Designing Simple Instructions for Medical Products

This book presents core principles pertaining to narrative and graphical content and explores the nuances of making instructions - an important part of a medical product’s user interface - safe, effective, and satisfying to use. it presents many design principles in an artful manner, replete with interesting, real-world examples.

Michael Wiklund is an internationally recognized human factors engineering expert with more than 30 years of experience. He has authored several books about designing products for safe, effective, and satisfying use. He serves as general manager of the human factors research and design practice at UL (Underwriters Laboratories), is a professor of the practice at Tufts University, and frequently speaks at industry events focused on safety.

Jonathan Kendler is a user interface designer and human factors engineer with more than 20 years of experience. He has designed user interfaces for various safety-critical products, including dialysis machines, robotic surgical systems, and infusion pumps

Katelynn Larson received a Bachelor of Arts in English/ Communications from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. She is currently a technical writer with Emergo by UL.