Moore is an internationally renowned gerontologist and designer, serving as a leading authority on consumer lifespan behaviors and requirements. For a period of three years (1979-1982), in an exceptional and daring experiment, Moore traveled throughout the United States and Canada disguised as women more than eighty years of age. With her body altered to simulate the normal sensory changes associated with aging, she was able to respond to people, products, and environments as an elder.

Her broad range of experience includes Research, Product Development and Design, Environmental Design, Package Design, Transportation Design, Market Analysis, and Product Positioning. Clients include: AT&T, Baxter Healthcare, Bell Communication, Beverly Enterprises, Canadair, Corning Glass, General Electric, GTE, HeritageHealthcare, International Playtex, Johnson & Johnson, Johnson Wax, Kimberly-Clark, Kraft General Foods, LOrad, NASA, Norelco NA, Merck, Sharp and Dohme, Manor Care, Marriott, Maytag, Monsanto, OXO, Personal Products Company, Procter & Gamble, Searle Laboratories, Sunbeam NA, 3M, Valley Metro Rail, and Whirlpool.

Moore is a frequent international lecturer, media guest, author of numerous articles; the books DISGUISED: A True Story, The Business of Aging [2005], and OUCH! Why Bad Design Hurts [in work]. She is co-author of the American National Standards Committee on Anthropometry, a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Physical Therapy Association, the Harrington Arthritis Research Center, the Herberger Center for Design Excellence at Arizona State University, the Advisory Board of CARF [Certifying Association of Rehabilitation Facilities], and The American Occupational Therapy Association.

Moore holds undergraduate degrees in Industrial & Environmental and Communication Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology (Awarded "Alumna of the Year" 1984), and graduate degrees in Psychology and Counseling and in Human Development (Social Gerontology) from Columbia University; Completion of Advanced Studies in Biomechanics at New York University’s Medical School & Rusk Institute.

She was selected for the 1996 Community Service Award of the American Rehabilitation Association, for advancing independence and quality of life with environmental design, the American Hospital Association’s 1996 NOVA Award for the "Family Road" Care Centers, holistic health environments for the promotion of appropriate childcare and parenting, the American Occupational Therapists Association’s 2005 Leadership Award, and has been internationally honored for her work with OXO Good Grips™.

Moore was presented with the Professional Recognition Award by the Arizona Design Institute [1997] for fostering excellence in design and support to design education. Moore was the 1996 & 1997 Carnegie Mellon University Visiting Design Chair, is an Adjunct Professor of Industrial Design at Arizona State University, and lectures at universities throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Australia; Russia.

Moore has been named by ID Magazine as one of The 40 Most Socially Conscious Designers in the world and was selected in 2000, by a consortia of news editors and organizations, as one of The 100 Most Important Women in America. ABC World News featured Moore as one of 50 Americans defining the new millennium.