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A portable, life-saving defibrillator

Designing a complicated device that’s affordable and transportable.

Client: Heartstream
A portable, life-saving defibrillator

Working with Heartstream, IDEO tested the effectiveness of alternative defibrillator configurations with different users to help develop a highly mobile and easy-to-operate product. Heartstream systematically refined the concept with the goal of making its defibrillators affordable, transportable, and as ubiquitous as fire extinguishers.

(This device is now manufactured by Philips.)