Designing Safe, Usable Medical Devices through Inclusive User Research

When designing medical devices, our industry has typically focused on two things: safety and usability. But does this go far enough to make sure the devices work for everyone who might need them? How might taking an Inclusive Design approach improve outcomes for all? Join us to hear real life case studies from the field that demonstrate how inclusive recruiting and research efforts led to novel insights about how people with different literacy levels, wrist sizes, and, surprisingly, different facial piercings informed design in interesting ways.

Clear definitions of Accessibility, Universal Design, and Inclusive Design will be shared, as well as tips for selecting broad audiences and working with diverse populations of users.

Kat Jayne is a Principal Consultant at Fathom Consulting, a human-centered design
firm based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She brings over 15 years of professional
experience to her client work, including user experience (UX) research, information
architecture, design thinking, service and application design, and strategic facilitation.
She entered the field of human-centered design by way of taxonomies, metadata, and
information design and enjoys thinking deeply about clients; challenges and helping
them solve complex problems. Kat holds a Master of Library and Information Science
from The College of St. Catherine and bachelor’s degrees in library science and French
from the University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire.

Beverages and Snacks will be provided.

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