
CERTAIN MEDICAL DEVICES REQUIRE MORE
ATTENTION ON DESIGN AND USABILITY
Abdusselam Selami Cifter & Ilgim Eroglu
Industrial Product Design Department, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University,
Istanbul-Turkey
The medical devices market is continuously growing in Turkey; how-
ever, 85% of the market depends on import trade. Although there
are Turkish brands competing in the market, it is argued that there
is a prejudice against these products. It was hypothesised that this
prejudice originate from the design and usability shortcomings of
‘made in Turkey’ branded medical devices. This paper summarises
and discusses the results of an interview study with 12 medical ...