Clients often ask, "What are you working on right now?" To give you a sense of the breadth and depth of our work in the medical products space, we have provided a partial list below of projects we have tackled in the past year. We’ll update this list periodically as new projects launch.

Hospital & Surgical Tools


• Endosurgical stapling system
• Interface for a CT system
• Physical product for stopping the spread of infection in a clinical environment
• Steerable catheter for cardiac procedure
• Visually-guided bronchoscopy tools
• Programmer for implantable device
• Patient temperature monitoring device
• IV packaging and system
• Organ Transplant System
• Next-gen system and products for GI procedures
• System and control handle design for interventional cardiology
• Ablation tools for tumor removal
• Cardiovascular catheter tools
• Nuclear imaging device

Consumer Health Products


• Device for addressing female incontinence
• Disposable product for fluid containment
• Metered dose injection pen
• Disinfection system for ophthalmic product
• Skin prep and shaving system
• Next-generation women’s health product
• Closed-loop device system for chronic disease management
• Applicator for wearable monitoring device
• A new consumer diagnostic test designed as a demonstration to clear FDA pre-IDE meeting
• Injection device designed to mitigate pain response
• Packaging to address adherence issues around an oral therapy
• Device for therapy delivery for hemophilia
• Injector for dexterity-impaired patients
• Starter kit for injection device
• Custom-fit wearable device for specific disability
• Device for inhalable therapy for children
• Ambulatory system for disabled individuals

IDEO designers are experts in a large range of disciplines. Each core project team is uniquely curated to best fit specific project needs. For our medical products work, core project team designers typically have expertise in the following disciplines:

• Business Design
• Human Factors
• Industrial Design
• Interaction Design
• Graphic & Communication Design
• Mechanical Engineering
• Product Design

Throughout a project, a small army of additional IDEOers with backgrounds in Medicine, Manufacturing, Brand, Software, and High Resolution Prototyping may assist with the project in a variety of ways.