Molly Follette Story, PhD,
is President of Human Spectrum Design. Her expertise is in universal design of products and in accessibility and usability of medical instrumentation.

Molly was co-editor, with Jack M. Winters, PhD, of Medical Instrumentation: Accessibility and Usability Considerations (CRC Press, 2007). She coordinated development of and co-authored the Principles of Universal Design, and co-authored, with James L. Mueller and the late Ronald L. Mace, The Universal Design File: Designing for People of All Ages and Abilities (North Carolina State University, 1998). Molly holds six utility patents and has served as a consultant to companies including Kaiser Permanente, Sunrise Medical, Abbott Labs, Midmark Corporation Maytag Corporation, and MasterCard Worldwide. She has conducted research at University of California, Berkeley, North Carolina State University, and Western University of Health Sciences. Molly is a member of HFES, IDSA, AAMI, and RESNA; she is also a member of AAMI’s Human Factors Engineering Committee, which is developing the forthcoming AAMI HE75 standard, Human Factors Design Guidelines for Medical Devices.

Molly has been an invited speaker in the U.S., Japan, Germany, and England. She has served as a juror for design competitions including Medical Device Excellence Awards, Industrial Designers Society of America’s IDEA Awards, and KOKUYO Company’s Universal Design Award. Molly has degrees from Princeton University (B.S.E.), Stanford University (M.S.) and University of California, Berkeley (M.S. and Ph.D.).