Applying product design methods to medical device design with a case study on home care devices

Abstract

Medical device design is one of the most important and most promising fields of industrial design. Medical devices, which were once designed by doctors, technicians and other people, who usually use such devices, have become insufficient in meeting the needs of today.s. In this respect, design of such devices and methods, which are used in the design process, comes away as main topics, which have to be carefully undertaken.Product design methods have the capacity of solving the problems of medical device design field, as they have in many other fields. In this study, the ways of applying these methods into the medical device design process, especially in home care medical device design, are going to be examined.