Charles L. Mauro CHFP is president and Founder of MAURO Usability Science (MUS), a New York-based consulting firm that specializes in advanced neuroscience-based human factors engineering and usability testing for FDA submissions.
Founded in 1975, MAURO Usability Science is a leading provider of services in usability science, formal user-centered product design, high-performance user interface design and design IP rights. Mr. Mauro is a Certified Human Factors Engineering Professional BCPE. Mr. Mauro has personally managed over 4,000 research and development projects over his 40-year career as a leading expert in human factors engineering, product design, and design research.
The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) has given its highest recognition the Personal Achievement Award to Charles L. Mauro CHFP President / Founder of MAURO Usability Science. Historically the Award has been given to leading design luminaries including Sir Jonathan Ive of Apple, Raymond Loewy, Henry Dreyfuss and others.
Mr. Mauro has a BS in Industrial Design from Los Angeles Art Center College of Design and a Masters degree in Ergonomics and Biomechanics from New York University (NYU). Before forming MUS he worked directly with product design pioneers Henry Dreyfuss and Raymond Loewy. He was directly responsible for research and development of mission-critical user interfaces, including the design of primary trading systems used on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. His experience spans more than 40 years and includes consumer, commercial, military, and aerospace applications.
He has received the Alexander C. Williams Award from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and citations from IDSA, NASA and the Association for Computing Machinery. Mr. Mauro served on several national and international panels and have chaired two ANSI standards committees. He also served on the Presidential Design Awards Program for the NEA and was a founding member of the Human Factors Society Special Interest Group on Consumer Products. He has consulted with many leading corporations on strategic issues of screen-based UX optimization, product design, usability science, Intellectual property, and fixed to virtual migration of products and services.
He has served as an expert in over 75 major IP cases covering design patents, trade dress, copyright, utility patents related to GUI & product design. Mr. Mauro holds numerous U.S. and international patents. He has been quoted in Fortune, Business Week, the Wall Street Journal, Science. Mr. Mauro is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences on UX optimization, usability science, user interface design and IP related matters. He lectures at leading graduate programs including MIT Sloan School, Stanford University, UPenn, Cornell, and other leading design schools and university design programs. Mr. Mauro has been a frequent speaker at USPTO Design Day and is the founder of NYTA UX Speaker Series Sponsored by Bloomberg.