Each year the Interaction Awards Jury Chair takes on the task of assembling an international jury, accounting for diversity, and responding to submissions ethically, in a way that reflects the global community. Meet the team assembled by Gabriel White, our 2022 Jury Chair.
Gabriel White, Jury Chair
Santiago (Chile)
Gabriel is the founder and principal consultant at Small Surfaces, an international human-centered design consultancy focused on social impact projects in developing countries. Gabriel works on projects that seek to improve education, healthcare, and access to financial services for low-income people across Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. He also has a degree in Philosophy.
Dean Broadley
Cape Town, South Africa
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Dean is a Design Executive and IxDA Board member. He’s spent his career working hard to connect experiences in the physical, digital, and career spaces and finds great value in leaving things more human than he found them.
Currently the Founder of Designing Humans, an organization dedicated to professionalizing & strengthening design in Africa, he spends his time mentoring individuals, assisting enterprise design executives demonstrating the value of design, managing design practice at scale, raising design literacy, and developing sustainable talent pipelines.
Previously, Dean has worked in startups and tech businesses as a Product Designer, been an executive design director for a multi-national bank, and a digital communications specialist.
Outside of work, Dean spends his time with Design communities in South Africa creating the platform for designers to share, learn and improve through the practice of being human.
He is also an avid Chili breeder 🌶.
Erico Fileno
São Paulo, Brazil
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Erico Fileno is a designer and professor with more than 25 years of experience. He combines business, technology, and cultural practices, bringing collaborative & human-centered innovation to organizations and services/products to society, thus impacting the lives of millions of people every day around the world.
In the early 2000s, he was the pioneer for igniting Service Design, UX, and Interaction Design movements in Latin America. He created the first reference center on Interaction Design and UX in Brazil and the first graduate program in Service Design in the region. He was an important volunteer in IxDA Community, creating Interaction Latin America (2009) and serving the community as a local leader, lecturer, and — until last year — as Regional Coordinator for Latin America.
Nowadays, he is Executive Director at EY (Latin America South Design Studio) — part of a global organization with more than 1,400 designers working in business transformation for Fortune 500 companies.
Jay Dutta
Bengaluru, India
Jay Dutta, abbreviated to JD, is an Indian Design leader. In the last decade, he has built and scaled design teams, and capabilities, for Adobe India, Flipkart, MakeMyTrip, and now Udaan. He has advised multiple startups and unicorns as a Designer-in-Residence at the VC — SAIF Partners. In the journey, redefining the role and influence of Design in Indian Tech and Business. He is the founder of DesignUp Conference, arguably SE Asia’s largest and amongst its most influential Design-In-Tech Festival — listed by quartz.com as one of “the world’s most exciting Design Events”
After graduating from the National Institute of Design in India, JD spent over a decade in Europe, in the formative years of the interaction design discipline. After the dot com boom and bust, he went on to do an MSc in Design Management and co-founded his Design Consultancy in Manchester. Jay has shared his journey, insights, and learning at TEDx, Adobe Max, Collision, and multiple conferences across India, Asia, and the United States.
Sarah Fathallah
Oakland, United States
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Sarah Fathallah (they/she) is an independent designer, researcher, and educator, who specializes in applying participatory research and design to the social sector and cares about shifting how we engage communities and center lived experience in less extractive, harmful, and paternalistic ways. They have worked on engagements on various topics ranging from reproductive health to labor organizing, with impact-driven organizations such as the International Domestic Workers Federation and Open Society Foundations. In addition to their freelance practice, they serve as Senior Director of Research at Think Of Us and as faculty at the UC Berkeley Extension School and the Copenhagen Institute for Interaction Design.
Shikoh Gitau
Nairobi, Kenya
Shikoh is the CEO of Qhala, a Digital Innovation company that catalyzes digital transformation capabilities for organizations across Africa. She has over 10 years of experience in the Research, Design, Implementation, and Management of Digital Technologies. She has established expertise in both African and Emerging Markets specializing in solving problems in Agriculture, Education, Health, Payments, Retail and Renewable energies.
She is responsible for the set-up of Safaricom Alpha, a first of the kind corporate innovation hub in Africa. Where she worked as the Head of Products — Innovation and acted as the Chief Innovation Officer. Shikoh also led Safaricom’s foray into becoming a digital company, by putting together a strategy, and cross-functional teams to execute the strategy.
Previously worked with Africa Development Bank (AfDB), where she was leading and advising governments across Africa to adopt ICT for service delivery, she developed the Digital Government Blueprint {put links}, a strategic document to guide governments in digital transformation, now adopted by Smart Africa. She has also worked with Google and Microsoft in their emerging markets teams. She has received numerous awards in recognition of her efforts in influencing Business and Government as well as Technology.
Shikoh seats on various boards in ICT companies and contributes to a number of steering committees and think tanks on Africa and technology. Shikoh holds a PhD and MSc in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Recently, she was appointed to the COVID-19 ICT Advisory Committee set up by Joe Mucheru, Cabinet Secretary for ICT, Innovation, and Youth Affairs to facilitate containment of the spread of coronavirus in the country using information communication and technology. She also is part of the COVID-19 Modelling team, informing the Government of Kenya’s policy formulation using Data.
Xiangyang Xin
Shanghai, China
Xiangyang Xin, PhD, founder of XXY Innovation, Professor at Tongji University. Xin holds a PhD in Design from Carnegie Mellon University with interests in interaction, experience, service, and organization design, and looks at how design contributes to transformations of lifestyles, businesses, and cultures. He founded MDes Interaction Design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and served as the Dean of Design at Jiangnan University and acted as a guest professor in both design and business schools at several universities.
Apart from his educational experiences, Xin has worked on projects with various public and private partners internationally, and served as the president or a board member of professional organizations, including Alliances of Technology and Organization Transformation, Beijing Dragon Design Foundation, China Service Design Conference, China Industrial Design Association; served as a jury member for competitions including IXDA, G-Mark, Red Star, and many others, and so on.
Xin has received awards including “2015 Future Voice of Interaction Design” from IxDA, “40 Chinese Designers of 40 Years of Economic Reform and Opening,” “70 Designers of 70 Years of New China,” “Gold Medal Contribution to Design in China” from Dragon Design Foundation, 2018 Second Class National Teaching Award, 2013 “10 Best Industrial Design Educator of China,” etc.
The Interaction Awards, now in its eleventh year, recognize and celebrate excellence in Interaction Design across domains, channels, environments, and cultures. The 2022 winners will be announced on 27 April.
