Lead and completed extensive contextual inquiry study of users of industrial control, field devices, reliability, and field communicator products. No other known study of its kind has been done in this industry before, resulted in Emerson adopting Human Centered Design as an all-company program. Output included 25 personas, 2 stakeholder maps. Contextual inquiry involved 19 site visits of numerous types of industrial plants including power generation, refineries, chemical, and pharmaceutical.
Persona for field technician, based on contextual inquiry research.
On the back side of each persona is a diagram of work activity in relation to the other personas.
Based on our personas, I designed next-generation software for asset monitoring and reliability.
Also lead the design and research for a next-generation handheld device for industrial control.
