Best Practices for Medical Device Design: Five Strategies for Success

The medical industry is behind the times when it comes to user-centered design and user experience. Healthcare professionals are demanding a consumer product level experience. “Make it like my iPhone” is a phrase we have all heard. UX (user experience) positions and UX boot camps are starting to emerge in large medical companies to solve this problem but plugging in a prescribed process won’t cut it. When it comes to medical device design, the stakes are higher, the environments more extreme, and the technology more complex, not to mention the reign of regulatory.