Insights

Thought leadership from the Shore team, covering in-house capabilities and what’s happening in the medical and pharmaceutical industry

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  • Instructions for Use

Empowering Users Through Effective IFU Design

  • UX & UI

The benefits of prototyping UI on representative hardware

  • People

Engineering excellence in ski touring: a parallel to medical device design

  • Engineering

Simulation to reality: Finite Element Analysis (FEA) for device safety and performance

  • Femtech

Pushing forward design for women and femtech devices

  • People

Meet the team: Q&A with Laura

  • Product Strategy

21 years on, why independence still matters

Illustration of a journey map showing multiple phases and peaks and troughs in a user experience
  • UX & UI

The strategic value of journey mapping when developing medical devices

  • Drug delivery

Topics we predict to be popular at Pharmapack 2025

  • Engineering

Electrical medical device design: integration of smart technologies

  • People

User experience in mountaineering: a parallel to medical device design

Will Davies presenting his poster on sustainable design
  • Drug Delivery

Will’s thoughts: PDA Universe of Pre-filled Syringes and Injection Devices conference

  • Prototype & Testing

Defining high-viscosity, large-volume drug delivery systems

  • Sustainability

Sustainable design for healthcare devices: pathways towards net zero

The image shows a woman field hockey player in action. She is wearing a maroon short-sleeved jersey and navy blue shorts, with matching maroon socks and orange shoes. The player is holding a black field hockey stick in both hands, poised as if preparing to hit or receive the ball. The background is an outdoor hockey pitch.
  • People

Wearable technology in hockey: a parallel to medical device design

  • Research & Planning

AI tools for medical device development

  • Diagnostics

Electrical medical device design: robust, ingress-protected products

  • Human Factors

How to avoid negative transfer in medical device development

The image shows a OneTouch Verio Reflect blood glucose meter surrounded by several digital display cards to represent global user interface. The cards show blood glucose readings in different languages, indicating measurements in either mg/dL or mmol/L. Each card includes a smiley face and a color-coded bar. The readings on the cards are either "85 mg/dL" or "4.7 mmol/L" with labels such as "Avant repas," "Vor Mahlzeit," "Pre-pasto," "Before Meal," and "Antes comer," signifying "Before Meal" in French, German, Italian, English, and Spanish respectively.
  • Diagnostics

Global user interface considerations for medical device design

  • Diagnostics

Electrical medical device design: product design integration

Four different OneTouch blood glucose meters displaying blood sugar readings using various range indicator graphics. From left to right: the first has a numeric display with color-coded dots underneath, the second shows a numeric display with three colour coded ranges, the third includes a text 'In Range' indicator to indicate the three colour coded ranges, and the fourth displays the result, using emoji, and a multi-colored range bar.
  • Diagnostics

The ROI of intuitive diagnostic device development

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  • Femtech

Designing for women: exploring femtech solutions to close the gender health gap

Student and Shore member of staff discussing a portfolio around a table
  • People

10 tips to perfect your design portfolio and land that dream job

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  • Sustainability

Paper injection moulding and medical devices: a plastic alternative?

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  • Work

20 years of designing world-class medical devices

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  • Prototype & Testing

Design verification testing: quality and reliability in product development

  • People

Meet the team: Q&A with Holly

Training & development at Shore represented by people discussing product development in an informal meeting environment
  • People

Training and development opportunities as a design engineer

High fidelity UI prototype represented by a person looking at a user interface on an ipad
  • UX & UI

Fast tracking medical device development by prototyping user interfaces

James Paulson
  • People

Meet the team: Q&A with James

Preview of the user interface for a blood glucose meter. Shows the use of emojis across different screens
  • UX & UI

Why emojis are important for user experience

Shore team conducting an internal user study to ensure patient safety is considered in the design process
  • Human Factors

Patient safety at every step of the design process

autoinjector with app to display connectivity
  • Connected Health

Transforming healthcare: connected devices and digital twinning

Members of the Shore team climbing a Scottish Munro (mountain)
  • People

Balancing work and life: Shore’s commitment to wellbeing

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  • Sustainability

Designing sustainability into pharmaceutical devices

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  • Human Factors

Lessons learned from an impatient in-patient

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  • Human Factors

Insights from an impatient in-patient

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  • Prototype & Testing

In-house prototyping & modelmaking for medical device design

Person carrying out COVID-19 testing alongside a car
  • Diagnostics

Developing a rapid blood diagnostic test

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  • Design

Designing kidney health for all

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  • Research & Planning

Transforming healthcare: artificial intelligence

phone with notification saying 'it's time to take your medication'
  • Packaging Design

Packaging a medical device: smart packaging

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  • Packaging Design

Packaging a medical device: sustainable packaging

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  • Sustainability

How a CarbonNeutral® certification fits into the wider sustainability journey

drug delivery device in packaging
  • Packaging Design

Packaging a medical device: packaging design

hands reaching for an inhaler
  • Usability

The importance of usability for inhalation devices

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  • Research & Planning

Using third party experts for confidential technical due diligence

Mechanical engineers, bex and caroline at Leith shorefront
  • People

Bex and Caroline: a shared passion for designing and engineering products

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  • People

Employee ownership: what it means for employees and customers

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  • User Centred Design

Developing a user centred drug delivery device – considerations and 5 key steps

  • Sustainability

Our planet, our health – addressing climate change and improving wellbeing

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