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Early-Stage Startups Must Answer these Questions to Raise Funding
If you’re the founder of an early-stage startup looking to raise seed or series A funding, you’ve no doubt been perfecting your pitch. You may have spent countless hours adding and deleting slides, unsure of exactly what investors want to see. At MANTA, we’ve worked with startups for over 30 years to bring innovative product…
Read MoreMANTA’s Guide to the Top Design and Technology Trends for the 2020s
3,000 foot cities. Hovering passenger vehicles. Men on Mars. That’s the vision that futurists and science fiction imagined for 2020. We may not yet have flying cars, but we’ve certainly become comfortable with rideshares, bikeshares, and even scooter-shares. The future once envisioned for 2020 may not in fact be so far off. Working with innovative…
Read MoreAccessible Mobile App Design: 5 Best Practices
In designing IoT solutions for medical devices, it is critical to design for the usability of both physical and digital interfaces. MANTA recently worked with a client on their mobile app design. As the elderly are a significant proportion of their users, they challenged us to craft a user-friendly design system for seniors. A 2015…
Read MoreMANTA Sponsoring MDG Medical Imaging Event
MANTA is sponsoring the Life Saving Medical Imaging and Diagnostic Innovations Event, hosted by MDG Boston, on Wednesday March 6, 2019. The event will take place at the Regis College Fine Arts Center from 5:30 – 8:30PM. The panel of healthcare experts will discuss how recent advances in medical imaging can reduce the need for…
Read MoreSensAble Omni in the News
The 3D Systems Touch, formerly the SensAble Omni, has been making headlines recently for its important role in surgical simulations. MANTA designed and developed the Omni for SensAble Technologies, an MIT start-up. The Omni – now Touch – is a haptic device that provides real-time force feedback to the user’s hand allowing them to touch…
Read MoreMobile Pixels DUEX Wins 2019 Edison Award!
Please join us in congratulating Mobile Pixels, a MANTA client, on winning a 2019 Edison Award for DUEX, their on-the-go dual screen laptop monitor! The Edison Best New Product Awards is an annual competition honoring excellence in new product and service development, marketing, human-centered design, and innovation. During DUEX’s 35-day Kickstarter campaign, Mobile Pixels raised…
Read MoreEvolution of Industrial Design Event Recap
The MANTA design team was thrilled to participate in the IDSA Boston Evolution of Industrial Design event, hosted by EPAM Continuum on October 4th. At the event, several leaders in the Boston design community gave individual talks on the past and future of industrial design, followed by a panel discussion moderated by Betsy, VP of…
Read MoreMANTA at PODD Show 2018
MANTA is exhibiting at the Partnership Opportunities in Drug Delivery (Boston PODD) Show on October 17-18, 2018. The event is located at the Westin Copley Plaza in Boston, MA. Please stop by our booth (#30) and introduce yourself. To set up a one-on-one meeting, please contact: Rich Miller, VP Engineering rich@mantadesign.com
Read MoreIDSA Boston: Evolution of Industrial Design
On Thursday October 4 Manta founder and VP of Design Betsy Goodrich will be moderating the Evolution of Industrial Design Panel Discussion, hosted by EPAM Continuum. This event is presented by IDSA Boston and will bring together top Boston design leaders to discuss the evolving world of design and the challenges that design faces in…
Read MoreNeuroMetrix Launches Quell 2.0!
NeuroMetrix, a MANTA client, has launched it’s new Quell 2.0 pain management system. MANTA and NeuroMetrix designed the more powerful and 50% smaller Quell 2.0 with an emphasis on optimized user experience for those suffering chronic pain. To learn more about the NeuroMetrix Quell 2.0, please visit their website here: https://www.quellrelief.com/
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