Medical Usability: Notes from the Field
On the 8th of November we celebrated World Usability Day 2007. The theme was Healthcare so we’ve invited Suzanne Currie to write this month’s Thought Leader article. Suzanne is a good friend of ours based in Minneapolis, and for the last sixteen months she has been working as a principal Human Factors Specialist at Medtronic, designing medical products. In this article, she will share her insights on applying user-centred design to medical devices.
It’s been said that Medtronic is to medical products what Microsoft is to computers. Medtronic’s 43,000 employees design and manufacture a staggering variety of medical products that are used all over the world. I joined Medtronic for a number of reasons, but the biggest draw card was working on products that contributed directly to human well-being. These are some of my thoughts as I’ve made the transition. Read more »