This is an informal notice, issued while awaiting formal approval through the various required committees for the official recruitment advertisement. The Design Lab at the University of California, San Diego is now in its 6th year of operation, established by the chancellor to become a major international center for human-centered design, with the focus upon design as a way of thinking, especially dealing with a people-centered approach to complex sociotechnical systems. The Design Lab’s founding director, Don Norman, has announced his desire to retire from this position at the end of the 2019-2020 Academic year (June 30, 2020). UC San Diego will perform a major, international search for the new director.