Five Questions for an Aurora Juror

Aurora's jury panels are structured around expertise areas — Product Design, Consumer Technology, Materials & Sustainability, Editorial Testing, Ergonomics & Accessibility — rather than named individuals for entries still in review, so this piece answers the five questions most commonly asked about the role in general terms: how jurors are matched to categories, what evidence they're shown, how conflicts of interest are disclosed and managed, how individual scores are calibrated against each other before a group discussion, and what happens when jurors disagree. Real, named juror profiles will replace this structural explainer as they are confirmed for the 2026 edition.