In the world of highly-calibrated, fluid-based diagnostics, human-centric design can be the difference between a product that succeeds and one that fails. At every scale and in every kind of product, there are opportunities for designers to improve outcomes by thinking deeply about the human. This is true whether you’re designing large, complex machinery or…
A Guide for Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and C-Suite Executives. Let’s play out a scenario that might be familiar to you: your business has tasked you with building a product you’ve never done before. In fact, your company has never done anything like this before. You need to tell your boss or your stakeholders how…
A new eBook from Cortex, distilling 20 years of manufacturing experience into actionable advice for entrepreneurs and product champions. The hardware world is too used to seeing manufacturing as the last step of the product development process. Manufacturing comes at the end, so it should be the last thing you plan, right? You identify a…
A primer from Cortex Design. All medical devices marketed in the U.S. are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA classifies any new medical device as either Class I, Class II, or Class III, depending on the device’s risk, invasiveness, and a number of other factors. If you want to market a…
Any business leader (along with the venture capitalist who invests in them) knows that there’s no defined skill-set to success — no formula. That said, over the course of my career, I’ve noticed shared habits of successful leaders designing incredibly innovative hardware solutions. Cortex spoke with some of those leaders, both on the entrepreneurial side…
Cortex Design uses 3D printing to rapidly prototype hardware ideas in a physical form. Our in-house Objet polyjet 3D printer allows us to quickly print parts that could cost hundreds or thousands of dollars with subtractive CNC prototyping methods. It’s exciting technology, and it’s easy to understand why startups and Fortune 500 companies alike think…
Cortex Design is integrating Fusion 360 into our existing design process. In order to work with our vendors, we need Custom Drawing Templates in Fusion 360. This is not a feature that the Fusion team has implemented yet, so here’s how we made it work:
You know those little frustrations that happen over the course of the day? Many of them are actually moments of design failure — the gap between the promise a brand makes to you, and the product you actually get. Your life today was probably full of little frustrations This was today’s frustration for me: 11 a.m., and…
“It creates a discipline and an internal corporate culture that can help you grow. -Robert Kaul Medical products are entering the consumer space at a growing rate, providing safer and more effective health outcomes for the public. For prospective device manufacturers, it’s important to understand the impact that quality certifications like ISO-13485 have on the…