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Maximize Performance.
Boost Satisfaction.
Reduce Cost.

Research and engineering solutions to help you build products, services, and systems tailored to your needs

Building The Right System

Building the right product, system, or service is challenging. It requires balancing diverse user needs, technical constraints, business goals, and budget while minimizing risks and ensuring compliance.

We get it, and we want to help

Define what is the right system for your business and customers through research solution

Design and modeling solutions that align with needs and constraints by applying human factors engineering 

Capture performance, safety and user satisfactions metric through rigorous validation testing 

Working With the Best Clients and Partners

NASA

Abbott

University of Minnesota College of Design

Medtronic

Some Featured Projects

NASA

Human Factors Engineering

Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) is the living quarters and research facility for astronauts visiting the Gateway, on the lunar space station.

The Human Interface Panel (HIP), an emergency panel that is considered the last line of defense to save the space station and the astronaut was yet to be designed.

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Abbott

User & Market Research

While Abbott's software grew in both capability and functionality, its performance and user experience relative to competitors remained unclear.
 

To clarify this, I conducted a competitive analysis to assess how Abbott's software measures up against other solutions on the market.

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Educator

Guiding others to discover, learn, and achieve

  • Human Factors Engineering

  • Early User & Stakeholder Research

  • Brainstorming

  • Market Research

  • Task Analysis 

  • Use Related Risk Analysis (URRA)

  • Risk Management

  • Mixed Research Methods

  • Product Innovation

  • Usability Testing

  • Validation Testing

  • Summative Testing

  • Regulatory Guidance (FDA Usability, IEC 62366-1 & 60601, ISO 14791, AAMI HE75, EU-MDR, MIL-STD 1472, NASA-STD 3001 & 3002, IEC 82304-1)

Hi! I'm Simon Shamoun, and I'm a researcher, engineer and teacher.

 

As a human factors consultant and owner of Defensible Research & Design, and former engineer at NASA, I specialize in research and engineering to help design the right products, services, and technologies.

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