User Insights & Design Research

Why User Needs Matter During Medical Device Development

by Elyse Hallett Posted Apr 18, 2022 In User Insights & Design Research

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]To market any type of product successfully, it’s important to identify how people will use it and what difference it will make in their lives. [...]

Preserve Your Device’s Value Proposition: Bridging the Marketing vs Development Gap

by Ryan Held Posted Feb 11, 2021 In Medical Product Design, User Insights & Design Research

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As a medical device marketer, you go to great pains to identify a unique value proposition for each new device your company creates. But — and here's the rub — by the time a medical device goes to market, the end results don't always match your original int [...]

How to Create a Winning Usability Engineering File for FDA Submissions

by Chris Ross Posted Jan 15, 2021 In Medical Product Design, User Insights & Design Research

There is a good chance that your medical device development team isn’t fully considering the needs of your clients when making key design decisions. While all the obvious information may be neatly organized in a product requirements document supporting your FDA submission, there’s more to it tha [...]

Translating User Needs Into Actionable Design Inputs

by Ryan Held Posted Sep 22, 2020 In User Insights & Design Research

Developing a medical device first requires defining precisely what that product is supposed to do. Discussion among stakeholders often elicits vastly divergent ideas. The challenge here is for everyone to get on the same page before any useful product development decisions can be made. You need to m [...]

Apply the Top UX/UI Design Trends to Make Your Device’s Software Stand Out

by John Salisbury Posted Jul 30, 2020 In Design Strategy, Medical Product Design, User Insights & Design Research

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It is essential to pay attention to emerging user experience trends in regard to your medical product. User experiences for software serving the medical industry have traditionally run a bit behind the consumer-based user experiences found in the apps people int [...]

Want to Create the Most User-Friendly Medical Device? You Need Benchmarking

by Paul Klock Posted Jul 20, 2020 In Design Strategy, Medical Product Design, User Insights & Design Research

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Whether you’re developing a new medical device or updating an existing one, you already know that your success hinges on your product’s user experience. A well-designed, user-friendly device can separate you from the competition and drive brand loyalty.

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

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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 hos [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

5 Top Tips to Create Effective Quick Guides for Complex Medical Products

by John Salisbury Posted Oct 29, 2019 In Medical Product Design, User Insights & Design Research

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The FDA recommends that all medical products with some level of complexity include appropriate instructions for use (IFU). Doing so ensures the user will be able to fully understand how to utilize the product. While the FDA’s recommendations are geared toward [...]

Our Discovery Workshop – How We Uncover Essential Project Criteria

by Ryan Held Posted May 29, 2019 In Medical Product Design, User Insights & Design Research

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Medical device companies can’t develop products without first understanding what their customers need.  (In the same fashion, physicians can’t treat patients without first understanding their ailments.)

The diagnostic phase is critical. In fact, we w [...]

The Key to New Product Development? Fresh User Insights & Market Knowledge

by Ryan Held Posted Apr 24, 2019 In Medical Product Design, User Insights & Design Research

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Whether you’re a medical product startup working to break into a new market or an industry giant trying to defend your space, finding actionable insight based on your market's needs is a key component to new product development (NPD). Insightful, considerate d [...]

5 Strategies for Using Design Research to Develop Better Devices

by Ryan Held Posted Mar 04, 2019 In Medical Product Design, User Insights & Design Research

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The way a surgeon handles a technologically advanced instrument in the operating room. The way a respiratory therapist interacts with the display on a mobile ventilator. The way a patient uses a handheld monitor at home to measure her blood glucose.

Imagi [...]