# Henry Dreyfuss **Domain:** Industrial Design / Human Factors **Doc Type:** Design-Lineage Node **Maturity:** Seed **Related:** [[Human Factors]], [[Affordances]], [[Mid-Century Modernism]] --- ## Definition Henry Dreyfuss (1904–1972) was an American industrial designer who emphasized ergonomics and the relation between products and bodies. ## Corpus Context His work helped establish [[Human Factors]] as a design discipline and belongs to the lineage of the [[Civilian Cockpit]]. ## See Also [[Human Factors]], [[Affordances]], [[Mid-Century Modernism]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]