The largest source of design input is market research. Understanding the market gap for your product can help to understand what services need to be fulfilled by your product. From this market research, an outline of customer needs can be developed. The way to meet each of these needs will require detailed technical research that will outline the physical and performance characteristics of your device. The design inputs are the foundation of what the product will become. The source of all the data collected here will be highly concentrated in what is already in the market. Current market trends for the product specific medical industry will show what criteria needs to be met by the design. The higher level requirements which are the design inputs will soon lead to the lower level more specific outputs for the project after thorough technical research is performed.