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Karten Design Lends Expertise to MBA Students
August 1, 2012
Karten Design Principal Stuart Karten and Design Strategist and Researcher Erin Mays lent their expertise to the critique of students’ final projects in a new Product Innovation and Management class at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management. The class is taught by professor Eric Rose, co-founder of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Product Development and Management Association , who covers topics and processes relating to new product development, new product management, and product innovation management. Read More
Wireless Connectivity in Medical Devices is a two-day conference designed to bring together the major industry players and tackle the barriers to entry into the emerging wireless medical device market. On July 26, Stuart Karten participated in a panel discussion on identifying the needs of a wireless medical device end-user to ensure usability. He addressed discovering the physical, cognitive, and emotional needs of the multiple stakeholders who interact with a Wireless Health product, from doctors and nurses to patients and caregivers. Read More
Karten Design's V2 Renal Denervation System for Vessix Vascular is in contention for the best new product of the future in the Create the Future design contest. Launched in 2002 by the publishers of NASA Tech Briefs magazine, Create the Future helps stimulate and reward engineering innovation. The annual event has attracted more than 8,000 product design ideas from engineers, entrepreneurs, and students worldwide. Read More
Karten Design was recognized by the IDSA with an International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) for a medical device that performs a fast, one-time procedure to treat hypertension. Vessix Vascular V2 Renal Denervation System’s V2 Radiofrequency Generator was honored with an IDEA Bronze in the Medical & Scientific Products category. Read More
Stuart Karten shared product development insights with Medical Product Manufacturing News, the magazine connecting medical device manufacturers with the cutting-edge technologies and suppliers they need to design, develop, innovate, and fabricate next-generation medical products. From defining a research process that uncovers the needs of all stakeholders through designing a device to meet the heightened expectations of consumers accustomed to the iPad, Stuart shared trends and opportunities in medical device design. Read More
As experts in researching and designing products that meet the distinct needs of older users, Stuart Karten and Director of Design Strategy and Research Ron Pierce presented a webinar to The Aging Technology Alliance on the tools and strategies they've used to design products for older users, (and build market share for clients.)
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Headphones Get Students Amped About Design
May 16, 2012
Karten Design and the Da Vinci Design School celebrated the culmination of our two-month “Ed-U-Creationship” partnership with a special one-night exhibition at the A+D Museum, where ninth-grade students presented working headphones that promote social change.
Karten Design’s product designers and design researchers worked with 60 students at Da Vinci Design School to design headphones that spread messages of social change. Read More
Karten Design announces a new medical system for Vessix Vascular! The V2 Renal Denervation System is a new device treatment for high blood pressure.
In as little as 30 seconds per artery, the Vessix V2 System performs a one-time minimally invasive procedure shown to significantly reduce blood pressure — a procedure that Dr. Mehmet Oz has called “a profound game changer.” This new technology has the potential to help the one in three adults in the United States who suffer from hypertension, a condition more common than cancer, diabetes, and coronary artery disease combined. Read More
Karten Design is partnering with the Da Vinci Design School, a design focused charter school in Los Angeles that uses hands on, project-based learning to give lessons real-world context and meaning. For 8 weeks, our researchers and designers have been teaching product innovation to ninth grade students in the context of their physics and humanities classes, and facilitating a project that requires students to apply design thinking, creativity, innovation, collaboration, and problem-solving. Read More
Karten Design Creates Exclusive Wearable Art for A+D Museum
March 20, 2012
Karten Design makes its fashion debut with “Street Lace” — an expressive, fashion-forward ensemble of a hat and wrap inspired by the organic nature of Los Angeles streetscape that ties what you wear to where you’re from. Read More