Arthroscopic AR Navigation - 2026
TESSA - Spatial Surgery
I worked as the Industrial Design Lead for the TESSA system: leading the design of the Console and all the Instruments. I also worked alongside our UI/UX designer on the Tablet app and Surgical Display designs.
For the TESSA console, we wanted to communicate that this is something special and different from your typical capital equipment, while also carrying forward our SN Design language that I helped to develop and lead across Smith & Nephew new product development.
The TESSA instrumentation designs were guided strongly by human factors studies and ergonomic research. Each device is designed to make its respective task as easy and comfortable as possible.
Across the TESSA system, we leveraged a hexagonal pattern as a key design detail. This hexagon shape is an abstraction of our cube Marker, a key component that’s visible at all times in the joint space during a TESSA case.
On the TESSA console, we used this hexagonal pattern with our advanced LED array, bearing a series of animations to communicate system state to the user.
On the TESSA instrumentation, we utilized our hexagonal pattern as a rib structure for the injection molded handles, tying the system together with a simple shape derived from a key system component.
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