Overview
We shape ideas into real, usable products by blending creativity, rigor, and empathy. Our design team ensures that medical devices that blend into your day to day life, feel intuitive, and align with both regulatory requirements and brand impact.
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Why Arete?
Our design team doesn’t just hand off ideas—we embed alongside scientists, engineers, product managers, and QA/RA from the start. We bring together styling, ergonomics, usability, and manufacturability in a single seamless process. The result? Devices that look and feel right, work intuitively, and make it to market faster.We also bring deep expertise in Human Factors and usability engineering. From early design through validation, we work closely with clinical, regulatory, and quality teams to define and execute HFE strategies that align with global regulatory expectations and real-world user needs.
our expertise
Concept development and design refinement
We translate core product requirements into compelling physical and digital form through sketches, moodboards, and CAD refinement.
Prototyping and human factors engineering
Our team rapidly builds and evaluates prototypes through task-based testing, ensuring ease-of-use and risk mitigation.
Packaging, labeling, and instructional design
We design IFUs, labels, and unboxing experiences that balance regulatory requirements with clarity and user confidence.
Services Overview
Early Discovery Phase
Laying the foundation with insights, alignment, and intent
- Interview users and stakeholders to understand user needs
- Map user journeys, pain points, and context of use
- Conduct stakeholder interviews and gather voice-of-customer insights
- Identify ergonomic, regulatory, and brand constraints early
- Align internal and external teams around desired goals and personas
Conduct user research
Gather Insights
Define clear design goals
Concept Exploration Phase
Shaping the experience through creative and functional expression
- Generate initial sketches, form studies, and styling explorations
- Build CAD mockups for spatial layout, component stacking, and DFM insight
- Create photorealistic concept renders for CMF evaluation and stakeholder alignment
- Produce packaging, labelling and IFU concepts
- Usability testing and Human Factors Engineering
- Run quick prototyping cycles to explore ergonomics and usability
- Conduct early stakeholder reviews to validate direction
- Collaborate with engineering and assay teams to lock envelope and mechanical zones
Explore concepts
Create a vision
Prototype and evaluate
Detailed Design Phase
Converging design, function, and feasibility into manufacturable solutions
- Finalize enclosure geometry and CMF specifications
- Conduct fit, snap-fit, and tooling-readiness reviews
- Develop high-fidelity marketing visuals and animations
- Build functional UI+UX mockups for UI/hardware integration testing
- Create production ready artwork for Packaging, Labels and IFUs
- Perform iterative packaging and IFU design based on user simulation
- Deliver production-ready files with clear DFM documentation
Final design vision
Details to production
Validated outcomes
Testimonial
What stood out just as much as Aretes creativity and attention to detail was their professionalism and unwavering focus on ensuring we were satisfied at every stage. Arete made the entire collaboration seamless and genuinely enjoyable. They took the time to understand our goals, iterated with care, and brought a strong sense of ownership to the project.
Peter Vuong
Vice President of Product Management
