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Empowered healthcare consumers bring to medical devices the high expectations formed from their experiences with highly intuitive consumer products—as well as greater risk.

Not every product design is a home run. Here are 15 products we think could use some design help.

We’ve been experimenting with a new methodology for designing medical devices with hardware/software interactions. Here’s what a new, holistic development process might look like.

Next-generation medical devices with hardware-software interactions need a new, holistic development methodology.

Within every organization, innovation wants to thrive. Here’s what it looks like when organizations dismantle the obstacles that stand in the way.

A coffee pod system without a plastic pod. Headphones that read your mind. A touch-sensitive prosthetic hand. Check out the biggest innovations to influence product design in 2022.

Here are nine examples across different sectors of how data science and machine learning can help unlock the power of your data.

Advances in data science and machine learning are transforming healthcare and public safety. Countless lives will benefit. Here are five inspiring examples.

Companies tend to become less agile and innovative as they grow. This outcome is so common that it feels inevitable. Good news: It isn’t.

Home self-testing kits have played a crucial role in managing the spread of COVID-19 in the US, but a steep environmental price is hidden in the societal benefit.

Designers have a responsibility to design a world that all want to live in. Here are three principles that can help us navigate the complexities of design decision-making and truly achieve design success.

Whenever your needs require you to conduct user research remotely, these strategies will allow you to answer the same fundamental questions as in-person methods.

Speculative design requires people to suspend their disbelief and allow their imaginations to wander. Here's one tool to ground it in reality.

We opened up wearables from leading companies to see how so much was packed into something so little.

Learn about the 5 important factors to consider when deciding between an off-the-shelf or custom embedded display for your digital interface.

What comes before and after you walk in your users' shoes? We distill empathic design into six principles for easy adoption.

How to create a successful product – whether you're designing a product that's physical, digital, or somewhere in between.

We asked our staff to nominate the biggest innovations of the past 12 months that will have an influence on product design.

In 2021 you devoured blogs about looking at old problems in new ways, unlocking your professional potential, and creating products that change the world for the better.

There’s a growing sense of urgency and renewed purpose in the design community.

Warning: I’m going to criticize and question something beloved by millions of people—stationary exercise bikes.

40-90% of consumers base their buying decisions on color. Learn how to apply user-first design thinking to finding the right color in product design.

Soaring demand for wearables has created a market saturated with the things—prompting an 18.1 percent year-over-year growth worldwide, according to Gartner.

Having trouble deciphering the FDA waterfall diagram process for medical device design and development? You’re not the only one.

A simple open-sourced design had a massive social impact—40 million face shields were produced for front-line workers fast and without expensive tooling investments.

Too many times design thinking projects fall victim to the trappings of innovation theater. Here's how not to let that happen.

More than just compensating for the loss of in-person collaboration, digital whiteboards provide clear benefits, namely reducing barriers between disciplines and fostering more open, dynamic relationships with clients.

A primer on what, how and when the discipline of human factors is used in the design and development of products.

It’s not easy keeping it together under pressure. Yet these little marvels do it every day tens of thousands of times over. Do you know how staples are made?

IoT data collection impacts data deployment, sensor selection, security, and more. It's at the core of every smart product's user experience — and success.