Overview

During my 6 years of working at Mölnlycke Health Care as a Concept Designer within the R&D organization, I worked on a wide variety of projects in different product areas. However, the majority of my time was spent working in the area of the company dealing with the prevention of chronic wounds.

 

Tortoise® Sling System

The Tortoise® Sling System was developed in a cross-functional team with the design being based on the existing Tortoise, however the Sling needed to be compatible with patient lifts.

My Impacts

  • Early-phase, physical prototyping.

  • Created graphic design elements for the Instructions for Use.

  • Facilitated meetings with clinicians to demonstrate early prototypes and gather user insights, feedback, and wants.

  • Ensuring all labelling met FDA and European equivalent agency requirements.

  • Design Lead when working with international teams of subcontractors for technical drawings and graphic elements of Instructions for Use (see below for examples).

Tortoise® Sling System

Tortoise® IFU with pictogram illustrations

Tortoise® Sling IFU including illustrations

 

Mölnlycke Static Air Heel Protector

Technical File Documentation

Document and verify that current and new product lines met regulatory requirements to the FDA and European governing agencies in conjunction with the relocation of manufacturing sites.

  • Worked in close conjunction with manufacturing, QA, and RA to ensure all specifications were up to specific standards.

  • Facilitated and participated in design review meetings in order to allow the release of products to the market.

  • Modifying technical specifications to align with manufacturing abilities of new manufacturing site.

  • Project Manager for the Static Air product assortment.

 

Manufacturing

During my time at Mölnlycke, working directly with manufacturing was a big part of my day-to-day responsibilities. Below is a list of accomplishments and areas where I had significant involvement.

  • Worked closely with Production Leads and QA teams to shift production from a Mölnlycke owned manufacturing site to a subcontractor.

  • Creating specifications for products that did not previously exist in order to produce at a higher quality.

  • Working with subcontractors to integrate our designs into third-party systems and production lines.

  • Huge amounts of problem-solving along the way, including product redesigns/updates for optimization.

Mölnlycke Z-Flo Fluidized Positioner

 

Tortoise® Turning and Positioning System

Discovery / User Needs / Insights

  • Collaborated with marketing for initial market opportunity /direction.

  • Early conceptualization and concept exploration, including front-end research with clinicians to discover applicable features.

  • Shifted from initial market opportunity to specific, discovered user wants and needs.

  • Created highly specific design requirements based on ethnographic research intercepts and interviews with clinicians, doctors, and other healthcare professionals.

  • Translated user wants and needs to technical requirements for material scientists, chemical developers.

  • Competitive analysis around current state-of-art and problem/opportunity areas with competitor products (based on interviews with clinicians).