Create Valuable Medical Products with Human Factors Integrated Design
HFE should be a core component of the medical device design process. Here’s why uninformed teams get it wrong and how your team can get it right.
Preserve Your Device’s Value Proposition: Bridging the Marketing vs Development Gap
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 [...]
When (and How) to Integrate Usability into Your Medical Product Development
Human factors and usability activities play a vital role in medical product development. Not only do they help provide insight for development, they are also closely tied to risk management and [...]
Translating User Needs Into Actionable Design Inputs
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 [...]
Reducing Risk of Medical Products Through Prototyping
Prototypes are the cornerstone of medical device development. They are powerful and important tools that transform ideas, thoughts and theories into something real. Prototypes also become a [...]
The Fundamentals of Product Design Research
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 [...]
