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Over Two Decades of Human Factors and
Usability Services

Since 1984, Monterey Technologies, Inc. (MTI) has offered excellence in user-centered research, analysis, design, development and evaluation services and products to our government and commercial clients. Our distinguished track record with our many clients and our increasing rate of annual sales is testimony to the quality of work that we do.

What MTI Can Do for You

MTI's expertise is in improving human performance by evaluating systems from the user's standpoint. Our technical staff have the qualifications to plan, develop, test, and implement human-oriented solutions that improve your systems, processes, and products, reaping a variety of benefits:

• Improved human performance, efficiency, productivity, and safety
• Improved products with better user interfaces
• Decreased user errors with lower support requirements
• More competitive products through usability testing and analysis
• Improved business processes through functional analysis and workload redistribution

What is Human Factors?

As humans and technology become more interdependent, the need to consider the human component in the equation is increasingly important. It’s not just about technology; it’s about the people using it, their goals, and how they work. Human Factors is the study, design, and evaluation of human-machine systems, with an emphasis on human capabilities and limitations as they impact system operation. The goal of human factors is to optimize system performance while maximizing human safety and operational effectiveness.

We employ a human systems engineering approach to analysis, design, and testing that emphasizes understanding a user’s capabilities, tasks, and goals in the context of use. We identify problem areas that hinder human performance and define improvements to human-system interfaces, such as hardware redesign, software redesign, GUI development, workplace and workspace layout, and business process redesign. MTI integrates technology with human behavior to optimize system performance, productivity, and safety while reducing human error and operational costs, and helping users and systems to succeed.

Human Factors Engineering Sharpens Your Competitive Edge

Technology designed without adequate consideration of the user results in poor user adoption, inefficient operation, increased user errors, elevated support requirements, longer product development timelines, and decreased competitiveness. To fix these problems, the interfaces must be redesigned. When Human Factors engineering is included early in the product development process, costly redesigns are avoided by doing it right the first time. We work with you to understand your products, your business goals and processes, and, most importantly, your users. We help you build desirable, usable products that help everyone win. Our time-proven, user-centered design process results in a more usable product, enhanced brand awareness, and increased market share. It keeps technical support, documentation, and redesign costs low, and it optimizes human-system performance.

Let us show you how MTI's human factors expertise can make a difference to your business. Contact us today.