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Balancing Critical Constraints for Comfortable, Intuitive Wearable Devices
People range a wide spectrum of sizes, heights and abilities, and wearables must be designed to comfortably deliver the desired function of the device while users are static, or in motion. No small feat. This requires careful attention to fit, sizing, ease-of-use, compliance, and a host of additional critical constraints, but many of these criteria are often conflicting. Navigating these tricky waters requires problem solving, testing, and the collaboration of varied team members.
Priority Designs has built experience in the category over 25 years, integrating soft and hard components with physical + digital interaction. As demand increases for products that sense and share data, and nudge positive behavior of wearers, our electrical + software team members are a valuable part of development that involves connectivity, often in compact, discrete applications.
We’ve developed relationships with trusted manufacturing vendors and material suppliers. We’ve learned how to comply to regulatory requirements, and how to select materials that balance durability, biocompatibility, and cost-effectiveness across a variety of market categories. With each wearable product, our diverse team of specialists pulls in the right people for each task, delivering holistic, thoughtful and elevated user experiences.
An Interdisciplinary Approach Helps Our
Partners Launch Successful Wearables
Meet the Team
The combination of our people’s unique skillsets is what creates holistic, thoughtful solutions. Meet some (but not all!) of our talented staff that collaborates on wearable tech product development.

Hannes Hertrich
SR. MECHANICAL ENGINEER
Hannes helps connect the worlds of soft goods, mechanical engineering, and electronics in a holistic, cohesive way. Quick to jump in to develop, refine and execute ideas, he bridges disciplines by implementing plastics/ metals/composites testing and quality standards with natural/synthetic fiber and yarn development.

Jeff Burger
SR. INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER
Jeff has over 15 years of experience enhancing user experience, comfort and interaction through the design of wearable technology projects in home healthcare, enterprise, and soft robotics. He is passionate about the future of wearables, combining vision for a product’s potential with empathy for the user’s needs and experience.

Katie Mowery
SR. HUMAN FACTORS SPECIALIST
Katie partners with our design, engineering and soft goods teams to conduct research studies of wearable devices with a range of product users. Helping recruit, plan, moderate, and report findings, Katie helps provide valuable feedback on a product’s usability.

Billy Rupe
PROTOTYPE SPECIALIST
Working alongside soft goods developers, Billy helps our team fabricate parts, create new materials, and solve challenging problems while developing the construction of a wearable project. He helps deliver high quality prototypes for our clients that are as close (or better!) than production outcomes.

Tony Morgan
SR. ENGINEER, UX + EMBEDDED SOFTWARE
With hardware and software expertise, Tony helps our team select electrical components that will meet the size, power, cost and functional aspects of the technology. He helps create functional prototypes for iterative testing as well as production design and support.
Wearables Articles From Our Team
3 Things You Need To Know To Develop Wearables
By Stephannie Kia, Soft Goods Designer
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3 Opportunities in Wearable Robotics (And What It Takes To Develop Them)
By Jeff Burger, Sr. Industrial Designer
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How Digital Knitting Can Stitch a Better Bottom Line on Medical Wearables
By Stephannie Kia, Soft Goods Designer
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