Jon Kolko
Jon Kolko at the 2014 Texas Book Festival
Jon Kolko is the founder and director of Austin Center for Design, a progressive educational institution teaching interaction design and social entrepreneurship.[1][2]
Jon has held positions of Vice President of Design at MyEdu, Executive Director of Design Strategy at Thinktiv, a venture accelerator in Austin, Texas, and both Principal Designer and Associate Creative Director roles at frog design, a global innovation firm. He was also a Professor of Interaction and Industrial Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design.[3] Jon has also held the role of Director for the Interaction Design Association (IxDA), and Editor-in-Chief of interactions magazine, published by the ACM.[4]
Jon is the author of the following books:
- Thoughts on Interaction Design, published by Morgan Kaufmann
- Exposing the Magic of Design: A Practitioner's Guide to the Methods and Theory of Synthesis, published by Oxford University Press
- Wicked Problems: Problems Worth Solving, published by Austin Center for Design
- Well Designed: How to Use Empathy to Create Products People Love, published by Harvard Business Review Press
References
- http://www.amazon.com/Thoughts-Interaction-Design-Second-Kolko/dp/0123809304/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1319240264&sr=8-1
- http://core77.com/blog/ux/jon_kolkos_interaction_design_diagramming_19269.asp
- http://www.business-designers.com/jon-kolko-my-heart-is-in-the-work/
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