Month: August 2022

Human Factors domains, strategies, methods

August 29, 2022 By Lizzy

As many people don’t know what a human factors ergonomist does, I share this summary of strategy and methods. We help to bridge the gap between technology and humanity. https://bra.in/8jMgzP This link will take you to a ‘public brain’ created by me.

purpose

August 20, 2022 By Lizzy

purpose – an awakening of a way to be in the world, to live by our gifts From ‘find your why’ (Senek) to ‘you don’t have a purpose’ (Sanford), no wonder many of us (or maybe just me?) get confused at times, and would rather numb our brains and hearts just to manage our day […]

aggghh

August 4, 2022 By Lizzy

I find it really hard when a colleague phones and tells me they would like a reference. Happy to do that I say, but Why? I am resigning. The conversations then typically go something like this: Why – you love that place/that work?. Yes …but… a manager just told a senior group that x had […]

ethics and efforts

August 4, 2022 By Lizzy

This conference paper was presented by me at the IEA2021 – an amazing online congress of human factors and ergonomics researchers all over the world working out how to design better products and more enjoyable work for all. So grateful to the social enterprise for supporting me to gather the data and present their efforts […]

Portfolio – Usability testing

August 4, 2022 By Lizzy

What a usability interview looks like with a subject testing a wireframe of a web site What I did: Here I designed a web page (after a client briefing and critical/expert review of an existing site), used a digital platform to create the prototype for a web service (sales context), designed the test plan method […]