CASE STUDY
MoMelan Epigraft
(The 3M Cellutome Epidermal Harvesting System)
In a compressed timeframe and with a constrained budget, develop a vision for an innovative medical device; an epidermal harvesting system used for obtaining and grafting healthy skin cells from a patient to their affected chronic wounds, encouraging and speeding the healing. Ensure design intent through commercialization process.
The Problem
To speed the healing of chronic and hard-to-heal wounds, develop hardware to embody existing IP facilitating a therapy that leverages negative pressure and heat. The solution must be compact for mobility and storage, while accommodating a small UI, cables and tubing storage, and an on-board cradle for the harvester.
The Team
Creative Direction + Production: Living Things
Design: Sunrise
Photography: Ben Gebo
The Solution
A discovery phase was enacted to understand the unique needs and user experience of the dermatologists in an office setting, and interactions between derms and patients during treatments. A divergent range of possibilities was explored to configure components and provide for future expansion. Development of industrial design language and navigating a process aligning disperate engineering and market goals, while maintaining the client’s brand attributes, and voice of the customer, constantly stewarding the user experience through to manufacture and assembly.
Services
Product Design