ViVA health at work brings the discipline of design to work. Our focus is on how you work best: what do you do; how, why, where do you do it; and how could it work better?
When you want usability, productivity, engagement, health, and safety, this is what we do. Our focus is on the human element, performance, and the design strategy. We advance design literacy, capability, and capacity. This results in improved systems, products, tasks, jobs, and environments.
Healthy, happy, and engaged workers lead to productivity, creativity, and innovation. Good design can create a sustainable workforce and customer strategy – who you attract and why they stay.
Good ergonomics means great economics too.
Good Work occurs by design – a systematic approach to enquire, engage, and connect with people to understand what they do, how they do it, what resources are needed, in which environments, with whom, and how it could be done better. DESIGN is a way of thinking and effective design strategy co-creates a better world.
Learn more through our Good Work Design experience.
The ViVA services consider the human element in the design strategy: live, work, play, and be well by design
I THINK, therefore I am. I FEEL, therefore I must be (adpated, R. Descartes).
The CAPACITY to learn is a gift, the ABILITY to learn is a skill, the MOTIVATION to learn is a choice (adapted, B. Herbert).
Human-centred design explains the realities of work, product use, or relationships with the environment: Can people engage, play, and will they stay?
We ask: Are jobs designed so that they are meaningful, the workload manageable, and the work system reliable? Will production remain high? Is the environment conducive to work? Do products make sense to users? Do people feel included in the design strategy? Do the work activities align with company values?
We study people, culture, customs, habits, activities, environments, tools, equipment, and work climate. We synthesise complex research and combine this with real-world evidence: observing and engaging people at work or play. We collaborate through design to resolve work, environment, and product challenges and create new opportunities.
We help create novel, award-winning, agile design. This allows businesses to continually address market realities and live their values, like health and sustainability.
Our approaches draw from physical, cognitive, psychological, neuro, engineering, systems, and organisational sciences to design for performance.
ViVA health at work are human-centred design strategists, facilitators, educators/trainers, and research partners. We problem-solve work, environment, and product design challenges by considering the human element.
Since 2005, we have helped businesses and designers realise opportunities, enhance usability and performance, and construct health and wellbeing. We support a range of industries, including mining, construction, transportation, agriculture, utilities, manufacturing, distribution centres and supply chains, retail, finance, technology, healthcare, education, customer service, and architecture & design.
In this presentation, Dr Pazell used narrative storytelling to explain the work realities of threefictional, but relatable characters from different industry segments. Their experiences inform
Hosted by Tina WorthyGuests Dr Elise Crawford and Dr Sara Pazell In this webinar, we explore how to employ the discipline of design to create
Hosted by Dart Lindsley,Guest Dr Sara Pazell In every manmade job, place, and activity, design plays a pivotal role in shaping our experiences. Sadly, many
Three fundamental precepts of good work design:
1. There are distinctive motivators and drivers of human behaviour that can be shaped by design.
2. Work is a social determinant of health, safety, wellbeing, productivity, innovation, and sustainability. As such, it is a unique and viable design medium.
3. The design of work is improved by cogent, disciplined practice from a human factors’ perspective.
