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A Critical Analysis of FDA Guidance for User Percentile Device Design Criteria Versus Currently Available Human Factors Engineering Data Sources and Industry Best Practices

  A staggering report was recently released by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) indicating that 83,000 deaths and 1.7 million injuries were linked to medical device adverse events reported over the last decade. Furthermore, a 2013 report by McKinsey & Company suggested that such adverse events and associated quality issues cost the medical … Continue reading A Critical Analysis of FDA Guidance for User Percentile Device Design Criteria Versus Currently Available Human Factors Engineering Data Sources and Industry Best Practices

Understanding Costs And Risks For Human Factors Engineering (HFE) Usability Studies – Part 2: Outsourcing HFE Usability Testing

  Many of you may have read Part 1 in our series on Understanding Costs And Risks For HFE Usability Studies, which discussed the factors that device development teams should consider when executing HFE studies internally. We recently published the second article in this series, which discusses how to optimize data quality while controlling for … Continue reading Understanding Costs And Risks For Human Factors Engineering (HFE) Usability Studies – Part 2: Outsourcing HFE Usability Testing

Understanding Costs And Risks For HFE Usability Studies — Part 1: Testing In-House

  Executing HFE studies internally is often far more complex and time-consuming than drug delivery device development teams realize. MUS recently published part one of a two-part article detailing the factors that need to be considered by device development teams in order to produce high-quality usability testing data appropriate for decision-making and HFE optimization while … Continue reading Understanding Costs And Risks For HFE Usability Studies — Part 1: Testing In-House

How 4 Simple Usability Heuristics Could Have Saved SNAP Glasses

Wall Street And Hardware SNAP is the quintessential example of spinning gold from code. This is not to take away from SNAP’s apparent success as a virtual social media platform and possible business performance. Although the quarterly reports are, in real cash flow terms, terrifyingly low for such a staggering market cap, and marketers are not flocking to … Continue reading How 4 Simple Usability Heuristics Could Have Saved SNAP Glasses

Why SNAP Spectacles Failed: A Detailed Professional Usability Heuristics Analysis

Spinning gold from code This is an object lesson in why hardware design is exceedingly difficult for software businesses. It is always an interesting exercise to watch a software-based and cloud-delivered business, even a very clever one with a massive user base and a seemingly successful business model, attempt hardware design. There is a certain arrogance … Continue reading Why SNAP Spectacles Failed: A Detailed Professional Usability Heuristics Analysis

User Interface Design and UX Design: 80+ Important Research Papers Covering Peer-Reviewed and Informal Studies

Important peer-reviewed and informally published recent research on user interface design and user experience (UX) design. For the benefit of clients and colleagues we have culled a list of approximately 70 curated recent research publications dealing with user interface design, UX design and e-commerce optimization. In our opinion these publications represent some of the best … Continue reading User Interface Design and UX Design: 80+ Important Research Papers Covering Peer-Reviewed and Informal Studies

Why Cisco flipped over the Flip Video Cam (and paid $590 million for a small dose of simplicity)

What is simplicity worth; to Cisco Systems apparently quite a lot.  One can visualize the PowerPoint deck from Cisco’s investment banking group showing how acquisition of Pure Digital Media (maker of the Flip Video Camera) would: A) be a potentially decent financial investment and B) would imbue Cisco, a company whose products are arguably among … Continue reading Why Cisco flipped over the Flip Video Cam (and paid $590 million for a small dose of simplicity)