Why Medical Products Fail and How Design Controls Can Prevent It, with John Crombie

Design discipline is your competitive advantage.Discover how voice-of-customer insights and design controls enable strong science to become products that regulators clear and clinicians adopt.This episode explains why many medical products fail despite strong science, and how structured design thinking can dramatically improve outcomes. John Crombie shows how voice-of-customer insights and design controls translate clinical needs into fundable, buildable, and approvable products. You’ll learn why these processes matter to regulators and investors, and how they protect innovation rather than slow it down. For academic and early-stage founders who see design controls as bureaucracy, this conversation reframes them as powerful tools for reducing risk and increasing the chance your product actually reaches patients.