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Goede Grond
 Dutch phrase. English translation is Good Ground.

When something is said to be good, its description may be skewed synonymous to the users perception. According to most dictionaries, there is an average of 25 variations to what good defines.

Ground refers to a surface.

Mathew 13 describes good ground through the parable of the sower."

GG Human Factors Assessment
An assessment tool that defines design criteria based on an individual’s physical, physiological and behavior needs.

This assessment is based from years of research and experience by a designer with the trade of Occupational Therapy and Industrial Design.

The results of the assessment will bring precise solutions for product, color, fabric, pattern, organization, and room flow according to what will be most beneficial to the user. If there are multiple users in an environment sharing room furnishings and equipment, the complexity to choose the best design choices rise.

The benefits of establishing user design criteria will reduce a wrong design choice, which in return saves money and time.

Saving Money

The user will save money through reference of their design criteria. Replacing products that ultimately wasn't the best choice requires purchasing a variation of a product for the task, then storing, reselling or disposing the old product. Knowledge of personal needs in design choices is critical on the impact of future physical and relational needs.

For example, consider the purchase of a desk chair for yourself. Now, look ahead three years to when you begin to experience physical discomfort. The pain you are feeling comes and goes at various times during the day and night. In the end, the repetitive position you sat in caused an injury that is irreversible. You may end up having to pay a doctor, therapist, insurance company, orthotic company or adaptive equipment retailer because the chair you bought three years ago wasn't fitted to your body mechanics.

Stress from physical and mental fatigue causes injury, as well as strain on interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships. These stressors may cost in medical bills, work absence, addictive behaviors and impulsive decisions which may cause harm to everyone, including the user.

Other examples of how you would save money through knowing your design criteria include: •purging items that no longer hold your interest,

•re-doing interior design choices,

•or buying additional items to compensate poor product design, incorrect product use, shared space needs or administering to an unnecessary task.

In order for the user to understand what would be the most beneficial product choice, they will need knowledge of: • How and why they arrive to their choices,

• Their physical strengths

• Their physical weaknesses

• And architectural, lighting and noise elements within the living or work space.

Saving Time

The user will save time in day to day tasks through knowledge of their design criteria. Product placement and inadequate product use may affect work flow or repetitive trips to complete tasks. When there are multiple users in a designed environment, under utilizing space configurations or human energy may require one individual to over compensate.

Architectural design choices based from the individual may benefit a prolonged life span. Unnecessary design elements according to market demands, designer preferences or user desires may cost in the time to re-think then re-do.

In addition, store trips or web-surfing for products or interior design themes may be time spent in the wrong design direction. The choices may lead to a waist of money, as described above.

GG Human Factors Assessment Specialist

The Human Factors Assessment tool was designed after extensive research, work experience and lifestyle experiments. Anita Prins worked in the healthcare field for seven years as an Occupational Therapy Assistant. Various health care settings she worked in include: •hospital,

•assisted living,

•long term care,

•work hardening,

•outpatient therapy,

•public elementary and preschools

•and psychiatric care.

The patients she worked with vary from infant to elderly, male, female and diverse races across Michigan and Ohio. The range of therapeutic intervention and services began a foundation of understanding user development, both physically and cognitively.

Her pursuit in design shaped her understanding of the process to research, ideate, form specifications, understand material and process, product functionality and form, modeling and user interface.