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Easier-to-Use UIs: How to win approval from users-and the FDA

Bridge Design  |  Jan 17, 2012  |   Comments (0)  |   Trackbacks (0)  |   Permalink

Bridge and Design Science jointly present a Qmed webinar on February 22, 2012 11 am PST/2 pm EST.  Diana Greenberg, Bridge's Director of User Experience and Design Science Principal & Founder, Dr Stephen Wilcox will draw on their considerable experience in designing easy to use, engaging and safe user interfaces for medical products to lead a discussion about what it takes to develop such interfaces.

Your customers have told you that your next-generation medical device must be easier to use and you’ve heard about the new FDA human factors testing that might be required.  You know you’ve got to have some kind of information display, and now you're ready to move towards creating that highly-desired, simple, engaging, and FDA approved medical user interface.  This webinar covers the fundamentals of how to go about creating such an interface and how to smooth the path through FDA HF testing.  Two companies, Bridge Design and Design Science, each with great expertise in their respective fields (UI design and human factors), will explain and illustrate how to:

  • Understand what your specific users and stakeholders mean by "ease-of-use"
  • Appreciate the fundamentals of good usability
  • Know the criteria to help you choose the right style of interface (e.g., touchscreen or soft key-based, or using other input devices)
  • Understand how to integrate a UI into the other components of your medical device or system
  • Create that customer-appealing interface
  • Develop an optimal prototype-test-iterate process with your users that will validate its usability and smooth the path to regulatory approval
  • Deliver the UI to the software development-team in a simple and clear way that is as easy to implement as possible
 Attendees of this webinar will get immediately actionable ideas on all the above topics as well as access to downloadable articles and whitepapers that provide data and further explanations of good practices and processes.

Bridge Design’s Director of User Experience, Diana Greenberg, and Design Science Principal and Founder, Steve Wilcox, will provide the core content of this webinar.

Some related items:
-These articles are from MDDI in May & July 2007 and outline Bridge's approach to designing medical UIs.
"Design Research Part 1: Creating Better User Interfaces"
"Design Research Part 2: Refining User Interfaces"
-A workshop session on touchscreens from Design & Manufacturing Conference 2011 chaired by President of Bridge Design, Bill Evans.  

Some examples of our UI work:
  • Cozmo Insulin Pump: Sets the standard for ease-of-use in this category.
  • Solis
  • AcelRx NanoTab PCA .  This recently announced delivery system integrates RF tags and a small colored screen into a small delivery device that enables secure and safe drug delivery.  




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Bridge Design to lead all day workshop about Touchscreen Interfaces

Bill Evans  |  Aug 24, 2011  |   Comments (0)  |   Trackbacks (0)  |   Permalink

If you are just beginning to think about using a touchscreen or if you already started down the path and want expert guidance, then visit us at this year’s Design & Manufacturing Midwest 2011 Conference on September 22 in Chicago. My colleague Diana Greenberg who heads Bridge’s User Experience practice and I will be leading this session. In it you'll get to understand the most crucial aspects of what you'll need to know to make the right decisions about the technology, design and development issues of bringing this great user experience to your customers. 

Also speaking is Steve Wilcox, Founder and Principal of Design Science, a Bridge partner who has worked with us on several occasions assisting with the Human Factors aspects of UIs.  He is speaking about Fitting Touch Screens to Your Users.

Bridge is also pleased that several other leading experts are working with us to make this a very informative session – see the conference agenda here for more details and the other speakers. 

The session runs on Thursday, September 22nd from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., with a 2-hour break for lunch and networking. Join your colleagues and register today to gain new insights and practical information you can immediately apply to your job responsibilities!

Register by August 26th to get the early bird discount.  Click here for more registration details. 



A recent touch screen interface for ICU blood glucose monitoring developed by Bridge with IntelliDx.




If you are interested to learn more about Bridge's approach in creating highly usable UIs prior to this workshop, see this article Bridge wrote that outlines our approach. We've refined our process quite a bit since writing this article in 2007, but it does explain the basics and has some great information on smoothing the path of how your UI will undergo scrutiny with the FDA.


 

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Innovation in MedTech Companies

Matt Presta  |  May 11, 2011  |   Comments (0)  |   Trackbacks (0)  |   Permalink
Read the new article by Bill Evans in this month's MD&DI magazine called "Lost in Translation? Innovation in MedTech Companies, from Ideas to Execution."  

Read about it here.
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20 percent of San Francisco banks on it!

Bridge Design  |  Jan 21, 2011  |   Comments (0)  |   Trackbacks (0)  |   Permalink




Bridge Design decided to ring in 2011 by volunteering at the San Francisco Food Bank.  Along with two other groups, we weighed, repacked, labeled and boxed bulks of pasta into 1 lb. bags for a total of 4000 lbs.  

The scale of operations in SF Food Bank is overwhelming.  Tons of donated canned goods and produce are provided to approximately 200,000 people through over 400 non profit partners.  This translates into approximately 1 million pounds of food passing through the food bank every single week – hence the need for so many volunteers.

Stay tuned for more Bridge Design volunteer events in 2011!

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