Human Interface Human

Annette Wagner describes herself as a human interface designer and artist. She began her career at Apple, where she held the job title of Human Interface Human. This suggests phrases like “humanizing business and technology” and “human-centered design.” Annette’s initial job title also implies a goal. Of course, it’s the job—not the title—that counts. As she puts it, “My main responsibility is to be a user advocate.”

[Found Terms] Designful Mind and Empathetic Research

Designful Mind
Kind of company that is agile, nurtures inventiveness, and has an enterprise-wide appetite for radical ideas. “A designful mind confers the ability to invent the widest range of solutions for the wicked problems now facing your company, your industry, your world.”

Source: The Designful Company by Marty Neumeier, Design Management Review, Spring 2008

Empathetic Research
Attempt to see the world with brand new eyes based on a naive viewpoint of the world. Synonym: Contextual research

Source: Conversations with Thought Leaders: Chris Conley of Gravity Tank, Business POV, May 10, 2007

[Found Terms] Democratic Design and Design Ecology

Democratic Design
Gives everyone high-quality products at affordable prices.

Design Ecology
Developing relatively cheap, attractive, energy-saving products to introduce everybody to ecology.

Source: And Now, to Try and Catch the Wind by Alice Rawsthorn

[Found Terms] Fly-Tipping, Whole-building design

Fly-tipping
British term for dumping garbage illegally.

Whole-building design
Looking at how architectural design interacts with the climate and how architects can apply new information, new materials, and new tools to that process.

Source: Dwell magazine, July/August 2008