Award 2026

Gold in Service Design and Winner in Web - Once again, Bucher Municipal sets new standards for digital excellence.

Bucher Connect has been honoured with two prestigious distinctions at the German Design Award 2026: 

🏆 Gold in Service Design – the highest honour and awarded only to the most outstanding project in each category. 

🌐 Winner in Web – recognising excellence in digital design, clarity, and user experience. 

This double win underlines the exceptional quality, strategic clarity, and sustainable design approach of Bucher Connect, positioning it as a benchmark for digital service platforms in the municipal and industrial sector. 

Designed to turn digital ambition into operational impact, Bucher Connect unifies data and services into a coherent ecosystem that makes daily operations more effective and transparent. By seamlessly combining technology and design, Bucher Connect empowers municipalities and customers to manage their fleets smarter and with lasting value. 

Jury Statement – German Design Award 2026 

“Real-time data is made tangible in the »Bucher Connect Digital Service Platform« in a powerful and aesthetically clear manner. The intuitive interface ensures consistent access to complex fleet processes and enables an impressive 360° view of vehicles and services. Above all, its strategic clarity and sustainable focus make this digital solution outstanding, setting a distinctive benchmark for gold-awarded projects in the web sector.” 

The German Design Award Gold is reserved for groundbreaking achievements that set new directions for entire industries. Winning Gold in Service Design – and at the same time being named Winner in Web – confirms Bucher Connect as one of the most forward-looking digital platforms in the web and service design landscape. 
 

“This double recognition shows that complex vehicle data does not have to be complicated for users,” says Roland Fröhlich, Director IoT & Digital Services Platform at Bucher Municipal. “Bucher Connect stands for what we believe in – turning real-time data into clarity, complexity into usability, and digital services into sustainable value.” 
 

With this success, Bucher Municipal continues its remarkable award trajectory, following its achievement as Master of Swiss Web 2025, where Bucher Connect was named the best Swiss web project of the year and received seven awards in total. 

These accolades confirm what customers experience every day:

Bucher Connect is not just a digital platform – it is a new benchmark for clarity, usability, and sustainability in digital service design.