There’s an opportunity to improve lives but it requires creativity within a well-defined process to impact the market.
It is a challenge to create a unique interventional device for medical professionals. They need surgical tools that are intuitive and specific to their operating environments. To maximize impact, your clinical tests must demonstrate efficacy, safety, but also user preference for your innovation.
Meeting this challenge requires a cross-disciplinary team that emphasizes user research, human factors engineering, mechanical engineering, regulatory awareness, and design for manufacturing.
Designing Devices to Support Surgeon Ergonomics
As more procedures become minimally invasive, surgeons will be subjected to greater physical strain as they manipulate tools inside smaller spaces. Dexterity, precision, control, and comfort drive success. Ergonomically driven design - dexterity, precision, control, and comfort - guides a successful medical device development process from initial concept to product launch.
We apply user research and design-thinking processes influenced by practitioner feedback to enhance safety, effectiveness, and quality of life while decreasing the risk of patient or workplace injury.
We lead user research studies with physicians and support staff to identify user needs and explore potential functions and features. A great user experience is rarely the easiest engineering path. That’s why we integrate industrial design in our process to represent the user experience at every touch point in the workflow.
Turn Impossible into an Opportunity
Unique user needs. Complex environments. Constrained access. Successful interventional tools balance competing requirements to empower practitioners. Even modest design improvements can separate a new device from the pack but also create significant development challenges for interventional surgical tools.
Other Medical Areas We Specialize In
Home Health
Wearable Devices
Imaging and Therapeutic Ultrasound
Photobiomodulation
Minimally Invasive Surgical Tools
Medical Instruments
Pharmaceutical Delivery
Point-of-care Diagnostics
Let’s Create Something Together
If you’re looking to innovate with a novel interventional tool, reach for a team that is up to the challenge:
Mechanical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Software Engineering
Manufacturing Strategy and Support
Project Management
Quality Engineering and Compliance
Human Factors and Industrial Design
Ideation and Innovation
Usability Studies and User Research