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Josiah Vik
Lab Coordinator
Josiah’s background in the music business and live event audio production brings a dynamic, solution-oriented perspective to the team. With over five years of experience as a touring audio engineer and AV production manager, he applies his skills to designing, building, and testing simulated lab setups. His technical expertise supports reliable data collection and seamless research experiences for our clients. Josiah holds a BA in Music Business and Entrepreneurship from Judson University.
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Something unique about you summed up in one sentence:
I'm always looking for the best possible way to do something, even if I've done it a thousand times before.
Your favorite city in the world is...and why?
It’s probably a tie between Singapore and NYC, mostly for the incredible cultures and amazing food!
Share your hobbies:
I love to play golf and wish our golf season in Chicago was just a little longer!
Long-term professional goal:
I want to do work that matters every day.
Favorite movie:
The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Favorite quote:
"If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently." -Calvin (Bill Watterson)
What superpower would you most want?
The ability to heal people instantly. Think of all the good that could be done!
What fictional family would you like to join?
The Weasleys seem like the kind of family I'd fit in with!
Read Josiah's bold insights
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- Navigating the latest guidance in China for medical device human factors research
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- Design for all: Elevate your product design to include all genders and sexualities
- Three steps to successful UX research on the road
- Integrating FDA's new cybersecurity guidance into medical device human factors engineering processes
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- Unlocking the power of user-centric design for business success
- Human factors optimization: How to leverage HF researchers in your medtech team
- Enhancing medical device safety and effectiveness: Leveraging knowledge tasks in healthcare UX and human factors research
- 3 considerations for accessible in-car UX research sessions
- Integrating AI with care: FDA reveals focus areas for forthcoming guidance on AI products
- Harnessing UX research to empower children and enhance parental controls online
- Revolutionising women's health: The power of Femtech and inclusive design
- Follow this framework to ensure your SaMD conforms to HF standards post-release
- AI Governance: Safeguarding innovation in an evolving regulatory landscape
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- The role of AI in transforming the car-buying experience
- The future of automotive infotainment: Connect the dots for an immersive experience
- The value of the daily fieldwork debrief: A critical piece of your UX research
- Context, accents, and privacy: Overcoming hurdles of AI translation tools in global UX research
- The role and challenges of speech technology in global UX research
- Generative AI in UX research: what are the risks and rewards?
- Lost in translation: Challenges second-language speakers face when using voice interfaces
- What medtech design teams need to know about AI regulations
- How to show up for your participants and colleagues this Pride Month and beyond
- Conducting research with kids? Considerations for running studies with adolescent participants
- Want to increase employee retention? Design your company around your employees
- Why employee experience should get the same attention as user experience
- Designing for accessibility? 6 considerations for a more inclusive user experience
- Not sure how to use AI tools in your UX research? Consider making it your sparring partner
- 3 crucial aspects of submitting a successful human factors engineering package to the FDA
- A voice for everyone: Embracing diversity in speech technology
- How collaboration builds value in medical device human factors research
- The UX of mental health: 5 considerations when designing a mental health app
- 4 make-or-break considerations for health IoT ecosystems
- 10 tips to better support a11y participants during user research
- 5 tips for remote UX research with the A11y community
- Six unique benefits of rolling research
- How can UX researchers support gender diversity and more inclusive design for all intended users?
- The secret communication weapon everybody forgets about in 2022
- Understanding user research regulations: how much do you know about participant privacy?
- Why and how your company should talk about pronouns
- Ten questions workforce leaders should be ready to tackle with the Omicron-fueled COVID case climb
- Why logistics are important: 4 considerations for planning global research
- Two tips for successfully preparing research materials for global studies
- How to prepare products for global research
- Four ways the pandemic has permanently changed UX research
- Support a company culture of self-advocacy with these four tips
- Improve medical device safety with these packaging design tips
- Moderating remote research sessions? 3 tips to help build rapport with participants
- 3 tips to successfully onboard in a remote environment
- Reflecting on an unprecedented year with mixed emotions
- Ageism and technology UX: Designing for seniors
- 5 tips to mitigate use-related risk for pre-filled syringes and other injection devices
- Working from home: Tips for designing your workspace from an ergonomics expert
- New Blog Series: Bold Insight and Orthogonal share insights about getting medical devices to market faster
- Rethinking experiences: UX and human factors research can help companies develop safe, contactless designs
- Remote UX research can reveal 5 key insights for auto manufacturers
- Will participants show for fieldwork?
- Webisode: Possible impact if in-person human factors research is not considered essential
- Now is the ideal time to improve the UX of your mobile app
- Human factors research in the times of COVID
- COVID-19: Using human factors and UX to make a positive impact
- Is FMEA inadequate for human factors analyses?
- Pros and cons of remote moderated testing: Considerations for ongoing research during COVID-19
- What we do matters: A Bold mission
- Be the student: 4 tips to be a better UX research moderator
- Care to share? UX considerations of the sharing economy for ridesharing, hospitality, and healthcare
- UX research reveals common concerns from HCPs about telehealth technology
- So, your recruit fell apart… now what?
- 7 insights from the 2019 HFES Health Care Symposium
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- A Bold year to remember!
- Four things to keep in mind when conducting on-the-road UX research
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- Is customer channel-hopping hiding UX problems?
- UX principles for robot design: Have we begun to baseline?
- AI benefits from GPU, not CPU advancements
- The critical component missing from AI technology
- Three things to improve acceptance of AI
- Recruiting methods and study logistics for human factors and user research
- Singularity and the potential impact on UX design principles
- Am I satisfied or stuck? The impact of ecosystems on household users
- UX and Brand: Delivering on the promise of experience strategy
- When designing an experience, are you really thinking about the customer first?
- UX project logistics: choosing the right vendors for project success
- Reclassifying diabetes: 3 implications for product design
- Designing your POS so it's not a POS
- FDA’s digital health precertification program emphasizes importance of post-market surveillance
- Confirmation Fatigue: Enough with the reminders already!
- 5 takeaways for human factors practitioners from the HFES Health Care Symposium FDA workshops
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Global UX, mastered: The UXalliance’s 20-year collaboration story
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the UXalliance. To celebrate this milestone, we sat down with Gavin, one of the five founding members, to discuss the organization’s history, guiding principles, and the benefits it brings to clients.
Human factors testing for OTC drugs and non-prescription medical devices
As the field of human factors continues to evolve, so must our approaches to testing and study design. While the FDA’s 2013 guidance laid the groundwork for study design and methodology, recent discussions and conference presentations have prompted a shift in how we approach OTC HF testing, leading to more comprehensive and realistic assessments of these products.