Awards
- Medical Design Excellence Award2008
- User-Centered Product Design Award from Human Factors and Ergonomics Society2006
- Fast 50 Award from Triangle Business Journal2004
- Consumer Technology Company of the Year from North Carolina Electronic and Information Technologies Association2002
- Dana Dorroh receives Women in Business Award2002
- Excellence Award from Society for Technical Communication2002
Who We Are
HumanCentric is an integrated product design firm headquartered in Cary, NC employing a staff of 40 professionals trained and educated in human factors, research, design and engineering. The HumanCentric Group includes HumanCentric, HumanCentric Research, HumanCentric One Source, and HumanCentric Health, each offering a comprehensive range of services including contract research, design, staffing, and recruiting to commercial and government organizations.
Our foundation is based on our commitment to make more consumer-friendly products by studying and understanding the end user. We partner with clients to help develop products and systems that result in enhancing user experiences. The ability to develop compelling and usable products is a testament of our staff educated in human factors, graphic and interaction design, industrial design, and design engineering.
HumanCentric has 17,000 sq. ft. of office space including two state-of-the-art usability laboratories and a prototyping workshop. HumanCentric has extensive field research experience and capabilities to conduct remote usability testing across the country or around the globe. We also have capabilities that allow video/audio streaming from HumanCentric's test labs, allowing our clients to view their testing sessions from the comfort of their own offices.
Our goal is to understand how a person interacts with a product or system and to translate that understanding into a compelling design.
Our Vision, Mission and Values
HumanCentric's vision is to be a nationally and internationally recognized high quality provider of design research and product design services.
HumanCentric's mission is to provide exemplary research, design, and evaluation services for product design support to commercial clients by providing both cost-effective and cost-beneficial services that help our clients accomplish their goals.
Our core values are concepts that embrace the behavior necessary to be successful in achieving our purpose and our vision. It is these values that guide our daily behavior and set us apart as a company. HumanCentric's values include:
- Personal and Business Integrity - Treating employees, clients, collaborators, and competitors with respect, fairness, and honesty.
- Passion and Commitment - Believing in the value of what we provide and being committed to maintaining that value.
- Excellence - Bringing the highest quality technically, professionally, and personally to everything we do.