With the thousands of projects managed over the years, we feel like we’ve “seen it all.” While rare, in spite of the amount of preparation and planning, sometimes things don’t go as expected.
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Margo
Treat Auditor / Tennis Ball Catcher
Margo has been part of the Bold Insight team since she was a pup, which is also when the office learned to keep snacks above counter level. She brings boundless energy, an extraordinary nose, and a pair of eyes that have never once failed to get exactly what they’re asking for.
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Something unique about you summed up in one sentence
I’m a dog… in an office.
Your favorite part of working at Bold Insight
People really seem to like me. I come into the office to catch balls when it is winter in Chicago. What is not to like about Bold Insight? People play ball with me. Projects look important. Everyone smiles when they see me. But Coco and I sometimes give each other the side-eye.
In your spare time (or if you had spare time), you would absolutely do this:
Performing quality assurance checks on all dropped food items.
How long have you been in the UX field?
Ooh… a field sounds fun!
Read Margo's bold insights
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- Small UX team, big Q4 goals: how to keep your launch on track
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- Embracing design for multi-user households
- Unlocking team potential across locations: How to fix what slows your teams down
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- Mastering the balance between moderation and facilitation in UX research
- The FDA's PCCP: A game changer for AI-enabled medical device software
- Essential leadership skills for navigating complex user research projects
- Navigating the latest guidance in China for medical device human factors research
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- Diversity in research and why it matters: Exploring Black maternal mortality rates
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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
- Decoding the user experience of conversational AI
- GenAI at the inflection point: Navigating the third wave
- So you want to run a diary study: Five steps to successfully onboard participants
- 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?
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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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7 insights from the 2019 HFES Health Care Symposium
HFES healthcare symposium provides insight on FDA and regulatory perspectives, use of technology in research, interesting research methods employed, and cross-industry collaboration.
A Bold year to remember!
Guided by 20 years of experience, we are dedicated to using what we’ve learned to benefit our clients, empower our employees, and give back to our community.
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