Medical Product Design
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What Can You Learn From COVID-19 About Good Design?
by Carmen Cumming Posted May 19, 2020 In Design Strategy, Medical Product Design
As medical product developers, we observe design every day in what we see and interact with, learning from the problems of the past and using those insights to fuel our ideas for new products. So what can we, as designers, engineers, and creators learn as COVID-19 spreads across the globe? Is there [...]
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The 6 Reasons Medical Device Companies Skip Formative User Testing – and Why They Shouldn’t
by Chris Ross Posted May 12, 2020 In Design Strategy, Medical Product Design
Other than clinical efficacy, a medical device’s ability to meet its users’ needs is the most important predictor of success. For that reason, medical device development should begin with an assessment of user needs. It should return to those needs over and over again throughout the development [...]
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Top 5 Tips For Designing User-Friendly, CLIA-Waived Medical Diagnostics
by Paul Klock Posted May 04, 2020 In Industrial Design, Medical Product Design, User Interface Design
Patients (and their doctors) are increasingly seeking out speedy results from medical tests. As a result, more and more medical device companies are producing streamlined versions of complex diagnostics that were originally developed for centralized laboratories and hospitals. These new versions a [...]
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How to Start with an MVP to Build a Best-in-Class Software-Driven Medical Device
by John Salisbury Posted Apr 26, 2020 In Medical Product Design, User Interface Design
Developing a new medical device is an enormous undertaking — one that requires a major investment of time and resources. From
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Summative Usability Testing: Why and How to Do It
by Chris Ross Posted Apr 20, 2020 In Human Factors & Usability Testing, Medical Product Design
The business of introducing new medical devices requires us to address enormous technical challenges that require plenty of hard work. As we strive to meet these challenges, the FDA reminds us not to lose sight of
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Design for Simplicity to Earn the CLIA Waiver
by Chris Ross Posted Apr 08, 2020 In Design Strategy, Medical Product Design, User Insights & Design Research
When we’re ill, a speedier diagnosis will help you get better faster by shortening the time between seeing a doctor and receiving treatment. To meet rising patient expectations for instant test results, diagnostic device makers are moving tests from hospitals and centralized laboratories to cli [...]
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White Paper: How Consumer Products Will Influence Medical Devices in 2020 and Beyond
by Carmen Cumming Posted Mar 24, 2020 In Design Strategy, Healthcare Trends, Medical Product Design, User Insights & Design Research
The line between medical devices and consumer products used to be very clear. But with the development of new consumer technologies and the trend toward home health and wearable medical devices, all of that is starting to change. Why is that? How exactly are consumer products influencing the medi [...]
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The Fundamentals of Product Design Research
by Ryan Held Posted Mar 23, 2020 In Design Strategy, Medical Product Design
In medical product development, the term "research" can mean many different things depending on who you ask. It's easy to get lost in the phases, requirements and ownership of research activities. Below, we'll take a look at a few types of product development research and expand on the most misunder [...]
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The Right Medical Device Starts with a House of Quality Matrix
by Shane Fedon Posted Mar 10, 2020 In Design Strategy, Medical Product Design
When medical device companies start planning a new device, they often jump ahead and begin with the bells and whistles. They spec out flashy new features and plan out unexpected ways to execute elements that are ordinarily mundane. In doing so, these companies put the cart before the horse To ill [...]
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Design to Innovate — Not Just to Manufacture
by Kevin Larmer Posted Mar 02, 2020 In Engineering, Medical Product Design
The development of medical devices can follow many different paths depending on a myriad of inputs: new technology, cost, market adoption, etc. At Mindflow, we see many projects that focus on two of these paths: products focused on efficiency in manufacturing and those focused on design innovati [...]
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Why You Need a Strategic Facilitator to Guide Your Medical Device Development Project
by Chris Ross Posted Feb 24, 2020 In Design Strategy, Medical Product Design
For many companies, the first step in producing the right medical device is hiring the right design and engineering partner. In fact, hiring the wrong one can be catastrophic. The unfortunate thing is, you might not know you’ve made the wrong choice until it’s too late. The reason [...]
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Which Regulatory Requirements Apply to My Medical Device?
by Andy Moulds Posted Feb 11, 2020 In Design Strategy, Medical Product Design
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1616615699542{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"]The medical device industry is highly regulated. For good reason. These regulations exist to protect patients and consumers by ensuring the safety and efficacy of medical devices. Of course, medical [...]
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Don’t Just Listen to Your Users — Watch Them, Too
by Paul Klock Posted Jan 28, 2020 In Human Factors & Usability Testing, Medical Product Design
It goes without saying that medical devices should be both safe and effective. But those qualities are really just the baseline. If a product is safe and effective but doesn’t actually solve users’ problems, it won’t matter. To put it another way, the real measure of a medical device’s succe [...]
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After the Designs are Done: Why Your Medical Device Needs an Agency’s Support Phase
by John Salisbury Posted Jan 02, 2020 In Engineering, Medical Product Design
If you’re considering partnering with an agency to help you realize your vision for a new medical device, you already know you need outside expertise for the design phase of your project. But what happens after everyone signs off on a final version of the completed designs? Whether your product is [...]
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Demystifying the Human Factors Plan for Medical Device Projects
by Chris Ross Posted Dec 17, 2019 In Medical Product Design, User Insights & Design Research
Over the past few years the FDA has increased their emphasis on the importance of applying sound human factors procedures during medical device development. That means they’ve increased their scrutiny of submissions and their expectations for how medical device makers will ensure the safety of peo [...]
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