The Instituto de Biomecánica (IBV) offers design services and develops person-oriented products and services covering all phases of the process and integrating users as the indispensable source of information. Paying special attention to the end-user, the IBV provides products with added values at each process phase, due to its broad R&D experience and the implementation of innovative product development tools and methodologies.
Person-oriented design services especially address those services and products with strong functional and emotional dimensions and where IBV’s know-how as technological and research centre provides a greater added value: medical devices, footwear, furniture, working tools and personal protective equipment, among others.
Services are structured as follows:
- Analysis of future consumer and/or end user needs
- Generation of innovative usage and purchase concepts with strong potential
- Functional and emotional assessment of product and service design
- Concept/prototype validation
- Innovation testing of new design solutions
- Usability testing
- Emotional engineering applied to product development
- Assessment of point-of-sale design and communications based on customer needs
- Specific services in those areas where the IBV develops its activities
For further information on the activity of the IBV in the field of person-oriented design please access its specific website: