Cara Evangelista

A Day in the Life of a Pumping Mother Who Has Returned to Work

Block Energy: Trial by Hurricane

Bridging the Digital-Physical Divide in Medical Device Development

Insights from Delve's MD&M Minneapolis panel highlight the challenges and benefits of an merging hardware and software design.

Using User Research to Validate Prototypes

Delve's work with the innovative startup MilkMate illustrates the critical importance of user research for businesses, and how to conduct it effectively.

BlockEnergy: Residential Mini-Grid

When Hurricane Ian tore through Florida in 2022, it left 2.7 million Floridians without power. Meanwhile, the lights stayed on at BlockEnergy’s 37-home pilot subdivision.

Delve Developments

Product innovation insights, inspiration, and what's new at Delve.

A Complete Lactation Room Solution for Pumping Moms at Work

For nursing mothers, an assigned space in the workplace for pumping is only part of the answer. MilkMate developed a comprehensive lactation room solution.

How to Design a Consumer Wellness App That Clicks

53% of health apps are uninstalled within 30 days of download. How to design a consumer wellness app that truly engages users.

A Chronically Underutilized Role in Medtech

Utilize this role to its fullest to cut project risk and development time.

Designing Home Healthcare: Best Practices and Real-World Examples

As the home evolves into a central hub of healthcare, how can we design for it in a way that delivers safe and effective healthcare for all?

How to Outsource the Engineering Team You Need

Engineer shortage? Outsourcing your engineering needs can be the answer—if you do it right.

Is UX the difference between life and death?

In some industries, a poor user experience isn't just suboptimal. It's dangerous.

Use Digital Design to Transform Data into Insights

Got data? Now make it understandable and useful to prospective customers.

Use Digital-Physical Workflows to Master Integrated Product Design

Digital-physical workflows help you visualize what needs to happen in both the digital and physical spheres, and where they must connect.

A Consumer Approach to Medical Devices

Today’s users of medical devices expect a consumer-level experience. How can medtech firms make the shift?

Slash Project Risk: Embed Research Throughout Product Development

Explore what research-driven new product development looks like.

Four Steps to the "Right" Color in Product Design

Color is a matter of personal preference, so how can designers confidently choose the “right” colors for products?

How to Develop a Product with an LED and Touch User Interface

Sometimes, the simplest designs are the most difficult to get right.

How to Make Better Design Decisions: Get the Worksheet

Make better design decisions and advocate for them effectively.

Grab Our 10-Stage Medical Device Development Diagram

Use the diagram on your next project to mitigate risk and produce a more successful product.

Big Wins at the IDEA Awards

Product innovation insights, inspiration, and what’s new at Delve.

If You Could Redesign Anything, What Would It Be?

Not every product design is a home run. Here are 15 products that could use some design help.

Why Multidisciplinary Teams Design Better Products

Designing Home Healthcare: Ten Best Practices and Real-World Examples

Design Lessons from 4 Early Wearables That Didn't Quite Hit the Mark

These early attempts at wearable technology were innovative but flawed—and paved the way for the more advanced devices we have today.

A Chronically Underutilized Role in Medical Device Development

How to Use Patient Journey Mapping to Design an Outstanding Patient Experience

Want to deliver a better patient experience? Start by mapping the patient journey. Here's how to do it.

19 Uses for AI in Product Development

Meet a Delvian: Corin Frost

We design our process as carefully as we design the product—using powerful visual storytelling to intentionally guide our clients to make the best decisions possible

Biggest Innovations in 2022 That Influenced Product Design

A coffee pod system without a plastic pod. Headphones that read your mind. A touch-sensitive prosthetic hand. Check out the biggest innovations to influence product design in 2022.

Reduce Project Risk: Incorporate Research Throughout New Product Development

What does research-driven product development look like?

A Guide to Action-Oriented Design Thinking

The ROI of Research and Strategy, Part 2

To understand the critical importance of research and strategy for businesses, it can be helpful to look at real-world examples.

Stop Trying to Innovate. Try This Instead.

What It Looks Like When Organizations Enable Innovation—By Design

What the Medical Device Industry Can Learn from Consumer Product...

Today's users of medical devices expect a consumer-level experience. How can medtech firms make the shift?

What Can Data Science and Machine Learning Do for You?

Here are nine examples across different sectors of how data science and machine learning can help unlock the power of your data.

Meet a Delvian: Jenny Westby

The value of research can seem vague and intangible—until you see the insights applied to developing great products or experiences.

A History of AI in Engineering from the 1970s to Today

With the transformative potential of new AI tools like ChatGPT on everyone's mind, it's easy to forget that artificial intelligence has been used in product design and engineering for many years.

Developing a Product with an LED and Touch User Interface

Sometimes the simplest designs are the most difficult to get right. Here's how we approach the design of a low-information-density user interface.

Touchscreens Become Tactile

Touchscreens are now tactile. This may have big implications for medical devices and vehicle infotainment systems, where safety and error-reduction are paramount.

Speeding Up Product Development: 4 Essential Approaches

There are several methodologies available to speed up the development process. Which best fits your needs?

A Better Way to Develop A Medical Device with Digital and Physical...

We've been experimenting with a new methodology for designing medical devices with hardware/software interactions. Here's what a new, holistic development process might look like.

Will AI and ChatGPT really transform clinical healthcare for the...

I am excited about where AI will take us in healthcare, but there are some challenges we will need to negotiate and serious dangers we must guard against.

How the Consumerization of Healthcare is Transforming Medtech

5 Groundbreaking Health Innovations Powered by Data and Machine...

Advances in data science and machine learning are transforming healthcare and public safety. Countless lives will benefit. Here are five inspiring examples.

What Taylor Swift Can Teach Product Designers About Experiential Brand Language

Responsible AI: Guidelines and Resources for Designers

Microsoft just dissolved their AI Ethics and Society team. What's a designer to do?

When to Use Soft Goods in Product Design

To develop the best version of your product, have you considered leveraging softer materials?

A Better Way to Develop a Medical Device with Digital and Physical...

Next-generation medical devices with hardware/software interactions need a new, holistic development methodology.

Four Agents of Change You Need on Your Innovation Team

Together, we can design a better world. Let's start by leveraging our unique skillsets as change agents.

How to Use Low- and Mid-Fidelity Prototyping for Soft Goods

I t's important to prototype and test soft materials at various stages in the product development process.

At-Home COVID tests are convenient, but are they sustainable?

Our team performs teardowns of these tests to determine their potential environmental impact.

The ROI of Research and Strategy, Part 1

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe," Abraham Lincoln is supposed to have said. At Delve, research is like sharpening the axe.

How to Design a Medical Device as Safe as an MRI and as Intuitive as...

Medical device manufacturers need to design for a new kind of user. This has big implications not just for the devices they design but also for how they do business.

Three Principles for More Human, Solution-Focused, Fair, and...

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How Will AI Impact Medical Devices?

Fresh from our webinar, AI & Medical Device Development, we'd like to share a few takeaways from the discussion.

3 Surprising Findings from Our Latest MedTech Industry Survey

While reviewing the early data from our ongoing research on trends in the medical device industry, three unexpected findings caught our eye.

What's keeping businesses from adopting a sustainability mindset?

Eric Mackey and Taylor Cone talk about the roadblocks that prevent organizations from embracing sustainability-and what it would take to effect change.

Download Delve's Tolerance Stack-Up Analysis Calculator

Our engineers have designed a better tolerance analysis tool that makes doing tolerance stacks a joy. Download it here for free.

Designing Home Healthcare: Ten Best Practices and Real-World Examples

A Chronically Underutilized Role in Medtech

Cut project risk by integrating human factors into your design team.

A Consumer Products Approach to Medical Devices

Reduce Project Risk: Incorporate Research Throughout New Product Development

A Better Way to Develop a Medical Device with Digital and Physical Elements

A Chronically Underutilized Role in Medical Device Development

Why can't an ICU be more like a cockpit?

From a design perspective, many ICUs are a dangerous mess.

A Breakthrough Moment

Don't design for men or women.

Products designed for everyone will benefit all users and, in turn, the company that makes them.

Want to improve patient experience? Start by mapping it.

We're giving away the Patient Journey Mapping Template we use at Delve.

Design thinking has been getting some rough press lately

McKinsey’s new report emphasizes what I’ve been saying for some time.

9 Uses for AI in Product Development

We're giving away Delve's Tolerance Analysis Calculator

Meet a Delvian: Corin Frost

MUSE Silver Award Winner: EO Care

To help build patient trust in a pioneering treatment, we designed a clear, open experience for EO Care that focuses on helping users understand what’s being recommended to them and why.

Designers Are Not Artists. That's a good thing.

Having an impact on important issues through design is easier once we embrace the fact that we’re not artists.

How we use VR for faster prototyping

We once prototyped a room-sized instrumentation system. The only thing bigger than the prototype was the truck we used to haul it to the client site.

Designing Home Healthcare: Best Practices and Real-World Examples

Designing healthcare for the home is a different animal-one the FDA said this year it will try to tame.

Want to speed up product development? First, go slow.

We always take a broad view before diving into the details. A full grounding in the big picture empowers us to produce better solutions, faster.

MUSE Silver Award Winner: Sea Machines

Gone are the days when sea captains had to continually scan the horizon for looming icebergs.

Meet a Delvian

Whenever we ask one of our clients why they chose Delve, there's one answer we hear often: "The people."

Designing Home Healthcare

Heads up, medtech: You are no longer designing for trained healthcare professionals, but for lay users.

Reducing Medical Device Risk with Usability Testing and uFMEAs

Every year, approximately 400,000 hospitalized patients experience some kind of preventable harm.

To enable innovation, tear down the obstacles that stand in its way. Here's what that looks like.

How to Design for Sterilization of Medical Devices

Sterilization is essential for medical devices, but it can also damage poorly designed electronics.

No Shortage of Good Ideas

Design Thinking Done Right

When design thinking is action-oriented—as it is when we practice it here at Delve—it is a powerful framework for fostering innovation and advancing business goals.

How will AI transform healthcare?

Design That Clicks: The Art and Science of Tactile Feedback

A firm, audible click is one of the best signals we have to tell the user of a product that an action has been completed. In the OR, it can have a huge safety benefit.

AI will transform product innovation. The only question is how.

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A DEI Initiative With Real Business Impact

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Gamification Makes MRIs Fun (yes, fun) for Child Patients

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Patagonia Reimagines Capitalism

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What if Prosthetics Felt and Behaved Almost Like the Real Thing?

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How We Do It: Virtual Reality for Better, Faster Prototyping

Why you should Integrate VR prototyping into your workflow.

Headphones That Read Your Mind

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Renewable Energy Solutions for the Home Are Maturing

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Imagine a Company Without Managers

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New Life for Leftover Paint

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A Coffee Pod System Without the Plastic Pod

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The Case for Product Usability Testing in Simulated Environments

Why do we regularly transform our usability lab into a kitchen, hospital room, garage, bathroom, living room? Hint: It's not because we're filming a movie.

A Long-Awaited Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion

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Designing a better world is the ultimate collaborative project

Over the years, Delve has been honored to partner with innovators and entrepreneurs who share our vision of designing a better world, together.

The key to designing a complex device

We’ve noticed a common thread running through all our work: We make the complex simple. Such simplicity is only made possible by a foundation built with complex engineering.

Sustainable design: Baby steps are not enough

LinkedIn post about sustainable design

What if every designer were a climate designer?

Big systems are at play in the climate crisis, but as individuals, we have more power than we realize.

Still Trying to Design Next-Gen Medical Devices with Old-Gen Methodologies?

Stop trying to design next-generation medical devices with old-gen methodologies. We’re starting to see a lot of process failures out there.

Six Design Lessons from Our Six MUSE Award Winners

7 Ways Integrated Human Factors Can Reduce Risk for Your Next Medtech Project

How to Design Healthcare for the Home

How to Design Wearables That Stick

The Internet of Things presents an amazing opportunity to make many things better. But does everything really need to be "smart"? ⚙️ A smart toaster that...

A Guide to Action-Oriented Design Thinking

What is a patient journey map, and why do you need one?

Five Conditions That Foster Creativity

10 Questions to Your Best Manufacturing Solution

"Do you know a place to get this made?" This is a question we hear often from entrepreneurs looking for a manufacturing solution. Arriving at the right...

Five Innovation Methods to Try with Your Team

Even the best designers must work at being innovative, week after week.

How Design Researchers Can Help Decolonize Design

4 Ways Empathic Design Leads to Better Products

Neuroscience shows that listening empathetically makes you a better designer.

How to optimize design for manufacturing

When designing a new product, it's important to think about **how** the product will be manufactured. Design for manufacturing (DFM) prevents quality issues...

Don't Launch Late! Four Ways to Reduce Risk in Connected Device Development

4 steps to the right color in product design

Consumers make up their minds about a product within 90 seconds of their initial interaction. Most cite color as a main deciding factor. But color is a matter...

8 Questions to Smarter Parts Selection in Electronic Product Design

7 Interaction Design Principles for IoT Products That Connect

Interaction designers have spent decades figuring out the best way to build an interface from scratch. A lot of what we know translates well to smart products....

How to create IoT products that connect

Every interaction you design for an IoT product is an opportunity to improve functionality, increase delight, and reinforce brand loyalty.

How to Design for Misuse

Users are often unpredictable, using products in ways they weren't designed to be used. Design for misuse is a way to counteract this and prevent unintended...

9 Considerations for Planning User Research Prototypes

Prototyping is critical to product development success. But it's not an exact science. Knowing *what* to test and *when* can be a big challenge. The truth is,...

Qualitative vs Quantitative Research: Which Is Right for Your Project?

3 UX Trends Reshaping Medical Device Design

How to Design Successful Wearables

3 UX Best Practices for Medical Product Designers

How to Use Soft Goods in Product Design

To develop the best version of your product, have you considered leveraging softer materials? As design materials, soft goods are versatile, functional...

The Not Impossible Vest

What happens when we put diversity, equity, and inclusion at the heart of design?

Penumbra Real Immersive System

HDM-Breas: IoT Ventilator Platform

In healthcare, poor digital design can put lives at risk.

Case Study: Phlex Swimmer's Wearable

Bruvelo Smart Coffeemaker

How do you make a complex device (feel) simple? Reduce the number of steps the user must take to operate it. Build all the complexity and sophistication...

HDM-Breas IoT System for CPAP Users

BlockEnergy Renewable Energy Platform

Ditto: A New Search for Visual Web

Is your brand missing out on 80% of its online visual presence? Only 20% of images featuring your brand's products or logos are tagged. That means your brand...

Homethrive Virtual Care Service

How do you help families recognize when they need support caring for aging loved ones?

Jitterbug: Cloud Studio

Should you hire industry outsiders to design your new product? Maybe.

EO Care: Digital Health Platform for Cannabis Care

When pioneering a new type of care— especially with a substance that is only recently legalized—it was essential fot the entire experience to build trust and confidence.

DELAID: Revolutionizing Commuting with Predictive Precision

We turned a chaotic winter in Boston into the inspiration for DELAID-an app that predicts your commute.

ProNova S360

Imagine being strapped into a large machine, completely immobilized for an hour while it delivers high doses of radiation to treat your cancer.

AT&T: Making B2B Marketing Fun

To help generate interest for AT&T, we took inspiration from the consumer market.

Are you ready to lead in the future of your industry?

5 Global Megatrends Shaping Product Design

How to Achieve Disruptive Innovation via Backcasting

What will healthcare look like in 2065?

How to Combat Design Tunnel Vision

Six Prototypes Every Startup Needs to Make

Lazurite: ArthroFree Wireless Camera

An operating room nurse tripped over cables and fell, shattering her wrist. It was a lightbulb moment: What if the hazardous wires could be removed altogether?

GAF Decotech: Solar That Sits Pretty

Biomeme: Franklin Real-Time Portable PCR Thermocycler

Biomeme's ultraportable Franklin Thermocycler performs to the standard of most advanced labs-so users can now take their lab with them, anywhere.

Oncology Experience Redesign

Lancome HAPTA and Stryker Xpedition Receive International Design...

Delve is a product innovation firm that brings bold ideas to markets through its deep expertise in strategy, design, and engineering.

Erewhon Market App Receives 2024 Silver MUSE Design Award

Delve is a product innovation firm that brings bold ideas to markets through its deep expertise in strategy, design, and engineering.

Co-Designing the Future of Healthcare: JeffSolves MedTech Pitch Night

Delve's Philadelphia studio hosted an inspiring evening as part of the annual Design Philadelphia festival: the JeffSolves MedTech Pitch Night.

Delve Unveils MilkMate Lactation Room to Support Nursing Mothers

Delve is a product innovation firm that brings bold ideas to markets through its deep expertise in strategy, design, and engineering.

Delve to Host JeffSolves Medtech Pitch Night at Philadelphia Studio

Delve is a product innovation firm that brings bold ideas to markets through its deep expertise in strategy, design, and engineering.

Taylor Cone and Amy Lee to Speak at Control the Room 2023

Delve is a product innovation firm that brings bold ideas to markets through its deep expertise in strategy, design, and engineering.

Data Science and Machine Learning (Service Landing Page)

Better design. Better decisions. Driven by data. More than ever before, today's products can be sources of invaluable data. Make the most of a digitally driven future with the power of Delve's Data Science and Machine Learning Team.

The financial services industry is failing women

There is no right or wrong way to manage your money

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Financial education alone is not enough. We need to do better.

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How to get financial wellness into your workplace

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How to design a successful financial wellness program

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Do wellness benefits drive retention? Indirectly, yes.

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It's time. Let's make financial solutions accessible to all.

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A financial service real people want to use

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How we will unlock financial wellbeing with AI

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Unlocking your financial path: How it works

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Why combining online + human financial advice is better

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COVID-19: Why your credit score matters more than ever

Five healthy habits for a resilient and secure financial future

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You need more than one credit card (and other puzzling but important credit secrets)

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More than a credit card. A credit-building partner.

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Renting or buying? The importance of good credit when entering the real estate market

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Corona crisis: How to stay financially healthy in difficult times

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Brand storytelling and credibility-building for a financial startup

Earned media campaign for a fintech startup

5 important conversations to have before you retire

You're carrying student debt. Will you still be able to buy a home?

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Divorce after 50

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Boost brand affinity and intent to purchase

Divorce after 50

Jobs for Women Over 50

Adult Children and Your Money

What to Eat at Midlife

Cara Evangelista Content: What I do for brands

Case Study: Content strategy to launch a fintech startup

Content Strategy for the TripAnalyst Customer Journey

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Cara Reynolds: Writing sample (pdf)

Brand storytelling and credibility building for a fintech startup

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Writing Sample: Press Release

Press release announcing a fintech startup's re-brand and re-positioning

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Content Strategy Review and Recommendations for an Expense Management Platform

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