This article highlights the benefits of rigorously integrating usability design into the development of patient or layperson-operated combination devices used in home-based healthcare.
This article highlights the benefits of rigorously integrating usability design into the development of patient or layperson-operated combination devices used in home-based healthcare.
Often the aesthetic of a device or system experience is considered a commercial objective and even a tertiary, superficial aspect of design development in the healthcare ecosystem.
User preference and evaluation studies have been a mainstay design tool for medical device development innovation for decades. To veteran engineers, this design tool is simply good practice.
If you're involved in healthcare product design or are passionate about creating impactful medical devices, this article is a must-read!
It is becoming common knowledge Human Factors Engineering (HFE), also known as Usability Engineering (UE), is required as part of most medical device development.
It is an exciting time to be a medical device design engineer. Development opportunities abound as medical device manufacturers (MDMs) seek to make smaller, more complex, and more functional devices.