Expert Team, Right Sized Projects
Each of our clients has unique needs and regulatory expectations for their human factors/usability engineering activities. Our expert team of human factors specialists have the skill and experience to understand and meet your specific needs. We tailor our processes to find the right balance between project needs and regulatory expectations.
Here are a few of the Human Factors/Usability Engineering capabilities we offer:
- Formative Usability Testing
- Summative Validation Testing
- Comparative Use Testing
- Threshold Analyses
- Task Analyses
- Heuristic Analyses & Expert Review
- Regulatory Review and Inputs
- HFE Documentation (HFE/UE Plan, HFE/UE Report)
What We've Done
From contextual research for early design inputs, to summative usability studies supporting FDA submission, our pragmatic usability and human factors research approach finds the answers without breaking the budget.
Medical Device Usability
We conduct formative and summative usability validation studies for FDA submission. Our experience ranges from home use injectables to specialized surgical equipment.
User Comfort and Compliance
Our human factors team is experienced with assessing and improving the wear experience for a variety of medical and industrial wearables. Ultimately leading to a product that offers superior user experience, comfort, and improved user compliance.
Instructions for Use / User Experience
Our team has the skills and knowledge to identify where you customers’ experience may be missing the mark, and the expertise to help you improve the end-to-end customer experience.
Working with Partners Big and Small
Meet Our Healthcare Human Factors Experts
Shane Stassen
SR. HUMAN FACTORS SPECIALIST
With almost 25 years of experience in human factors research for product development, including the past dozen years focused on medical devices, Shane applies his expertise to evaluate and inform product development and promote usability of products for end users.
Andrew Miranda, PhD
SR. HUMAN FACTORS SPECIALIST
Cognitive psychology is his bread, human factors is his butter. Andrew has a deep appreciation for the importance of the empirical foundation of human factors and usability research, such as psychology, statistics, and experimental design. A PhD in Human Factors Psychology along with over fifteen years of experience conducting research has helped make him a unique contributor to the human factors research team. Andrew enjoys executing human factors research throughout the product development lifecycle, from early formative usability testing to final human factors validation testing.
Colton Turner, PhD
SR. HUMAN FACTORS SPECIALIST
With a Ph.D. in Human Factors Psychology from Wichita State University, Colton enables the product development team to cater to the end-user by conducting and analyzing user research while applying his knowledge of human factors principles. He enjoys gaining insights from interacting with real users and communicating his research findings to industry partners in a way that will lead to productive design solutions. His natural curiosity allows him to ask important design questions and formulate them into research goals.
Katie Price
HUMAN FACTORS SPECIALIST
With a passion for product testing and usability, Katie is experienced in the preparation, execution, analysis, and reporting of Human Factors studies. Katie’s goal is to be the voice of the user in order to create intentional, thoughtful products for use in the medical and consumer industries.
Ariel Roy, MS
HUMAN FACTORS SPECIALIST
Ariel brings years of valuable experience in human factors research to the team, with a master’s degree in Human Factors and years of research experience within the medical domain. Ariel evaluates and enhances the usability of medical devices, ensuring they meet the needs of end users effectively. Her goal is to understand user interactions and foster the creation of intuitive and impactful medical devices.
Sara Bodde, MS
SR. HUMAN FACTORS SPECIALIST
Sara has more than a decade of experience in the field of human factors applied to industries such as Medical, Automotive, Consumer Goods, Defense, and Web and software applications. She has led the development and execution of research conducted in all parts of the design process from idea generation through final user validation testing. Her background in psychology and user design helps her navigate the balance between human factors principles, user needs, and product development.
Kayla Nickley
SR. DESIGN RESEARCH SPECIALIST
With a background in industrial design, Kayla loves uncovering how people interact with and relate to the tools they use. She aims to provide actionable recommendations in addition to insights about products and their end users.
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