Karen Korellis Reuther is a designer based in Boston, Massachusetts. She was formerly vice president of creative direction and innovation at Reebok and global creative director at Nike. She teaches on the design engineering programme at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and founded the Inclusion by Design event series, hosted by the Harvard Grid. Her first book, Man-made: How We Designed a World That Leaves Women Out, and How We Can Make It Right, was published in July 2026.
Product design desperately needs to drop the notion that things can be made based on an "average-sized" human being, writes Karen Korellis Reuther. More about "Women are living in a physical world that is too often designed without them in mind"