Sofia Galbraith

Background

About Sofia Galbraith

Excellent Design Management of Industrial Design as well as UX User Experience activities as well as employing Design Thinking methods, both internally and with different design offices to support brainstorming as well as implementation during product development. Conduct and lead workshops involving marketing, development, design offices, and suppliers to generate ideas for actionable products and make decisions with all stakeholders. Responsible for Roche Diagnostics International Industrial Design Standard implementation and update together with the internal Industrial Design team. In this context, expert for color, surface quality process in close collaboration with Technical Supply Managment in Operations. Responsible for the Industrial Design process including the integration of hazard-related user scenarios according to IEC 62366-1. User interface development and control of the UX design process also in the regulated medical device environment. Conducting user interviews and research as well as providing support for the creation of questionnaires for handling studies and instructing moderators. Support and coordination of the necessary prototypes with rapid prototyping procedures or SW prototypes for handling studies. Extensive ergonomic knowledge of grip situations and forces in portable medical devices, such as pens, auto-injectors, insulin pumps and blood glucose meters. Since 2015 also ergonomic knowledge of laboratory equipment, which are working tools and therefore must meet more stringent ergonomic requirements, such as avoidance of fatigue. Extensive insights into many disease patterns by attending handling studies and group discussions with patients in the field of arthritis, diabetes, breast cancer and growth disorders. Since 2015 also insights in different point of care or automated large laboratories with pre- and post-analytics through user research, interviews as well as handling studies. Experience in the processing of plastics the effect of coloring and pigmentation with compound or master batch.