About us
Established: 2011
Indemnity: Company
Chartered ergonomists: 1
John Lovegrove is a chartered Ergonomist / Human Factors Engineer and Digital Human Modeller who specialises in using innovative and modern methods for analysing product, facility and system design from a human perspective.
John has continued to push himself out of his comfort zone, when using human factors methods, focusing on application that is widely understood and adopted by a diverse range of clients to improve their products, places and systems of work.
John set up Canary Designs Limited in April 2011, and provides support to the following areas:
- Aerospace Manufacturing
- Defence large infrastructure projects
- Nuclear Decommissioning
- Nuclear Generation
- Queens Bench Division (now King's Bench Division), London High Court - fall from height investigation
- County Courts (England, Wales and Scotland), Work related injury expert witness reports
- Industrial layout design for food / logistics / manufacturing companies
- Interior design for RNLI lifeboats Wheelhouse and Field of View Analysis
- Design of electric cleaning trucks
- Rail industry - safety work
John is a specialist in Digital Human modelling to run virtual user trials that visualise the interactions between the target users in a dynamic digital environment. John runs live interactive digital human modelling sessions with a range of stakeholders, enabling the users to explore their own design intent and expectations against a changing timeline reflective of the design lifecycle (i.e. assembly, installation, commissioning, operations, maintenance and decommissioning).
The methods used by John are adaptable and integrate seamlessly into modern digital design approaches.
