The MyoPro 2x incorporated many ergonomic and usability improvements to the MyoPro 2 platform. After the launch of the 2+, the design team was tasked with implementing additional hardware, software, and training changes to reduce donning time, cognitive burden, and improve user satisfaction.
Key performance is indicated by an increase in wear time due to an improved ratio of function to use vs. burden to wear.
On this project, I:
-Worked closely with product management and clinical leads to identify the key usability issues with the on-market product through a combination of post-market surveillance, focus group studies, and brainstorming.
-Led the mechanical team to prioritize and integrate design changes within the constraints of retrofittable modular improvements that maintained backwards compatibility.
-Worked with product management and design resources to develop a new visual donning guide that communicated the order of operations using a visual workflow that could be referenced while the user is donning the device.
-Managed an external EE resource to redesign the product mainboard to improve torque output, increase compute resources, and integrated new cryptoauth TPM and communications modules capable of supporting secure BLE and wifi communications, enabling the future launch of a companion phone app.
