Design Inputs

No device can be successfully designed without identifying inputs through user needs, regulations, and industrial standards. Our team identified five key design inputs to guide the design of our inhaler.

The top three critical design inputs are that the actuations be within the industry standard margin of error for medicinal outputs. If we are making an actuator that we want to be sold in the market, then it is important that the device function properly in delivering medication when needed. The button taking no more than 50% of the maximum possible grip squeeze force that a 10 year old child can exert is also critically important, because again, the most crucial aspect of a device is that the patient is able to use it. Finally, user comparison surveys finding the new device as easy or easier to use than the current device is important, as in order to have a viable business, it is important that the new device be an improvement, otherwise there would be no demand to buy it.