Stuart Karten is President of the award-winning Los Angeles-based product design and innovation consultancy, Karten Design. For 30 years, he has partnered with medical and consumer product companies, ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 corporations, to build their business through design.
Driven by strategic market understanding and deep user empathy, Stuart and his creative team of 30 have helped partners such as CareFusion, Boston Scientific, Baxter, Medtronic, and Johnson & Johnson address some of the medical industry’s biggest challenges, such as enhancing usability, improving patient compliance, and commercializing new technology. He is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and worked for Gould Medical Products, Mattel, and Baxter Medical Products before founding Karten Design.