Human Factors Researcher

The data said it passed.The field said otherwise.

Two years running a hardware lab at Apple. I audited the instrument instead of the product.

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500+

participants across four concurrent studies

270

hours of lab time recovered

0

sessions thrown away, down from 1 in 5

The audit

Six questions. Eight faults.

The survey behind every fit and comfort decision. Tap an item.

What was underneath

Comfort, fit, stability. One force.

Pressure. A normal scale has one bad end. This one has two.

0slips out 5in band 10painful

Outcome

Most of it did not ship.

I can name what beat each one.

Anchor every scalelost toYears of data staying comparable

Rate thermal toolost toA 2.5 hour session cap

Multi-item measureslost toLength, and the answers it costs

Physical ear modellost toTime per participant

Elsewhere

Other work.

64%

Behavior change over five months

Honda 99P Labs · Lead UX Researcher

I built a playable Python game as the research stimulus, then ran a diary study to see whether it held.

10×

Lift in perceived product value

fuguUX · Lead UX Researcher

Forty interviews, surveys and concept tests turned into storyboards the team designed against.

50+

Interviews into the roadmap

Aftershoot · Associate Product Manager

Built the customer success function from nothing at an AI tool for photographers.

27%

Fewer no-shows

Apple · Research operations

Rebuilt recruitment, scheduling and the error-flagging workflow for the Austin lab.

Toolkit

What I bring.

Validity & reliability auditing Survey design Psychophysics Experiment design Moderated lab studies Longitudinal & diary Cognitive interviewing Participatory design Research ops Python SQL Tableau Dovetail Qualtrics Dscout Figma

M.S. Human-Computer Interaction, Carnegie Mellon.

Let's talk about what you're measuring.

iyeraarthi0202@gmail.com

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