User Insights & Design Research
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What is a Formative Usability Evaluation? (And Why Does Your Medical Device Need It?)
by Paul Klock Posted Nov 01, 2022 In Medical Product Design, User Insights & Design Research
The most successful medical devices aren’t just safe and effective. They also make their end users’ lives easier. Unfortunately, an excellent user experience (UX) is far from inevitable. In fact, a great UX sets medical devices apart precisely because designing a truly user-centric expe [...]
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Why User Needs Matter During Medical Device Development
by Elyse Hallett Posted Apr 18, 2022 In User Insights & Design Research
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. Put simply: You must understand your e [...]
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Your Medical Device’s User Interface Specification Is More Powerful Than You Think
by Chris Ross Posted Sep 21, 2021 In Medical Product Design, User Insights & Design Research
The FDA requires user interface specifications for medical devices. But your user interface specification can and should be more than a requirement or regulatory box to check. After all, a robust specification establishes design specs, which inform the experience users ultimately have wi [...]
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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
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 intentions. Designing medical devices [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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
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 interact with daily. There is a good reas [...]
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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
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. When you hear “user experience,” yo [...]
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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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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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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
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 easy comprehension, IFUs are seldom ea [...]
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Our Discovery Workshop – How We Uncover Essential Project Criteria
by Ryan Held Posted May 29, 2019 In Medical Product Design, User Insights & Design Research
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 won’t begin a major medical product desig [...]
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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
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 design is the result of truly understan [...]
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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
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. Imagine developing any of those products withou [...]
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