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Touchscreens are now tactile. This may have big implications for medical devices and vehicle infotainment systems, where safety and error-reduction are paramount.

To develop the best version of your product, have you considered leveraging softer materials?

The theme of the DMI Madrid 2023 conference was "The Power of Design in Turbulent Times." Here are some reflections on major themes that defined the talks and the conversations throughout.

With the transformative potential of new AI tools like ChatGPT on everyone’s mind, it’s easy to forget that artificial intelligence has been used in product design and engineering for many years.

The “fuzzy front end” of product development can pose some unique challenges for engineers.

A multidisciplinary team has the edge in creating innovative, well-rounded solutions that meet the needs of all stakeholders.

The Delve team explores AI’s place in our product development process.

To understand the critical importance of user research and strategy for businesses, it's helpful to look at real-world examples.

Business leaders need to make product decisions based on real data about their target market, instead of simply relying on best guesses or gut feel.

Authentication is not appropriate for every product, but there are many applications where it's necessary for the manufacturer, end user, or both. Authenticating your consumables need not break the bank.

Microsoft just dissolved their AI Ethics and Society team. What’s a designer to do?

Only about 19% of professional industrial designers in the United States are women.

I am excited about where AI will take us in healthcare, but there are some challenges we will need to negotiate and serious dangers we must guard against.

How do you design better products for women? Our female researchers, designers and engineers compiled seven principles for individuals and companies to consider.

Is your innovation incremental, strategic, or visionary? Use Delve's Future-Readiness Checklist to gauge your approach.

As healthcare moves toward everyday wellness, new health and wellness solutions will consist of offerings you wouldn’t expect from the current ecosystem. Designing solutions that provide a seamless integration of products and services will entice healthcare consumers.

Consumer-centric care will continue to be delivered faster, in unexpected places, and at previously untenable times of day and night. Companies that can redefine convenience will gain a competitive edge.

Advancements in AI and data analytics technologies, and the healthcare consumer’s increasing interest in tracking and sharing personal data, are paving the way for highly personalized care. To win this race, companies need to deliver deeper, more meaningful personalization.

Companies that provide more meaningful connection at an emotional and aspirational level will attract the next generation of healthcare consumers.

Future healthcare products need to be designed to embody a proactive and preventive mindset. This new paradigm is focused on enhancing our well-being and health in all areas of our life, all of the time.

Leadership diversity matters because having different perspectives and experiences drives innovation and helps companies to design better products. This is even more important when it comes to medical devices, where patients’ health and lives are at stake.

Medical device manufacturers need to design for a new kind of user. This has big implications not just for the devices they design but also for how they do business.

Eric Mackey, Delve’s former Director of Industrial Design, and Taylor Cone, Delve’s Head of Innovation Enablement, talk about the roadblocks that prevent organizations from embracing sustainability—and what it would take to effect change.

While reviewing the early data from our ongoing research on trends in the medical device industry, three unexpected findings caught our eye.

Patients are becoming empowered consumers of healthcare. They 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.