Hazlo Usable

Hazlo Usable (“Make it Usable” in English) is the first user experience company in Costa Rica, dedicated exclusively to usability and human centered design. Hazlo Usable provides the backbone to products and services that respond to human values, interests, and experiences. We discover valuable ways of engaging and innovating through well-informed design. Some of the services that we provide include user research, experience design, usability testing, content strategy, information architecture, and design thinking workshops. Our company strives to bring the holistic approach of user experience into companies, social organizations, and public institutions to help them weave significant relations between people, services and products. Experimenting with the Internet of Things (IoT) since 2014. Projects-InnovaPop: Consulting services for the Internet of Things product introduction-ProximityCR: Internet of Things Consumer Products Tech Talk-Mujeres en Tecnología en Acción: Teach usability and user-centered design to young women to develop a mobile app as part of an entrepreneurship program for vulnerable populations by Ideas en Acción-TEDxJoven: Social interaction design and networking games for 150 attendees. Used co-design workshops with users and stakeholders to design the experience of the conferences and breaks during the event-PSD2HTML: Research-based wireframes for luxury e-commerce store-Redstone Apps: In-context user research and usability testing for web and mobile interfaces. Cenfotec University: Assistant professor at “Introduction to User Experience Design” semester course. Related articles: http://designvale.com.br/2015/11/07/entrevista-o-design-antropologico-de-armonia-alvarado/ http://anthropologizing.com/2014/04/28/anthropologists-in-practice-an-interview-with-design-anthropologist-armonia-alvarado/