PD484: Design Vision with Modo, Inc.

The Senior Product Design students will be working on designing a medical cart for Modo - "Modo designs and builds medical carts for the most successful medical device businesses in the world."

This will be a 6 week project group project (groups of 3), and we will be presenting our final design to the client at the end of the term - June 8, 2010.

Below is an introduction to the project:

Design Vision with Modo, Inc.

This Studio focuses on working with clients: companies, end-users, and people in between.

Our product goal is to design a movable object that will carry technological equipment for the use of patients and staff within a healthcare environment. Since Apple sold more iPad tablets in one day than all other companies in the past 15 years, and tablets are the fastest growing segment of healthcare technology, we will be incorporating tablet computers into our products.

Tablets are used for charting, screening, triage, admissions and discharging among other others tasks. Carts are used as movable work spaces, homes for portable technology and personal companions. Innovation combining the two: carts and tablets, is timely and needed. Additional constraints of this project, such as important technologies to include and particularly interesting or important areas of healthcare, will be formed in discussion with Modo, Inc, the international design leader in medical carts. Constraints will be added through your research with healthcare professionals and patients, and through your design decisions as well.

Our design process goal is to use these constraints as the points of innovation that guide our development process. Constraints lead to specific product assets; youʼll show these constraints off in the form of features. The complexity of this studio is to integrate all of the points of view received with your own design ingenuity and style integrated into the final product.

Expectations: an end physical product model and presentation to Modo as inspiration for what could be part of the future of meeting peoples needs with moveable medical equipment.