Lorraine Justice, PhD, FIDSA

Lorraine Justice, PhD, FIDSA

Dr. Lorraine Justice is currently the Swire Chair Professor and Director of the School of Design at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She has served in higher education for the past 20 years, in the areas of design research, industrial design and computer interface design.

Prior to joining The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Professor Justice was Director of the Industrial Design Program in the College of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). Professor Justice was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant on the integration of technology and design, a SIGGRAPH Educator’s Grant, and a team Smithsonian Award in Education for the Mission to Mars" exhibition developed in cooperation with the National Science Foundation and Apple Computer. She is a Fellow of the Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA). Dr. Justice has consulted on design with corporations such as Apple, CompuServe, Chemical Abstracts, CheckFree, Microsoft, NCR, and Lutron.

Dr. Justice was responsible for co-organizing the First China-USA Industrial Design Conference in Beijing, and the first Doctoral Education in Design Conference in Ohio, both well-attended international events. She also serves on the editorial board of three international design journals, International Journal of Design, Design Studies and The Design Journal, as well as jurist and reviewer for international conferences. She has twice served on the Business Week/IDSA IDEA jury for best products and is a jurist for international paper competitions.

Professor Justice was named one of the top 40 influential designers in the world by I.D. Magazine in New York City for 2006. In September 2008, she gained the IDSA Education Award which was regarded as one of the highest honors as an educator.

Currently she also serves as Executive Board of Directors for the Icsid.