Summative Usability Testing: Why and How to Do It
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 [...]
Opportunity Mining: Fill Your Medical Product Pipeline with Innovations
A medical product company’s lifeblood is their product pipeline. Keeping it full of high quality opportunities is one of the most important jobs of the executive team. If you’re running an [...]
Medical Device Workflow Is Not The Same As User Experience
People use your medical device differently than you think they do. It doesn’t matter what you say during training, or write in a manual or formal “instructions for use” document. Personal [...]
5 steps for making your medical product look “less medical”
“Just don’t make it look medical.” As we research what people want in a home health product, this is what we hear most frequently. Typically, this distaste for a medical look becomes [...]
The Misunderstood Engineering Prototype
In developing a new medical device, some start-ups proceed with a high degree of confidence that their core technology engineering prototype should become faithfully transformed into the actual [...]
Beware of Faltering Design Commitment
In developing a medical device, agreement on a design approach brings with it no guarantee that the product will ultimately appear and function as expected. sometimes subtle viewpoint differences [...]
