Products by Definitive Design

We know that an informed and thoughtful design will improve the experience for product users. In the case of medical products, good design helps clinicians perform better, faster or with greater accuracy. That might translate to a shorter or less invasive procedure and a more positive healthcare...

Good design goes well beyond a sleek packaging shell. Good design should delight, empower, and quietly inform. Its qualities are perceptible by a variety of senses and so make an emotional connection to the user. This is the tipping point, when a product becomes the preferred and indispensable...

Prototypes provide the development team with a tangible model of exactly how a product will function and look before it is manufactured. We see prototypes as a tool for learning, validating design intent, mitigating risk, and assessing design for manufacturability (DFM) throughout the development...

We encourage the use of research in every project; the insights gleaned from our individually crafted ethnographic observations help us better identify goals and possible product attributes. Definitive employs two distinct techniques of research methodology: Exploratory and Validation....

We have developed a wide range of metal and plastic medical products including surgical tools and devices, organization hospital furniture, laboratory equipment, anatomical training models, implantables, and delivery systems. We understand the materials that are trusted by the industry and we are...

Definitive can provides startup manufacturing in-house. Definitive has partnered with contract manufacturers that provide domestic and offshore manufacturing and assembly design solutions. We encourage the end-manufacturer’s early involvement in the design process to minimize late design changes...