Medical Device Design Firm

Human-centered medical device design with the rigor to move confidently toward validation.

Priority Designs helps healthcare teams design medical products that work for patients, clinicians, caregivers, and the systems around them. As an ISO 13485 certified medical device design company, we combine user research, industrial design, UX/UI, engineering, and prototyping to help teams move from early ideas to safer, clearer, more usable medical products.

ISO 13485 certified medical device development support.
35+ years of product development experience.
Experience with Class I, Class II, and Class III device programs.
70+ specialists across research, design, engineering, UX/UI, prototyping, sound, and soft goods.
All Under One Roof

A Breadth of Specialties

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Industrial Design

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Soft Goods Design

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UX/UI Design

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Sound Design

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Strategy & Brand

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Research

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Mechanical Engineering

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Software & Electrical Engineering

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Prototyping

We’d Make a Great Team

Why We're Different

Designing for the People Who Use, Deliver, and Depend On Care

Medical device design has to account for more than aesthetics. It has to account for the environment, workflow, stress, training, handoffs, and the consequences of confusion. PD designs with patients, clinicians, caregivers, technicians, and product teams in mind, so usability and technical feasibility develop together.

Medical Device Design & Engineering Under One Roof

Our designers and engineers work side by side from early concepts through prototyping and manufacturing preparation. That collaboration helps protect design intent while resolving the technical details that make a device usable, manufacturable, and ready for the next stage of development.

Built for Healthcare Realities

PD can run programs under our ISO 13485 quality system or work within yours. We understand that medical product design has to balance user needs, risk, documentation, usability, regulatory expectations, production constraints, and business goals without losing sight of the humans at the center of care.

Who PD Helps

  • Medical device companies developing new physical or digital products
  • R&D and innovation teams improving an existing device or workflow
  • Healthcare startups refining a proof of concept into a production-ready direction
  • Human factors and usability teams needing design and prototyping support
  • Product teams preparing for verification, validation, or manufacturing handoff
We’d Make a Great Team

Why We're Different

Designing for the People Who Use, Deliver, and Depend On Care

Medical device design has to account for more than aesthetics. It has to account for the environment, workflow, stress, training, handoffs, and the consequences of confusion. PD designs with patients, clinicians, caregivers, technicians, and product teams in mind, so usability and technical feasibility develop together.

Medical Device Design & Engineering Under One Roof

Our designers and engineers work side by side from early concepts through prototyping and manufacturing preparation. That collaboration helps protect design intent while resolving the technical details that make a device usable, manufacturable, and ready for the next stage of development.

Built for Healthcare Realities

PD can run programs under our ISO 13485 quality system or work within yours. We understand that medical product design has to balance user needs, risk, documentation, usability, regulatory expectations, production constraints, and business goals without losing sight of the humans at the center of care.

Who PD Helps

  • Medical device companies developing new physical or digital products
  • R&D and innovation teams improving an existing device or workflow
  • Healthcare startups refining a proof of concept into a production-ready direction
  • Human factors and usability teams needing design and prototyping support
  • Product teams preparing for verification, validation, or manufacturing handoff
Selected Work & Clients

Case Studies

Surigcure HORSESHOE

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Member Services Platform Redesign

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Smith+Nephew Sonic Experience

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Research-Use Hematology Analyzer

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Selected Work & Clients

Case Studies

Surgicure HORSESHOE

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Member Services Platform Redesign

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Smith+Nephew Sonic Experience

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Research-Use Hematology Analyzer

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Medical Device Design Firms

A Deeper Dive

What does a medical device design firm do?

A medical device design firm helps create products that are safe, intuitive, effective, and practical to produce. The work can include user research, human factors strategy, industrial design, ergonomic exploration, interface design, engineering development, risk-informed prototyping, usability evaluation, and production documentation. For a healthcare product to succeed, those activities cannot live in isolation.

Why medical device design needs integrated teams:

Healthcare products are used in complex environments where time, stress, sterility, training, and patient safety all matter. A design that looks simple may carry difficult technical and workflow requirements. A technically sound mechanism may fail if a clinician cannot understand it quickly. PD brings researchers, designers, engineers, prototypers, UX/UI specialists, and healthcare-minded strategists together so these considerations are addressed earlier and more clearly.

Medical product design with regulatory awareness:

PD is ISO 13485 certified, which means our team understands the discipline required for medical device development. We help clients create products with quality, documentation, usability, and risk in mind. Depending on the engagement, we can operate within PD’s quality system or work effectively within a client’s established system. The goal is to keep creative development moving while supporting the design and validation process.

Who PD helps in medical device design:

Priority Designs helps established healthcare companies, medical device startups, hospital innovation teams, and product groups that need practical design and engineering support. We are a fit when the work involves real users, real clinical environments, physical or digital product interactions, and the need to turn a promising idea into something that can be tested, refined, documented, and advanced with confidence.

About PD

Frequently Asked Questions

What makes Priority Designs a medical device design firm?

PD combines healthcare-focused research, industrial design, UX/UI, engineering, prototyping, and quality-system awareness to support medical device and medical product design programs.

Is Priority Designs ISO 13485 certified?

Yes. Priority Designs is ISO 13485 certified and can run programs under its quality system or work within a client’s quality system.

Does PD support medical device design engineering?

Yes. PD’s engineering team works directly with our industrial designers, researchers, UX/UI designers, and prototyping specialists to develop medical products with usability, manufacturability, and design intent in mind.

Can PD work on both physical devices and medical interfaces?

Yes. PD supports physical medical devices, medical UI, connected products, healthcare software, sonic experiences, instructions for use, and related product ecosystems.

What types of medical product design work can PD support?

PD can support early research, concept development, industrial design, human factors-informed design, engineering, prototyping, usability testing, design refinement, documentation, and manufacturing handoff.