Designing for Human Factors: A Guide to Planning a Formative Medical Device Study
The effectiveness of medical devices largely depends on their ease of use, user interface, and other human factors considerations. Here are some steps and tips for planning a formative human factors s...
Pharmapack 2023: The Latest Drug Delivery Research, Trends & Innovation
The HD team had a great time at Pharmapack 2023 connecting with clients, suppliers and experts about the latest research and innovation in the pharmaceutical packaging & drug delivery space. Here’s ...
Reflecting on 2022 at Haughton Design
We’re grateful to say that it has been another busy and incredibly successful year at HD. So, as we approach the end of 2022, here is a brief rundown of what we have been up to this year:...
DDL 2022: The Latest Respiratory Research, Trends & Innovation
Last week, a key annual drug delivery conference returned, taking place in Edinburgh; DDL – Drug Delivery to the Lungs. The HD team had a great few days at the conference connecting with clients, su...
Haughton Design Turns 20!
Celebrating 20 years of HD provides perfect opportunity to look back through the archives and reflect on the company's history and success over the years:...
Design, Development & Engineering | BT Pelipod Smart Locker Range
Pelipod, a BT company, approached Haughton Design to redesign their first-generation locker system. The lockers offer a final mile network solution for the delivery of spare parts. This allows for com...
Industrial Design | Yale Smart Living Lock
HD were approached by Assa Abloy - Yale, to provide an industrial design service focused on establishing an aesthetic for a new smart living door lock ahead of prototype production:...
How to Plan the Design & Development of your Medical Device | Part 2
In the second of this two-part blog, Senior Design Engineer, John and Human Centred Designer, Amber continue to address some frequent questions regarding writing a design & development plan as well as...
How to Plan the Design & Development of your Medical Device | Part 1
Correct planning should be carried out to control the design & development of your medical device however, many companies fall short when it comes to their documentation and overall approach to planni...
What Makes HD Unique in Medical Device Design & Development?
What makes HD unique to other design agencies? It’s a question we regularly hear when marketing to Medical Device and Pharmaceutical prospects. We sat down with our team of design development engine...
6 Advantages of Developing Training Devices for Injectable Healthcare Markets
Typically, it is not possible to train people using active drug delivery devices as this requires subcutaneous or intra-muscular injection and administration of pharmaceutical drugs. To address common...
The Human Factor
Senior Design Engineer John Harverson and Human Centred Designer Amber Davies discuss how human factors engineering (HFE) informs their work developing new medical devices at Haughton Design. ...
Reflecting on 2021 at Haughton Design
Entering 2021, we were full of optimism. Despite it having been somewhat just as rocky as 2019/2020, we are proud of our achievements this year. Here is our reflection on 2021 at Haughton Design:...
Living with Diabetes: A Patient’s Perspective on Medical Devices for Diabetes Management
In light of Diabetes Week, we spoke to Chris Harrison, who has been living with Type One Diabetes for over 40 years to learn about the role that medical devices play in his Diabetes Care:...
Benefits of a structured New Product & Medical Device Development Process
Clients typically need to know what work needs to be done, clearly understand the investment required and when to expect delivery – our Development WorkFlow is perfect for that!...
Design & Development | Urinary Drainage Device
HD provided the design & development of an innovative urinary drainage device with a number of novel features drawn from user needs....