Independent public-interest evaluations of how systems respect dignity and support agency.
HXR Documentation
The Universal Scope of HXR
UXR may examine and compare every kind of human-made system, from products and companies to cities, schools, insurance plans, laws, prisons, and automated gatekeepers.
Status: Open for Review Version: 0.6
HXR is not limited to software, websites, apps, or machine interfaces.
HXR may examine every human interaction with products, services, spaces, infrastructure, rules, institutions, and other systems human beings create or maintain.
The scope rule. If human beings shaped a system or a person's access to it, HXR may examine how that system affects people. Human involvement may include design, construction, maintenance, regulation, funding, automation, or mediation.
Forms of Human-Made Systems
- Physical: products, tools, buildings, roads, signs, controls, medical devices, and public spaces.
- Administrative: forms, queues, applications, appeals, records, eligibility, referrals, and support processes.
- Institutional: hospitals, insurers, schools, employers, companies, nonprofits, courts, prisons, and public agencies.
- Legal and regulatory: laws, rules, permits, enforcement, due process, and public obligations.
- Economic: pricing, contracts, fees, incentives, switching barriers, and cost allocation.
- Digital and automated: websites, applications, artificial intelligence, eligibility screening, decision systems, and automated gatekeepers.
- Infrastructural: utilities, transportation, communications, housing, and civic systems.
- Cultural systems maintained through authority: long-standing norms, professional customs, and institutional practices that shape access or treatment.
Many systems combine several forms at once. A healthcare referral may involve medical judgment, insurance rules, software, telephone support, records, regulation, and organizational incentives.
Universal Scope Does Not Mean One Method
Healthcare, traffic engineering, software, taxation, education, incarceration, and product design require different expertise and measurements. Those domains remain parts of one parent project governed by the same commitment to human agency, evidence, proportionality, and reform.
Operational Sequence
Universal scope does not require simultaneous implementation. HXR will develop domain-specific methods in deliberate stages, prioritizing areas where the stakes, available evidence, and ability to produce responsible findings justify action.
Human Costs Beyond Monetary Economies
Burden transfer and human externalities exist even where no money changes hands. Commercial and noncommercial systems alike can move work downstream.
Public agencies, nonprofits, communal systems, militaries, and post-scarcity systems can transfer delay, coordination, repeated work, confusion, risk, or attention onto the people who depend on them.