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Aesthetics in the Design Process
The medical device and life science industries have traditionally taken their design cues from other industries, such as automotive, consumer products, and commercial applications. In some ways, they still do. However, medical device designs are incorporating many of...
Checkpoints to consider for Design
When starting any project, there are checkpoints for design that help drive the end product. At a company like HSD that has always been a medical and life science product development firm, the roots of the company and leadership have always been in design. Design is...
Importance of design
The current state of Industrial Design and User Interface Design In the past, medical product design firms would get caught up in the importance of quality, ISO 13485, and human factors etc. Today medical device design is an extremely regulated industry and for most,...
Michael Quinn talks about Six Sigma Design
Six Sigma means different things to different people, depending on where they are in the product development life cycle. It'll mean something very different at the start of a program versus at the end of a program when a product reaches the manufacturing phase. Six...
What are Human Factors
10 years ago, while human factors were important in consumer products, they were not necessarily a common point of emphasis in the design of a product or medical device. In layman's terms, a company or person could create something that was utterly uncomfortable,...
I have a prototype. It Works! Now What?
For a product development firm to engage with a start-up group, they could come in at any stage really. How they’re engaged depends on the goals of the companies that come in. For startups specifically, it could mean that they need help taking their idea or their...
Podcast: Solving Complex Problems to Create State of the Art Medical Devices
Industrial design as a whole is a wide open and diverse field that touches lives every day in nearly every activity. The big differentiation between industrial design in consumer product development and medical product development are the certification processes and...
Advice for Designing Home Healthcare Devices
In-home medical devices constitute a wide range of products, from prosthetic and orthotic appliances to home monitoring devices to medical wearables. But with all the progress that digital healthcare provides, medical device designers face a new challenge: how to infuse products redolent of disease and decline with intuitiveness, comfort, and even delight.
Excerpts from 10x Medical – Mitigating User Risk
When we talk about considering capabilities and limitations, we’re talking really about how big they are, their age, their dexterity, their training and education, their experience, and their culture.
DESIGN VALIDATION VS. HUMAN FACTORS VALIDATION
Human factors and risk create a lot of confusion in the medical device industry. This Podcast talks about what you need to know from a design control perspective.
Mary Beth sheds light on the challenges with FDA 510k submissions
Dr. Mary Beth Privitera, FIDSA, Principal at HS Design responsible for human factors and research is widely known as a human factors expert. She currently serves as faculty and co-chair of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation’s Human...
The Value of ISO 13485 in a Design Centric, Medical Product Development Firm
What is ISO 13485? This is the easy part; ISO 13485 specifies requirements for a quality management system (QMS) where an organization needs to demonstrate its ability to provide medical devicen development and related services that consistently meet customer and...
Good Design…its the little things
By Matt Tramontana When the design direction of a product has been established and approved by the client, working through the detailed elements of a design begins. As an industrial designer, the responsibility of applying the finishing touches to a design can be an...
The Top 10 “Musts” of Digital UX for Medical Devices
By Maureen Mullins, UX/UI Design To the UX/UI Designers at HS Design, experience design is where people meet products. At HSD, we work to streamline experiences by reducing cognitive load, minimizing tasks, and promoting desired behaviors. For digital user interfaces...
The Model is Mightier than the CAD
By Stephen Simantiras As technology evolves and shapes our industry, many industrial designers and engineers find themselves jumping straight into CAD, hoping to have 3D prototypes built quickly for rapid user testing. CAD, along with 3D printing, allows for amazing...