The Mill was a revolutionary sterile medical device. This bone mill was released by Stryker Instruments to much fanfare around 2014. The patented blade and catch-bin design was revolutionary for the industry, where bone mills are used to mill a surgery patient’s own bone to make cement while performing joint replacement and other major surgery. It was already known that using the patient’s own bone decreased the rate of new joint rejection in surgery patients, but many of the mills at the time worked like food processors or coffee grinders.
The Mill’s patented design used unique blade shapes to stay sharp and sequester the ground bone in a chamber below the blade so that it wasn’t re-processed over and over, causing heating and degradation of the bone material long before it could be used for the procedure. Like many Stryker Instruments innovations, this one really made a change in how the industry approached large joint replacement surgery and the effectiveness of those procedures.
Working closely with the Product Managers at Instruments I headed up discovery to learn about the Mill and its users. Wireframes for the product landing page were produced, as well as user flows and site templates for the Cisco-produced enterprise CMS that the Stryker site was built with.
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