Insights

Successful hardware innovators need confidence, foresight, and consideration to do something genuinely innovative.

At Delve, we don’t focus on design thinking for its own sake, but rather, on design thinking and doing. What does action-oriented design thinking look like?

As part of athenahealth’s efforts to showcase the advantages of its network-enabled healthcare IT service over stand-alone software, altr was brought in to work with the athena team to create a simple performance assessment and optimization tool.

There's no such thing as an average user.

People are now more willing to share personal health information online. What’s the responsibility of digital marketers in the health and pharmaceutical space?

We will test a part, remove material, then test it again, and iterate that process until it eventually breaks. At that point, we know just how thin, light, or inexpensive a part can be.

To build better products, development teams need to integrate the hardware and software development processes. The design thinking mindset could provide the means to enable this reunification.

Only connected devices that connect deeply with their users will have staying power. How do you strategize interaction design for IoT products customers will love?

Get to know Jenny Westby, design researcher at Delve.

How much agency should a machine be allowed? For both medical devices and cars, the potential to save lives is very real. But the consequences of things going wrong could be catastrophic.

Sometimes the simplest designs are the most difficult to get right. Here's how we approach the design of a low-information-density user interface.

In many areas of healthcare where AI has great potential, use of the technology is still in its infancy. In these realms where it’s slower to catch on, a common obstacle to adoption is lack of trust.

A few months ago, we shared our thoughts on three UX trends reshaping medical product design. Here are a few suggestions on how to incorporate those trends into your medical device UX design efforts.

Our engineers have designed a better tolerance analysis tool that makes doing tolerance stacks a joy. Download it here for free.

An innovation introduced today might be overhyped in the short term and underestimated in the long run. How will that inform your approach?

Without the right insights, a new technology is just a solution without a problem. Insights are the answer to tech for tech's sake.

We use Parametric CAD to design the majority of a wide range of new products. Here are some of the problems it helps us solve quickly and capably.

Inside every electronic device sold today – whether it’s a coffee maker, phone, automobile, or Mars Rover – is an embedded solution, or a combination of hardware and software that makes the thing run.

What do ancient farm tools have to do with contemporary gender inequality? According to the Plough Hypothesis, there’s a direct link.

As many as 95% of new products fail. To improve the odds in your favor, put users at the center of the design process and conduct user research early and often.

There are several methodologies available to speed up the development process. Which best fits your needs?

Diagnosing problems in failing products that have already been released for manufacturing can be a tricky business.

You’d be surprised how many startups come to us with excellent connected device concepts that have failed under routine, predictable environmental stresses.

We’ve developed several techniques for defuzzing the innovation process — to uncover user and technology insights that lead to innovation and reduce risk of failure.

Designers love to talk about the needs of the user. But what if the end user isn’t the person making the decision to buy your products?

Features that would be impossible to pull off using conventional manufacturing methods are made feasible with 3D printing.

When offshore manufacturing works well, it can be fast, cost-efficient, and deliver good quality. But often speed, price, or quality is sacrificed without the right vendor, relationship, and process.

A question we get often from new clients while drafting industrial design proposals is how many concepts they’ll be reviewing in the early phases of a project.

Using leading-edge parts comes with risks. You may have a great, even disruptive, product to debut, but realistically it needs to get to market before someone else beats you to it.

Several years ago, someone gifted me with Twine, an Internet-connected 2.5 square box that can be “programmed” in plain English, without needing to know how to code.