Open Q&A forum: Maximizing Human Factors in Early Product Development

In this session, our Emergo experts answer your questions about effectively conducting research and design activities early in product development and integrating these learnings into human factors deliverables and later-stage activities.

THE CONTENT OF THIS WEBINAR IS FOR GENERAL INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY AND IS NOT INTENDED TO CONVEY LEGAL OR OTHER PROFESSIONAL ADVICE.

Watch now: Maximizing Human Factors in early product development

Our team will help you understand how to effectively incorporate early findings as your product evolves and consider opportunities to begin what some manufacturers consider “later-stage HFE activities” in parallel with these early activities.

Forum date

Jan. 16, 2025

Speakers

Cory Costantino, design director, HFR&D
Tess Forton, BS, senior user researcher
Alexandria Carlson, lead Human Factors specialist

HFE expertise early in the development process

Conducting discovery and design activities at the beginning of a product’s lifecycle is foundational to developing safer and more intuitive products and can facilitate successful outcomes throughout the development process. However, manufacturers often approach these activities with a checkbox mindset that limits their ability to weave insights and early design explorations into subsequent human factors activities like usability testing and use-related risk analysis.

During this session, we share our insights on questions regarding topics such as:

Approaching traditional later-stage HFE activities more iteratively so you can build and refine documentation in parallel with development

Selecting appropriate discovery and design methods to maximize your learning

Socializing early findings among cross-functional teams

Avoiding scope creep in discovery activities to support key research objectives are met.

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