Insights
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Empathic Design in Practice
What comes before and after you walk in your users' shoes? We distill empathic design into six principles for easy adoption.
Product Design Best Practices to Follow
What is product design? Do you really know what it means?
15 Biggest Innovations of 2021 to Influence Product Design
We asked our staff to nominate the biggest innovations of the past 12 months that will have an influence on product design.
2021's Top 10 Innovation and Product Design Posts
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.
The expanding definition of design
There’s a growing sense of urgency and renewed purpose in the design community.
How to stop your innovation from inspiring a Black Mirror episode
Warning: I’m going to criticize and question something beloved by millions of people—stationary exercise bikes.
Four Steps To “the Right” Color in Product Design
We developed a color selection methodology that applies user-first design thinking to finding the right color in product design.
Four ways to win the future of MedTech wearables
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.
A New, Comprehensive Medical Device Design Process Diagram
Having trouble deciphering the FDA waterfall diagram process for medical device design and development? You’re not the only one.
How to design for positive, humanity-scale impact
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.
5 Qs that stop design thinking from being innovation theater
Too many times design thinking projects fall victim to the trappings of innovation theater.
Women in design: 8 ways your origin story can make you a better designer
Women make up just 20% of professional industrial designers in the United States, according to an industry survey by Core77.
The role of human factors in product design
A primer on what, how and when the discipline of human factors is used in the design and development of products.
How are staples made?
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?
Why IoT Data Collection Is Essential To Get Right
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.
Design for Sterilization of Medical Electronics
Learn design techniques to maximize device reliability for common sterilization processes — autoclave, ethylene oxide, and ionizing radiation.
5 Ways Care Models Need to Change
When we reflect on 2020, we may come to think of it a period when we had the time to pursue simpler, do-it-yourself, pleasures like making bread or planting a garden. Many of us used the endless pandemic months to learn a new a language or take up a new outdoor sport.
Use ‘Jobs, Outcomes, and Constraints’ To Exploit the Pause Between Research and Ideation
The 'Jobs, Outcomes, and Constraints' method lets you move into ideation knowing that you're working from something more than a hunch.
CES 2021: Transportation tech promises a cleaner, safer future
The vehicle expo area of CES has been one of the most exciting parts of the trade show in recent years.
CES 2021: 5G starts revealing its potential
At CES in 2019, Verizon Chairman and CEO Hans Vestberg gave the opening keynote address about the upcoming advantages of 5G.
CES 2021: Sustainability gets its moment
In some ways, CES seems like a strange place to talk about sustainability.
CES 2021: Home is where everything is
If your home is your castle, during the pandemic it’s also your office, classroom, coffee shop/restaurant/bar, gym, entertainment venue, spa, and, yeah, that place where you sleep.
CES 2021: Digital health explodes
Here’s a mind-blowing set of statistics for you: prior to 2020, only 24 percent of healthcare systems offered any form of virtual care.
CES 2021: Healthcare, technology & COVID-19
In early 2020, Abbott Laboratories recognized the need for COVID-19 testing and used their massive resources to ramp up production quickly.
Must-reads for innovation
Being home more in 2020 meant a little more down time, including more time for books and audio books.
Meet our new Director of Industrial Design
Eric Mackey, Delve's new Director of Industrial Design, isn't one to design within the lines.
Transforming engineering
The list of industries experiencing huge disruption fueled by “technology” is growing by the day.
Design for Manufacturing: 7 Things Every Designer Should Know
Designers and engineers share responsibility for design for manufacturing (DFM), or designing products for optimized manufacturing ease and cost.
Building an MVP app in just eight weeks
In the spring of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic forced us to work apart, Delve’s leadership launched an internal pitch competition.
Inspiration Index 11-17-20
Since Covid, "water cooler" chats at Delve's three offices are now largely happening on Microsoft Teams, where we're sharing what we're reading and listening to with each other. We're compiling some of the best nuggets into what we're calling an "Inspiration Index," that we'll share on a regular basis. We hope you discover something that will inspire - or at least intrigue - you.