Experience Innovation™

Smart ideas need a smart approach because invention has value only when it connects meaningfully to the marketplace. Our goal is to create products that are breathtakingly beautiful, commercially game-changing and functionally elegant.

Integrated Process

Our modified stage-gate process integrates strategy, research, marketing insight, design innovation, engineering with customizable levels of documentation support to drive the development of break-out retail products as well as innovative medical devices including certification compliant documentation. Contact us to learn more about our integrated development process.

Medical Device Design, Health + Wellness Programs

Medical and health programs requiring certification have special needs in terms of process documentation and testing. We can support FDA compliance with design plan, design controls, documentation, requirements changes, validation etc.  Modern Edge also has experience supporting programs with UL, CE and with most other certification agencies. We can support ISO compliant manufacturers, and certain types of medical research. Our experience in the medical field ranges from physical devices, such as stent placement devices and diagnostics equipment, to experience and service design in medical centers and in the field. Among some of the features of our integrated process:

  • Synchronizing Requirements Management and Design Controls
  • Requirements Management Process to prioritize Essential Requirements and Critical to Quality Requirements
  • Appropriate elaboration on requirements to ensure ease of development and testing
  • Proper evaluation and acceptance of requirements.
  • Bi-directional traceability of requirements
  • Management and control of requirement changes.
  • Selection of requirement metrics

Approach:

Define + Discover

We combine market data, brand strategy and original consumer insight research to create a strategic framework that defines and guides the design and development process. We incorporate prototyping early in the research process to drive actionable findings.

Design + Develop

Beauty + design thinking x rapid iteration = robust development. We take the concept development and mesh it with the prototyping process through a combination of models, prototypes, CAD simulations and limited run manufacturing to prove out technologies, realize creative options, and bring consumers into the creative process prior to production tool commitment. The result is robust concepts that can be realized in the production phase.

Document + Deploy

We incorporate production early in the research process and then drive the findings through the process to ensure that our production release packages are robust and reflect the constraints of lean manufacturing, in order to meet cost and production goals.

Capabilities:

PRODUCT DESIGN SENSORY ENGINEERING INTERACTION DESIGN SERVICE DESIGN GRAPHIC DESIGN ENGINEERING + SYSTEMS INTEGRATION PROTOTYPING AND CONSTRUCTION CONSUMER FEEDBACK + TESTING EXPERIENCE DESIGN DESIGN RESEARCH + ETHNOGRAPHY BRAND FRAMEWORK BRAND STRATEGY NAMING + MESSAGES CONCEPTUALIZATION EXPERIENCE PROGRAM COMMUNICATIONS PROGRAM MANAGEMENT CAPABILITIES LAUNCH + REGULATORY SUPPORT THEMED + RETAIL ENVIRONMENTS COLLATERAL DEVELOPMENT PACKAGING DESIGN CAD MODELING VISUALIZATION + RENDERING DOCUMENTATION SOURCING SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING