Myra Thiessen

Dr Myra Thiessen is a researcher in the Design Health Collab at Monash University and is the Program Coordinator for the Bachelor of Design (Communication Design) program in the Faculty of Art, Design, and Architecture. She has rounded expertise as a design practitioner, educator, and researcher specialising in design for legibility, readability, and usability. Her work focuses on information translation and accessibility, which is applied in the development of communication systems that enable all people to share and use information and to navigate complex environments. Dr Thiessen is especially interested in how motivation, context, and environment affect comprehension and decision making and she specialises in evidence-based design drawing on empirical research methods to test both the preference for and performance of visual materials.

Pass: transforming the airport security screening experience

in cooperation with Dr Indae Hwang