Jon Kolko
Autor von Thoughts on Interaction Design
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Jon Kolko is the Founder and Director of Austin Center for Design, a progressive educational institution teaching interaction design and social entrepreneurship. Jon has held positions of Executive Director of Design Strategy at Thinktiv, a venture accelerator in Austin, Texas, and both Principal mehr anzeigen 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. His work focuses on bringing the -power of design to social enterprises, with an emphasis on entrepreneurship and large-scale industry disruption. weniger anzeigen
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- Jon is the Chief Operating Officer, and a Partner, at Modernist Studio, and the Founder of Austin Center for Design.
He was previously the Vice President of Design at Blackboard, the largest educational software company in the world. He joined Blackboard with the acquisition of MyEdu, a startup focused on helping students succeed in college and get jobs.
He is regularly asked to participate in high-profile conferences and judged design events, including the 2013 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards. He has taught at the University of Texas at Austin, the Center for Design Studies of Monterrey, in Mexico, and Malmö University, in Sweden.
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Exposing the magic of design : a practitioner's… von Jon Kolko
Little of constructive value to glean from this. Stilted academia in the first part and collected articles on various methods of synthesis for the rest, presented rather woodenly. For less theory and more punch, try Tom Peters's frenetic, staccato ADD short book titled Design
Good description of the synthesis process that sits between research & design. As an introduction to the idea of design synthesis as a specific set of methods to be applied in the design process, this is a great read.
The format in which the methods were presented was difficult—it's not clear why, at a given stage of the journey from data->wisdom, one method ought to be chosen over another, or the specific conditions that are best suited to a certain method.
There are a number of case studies. Some, like the Dubberly Design Office Java Map, clearly lay out the strategy and tactics behind the method employed, allowing one to help identify when & how such a method works in the context of a real project. Some do not.
Still, recommended to any practitioners not well-versed in the ideas of synthesis as a discrete piece of the design process.… (mehr)
The format in which the methods were presented was difficult—it's not clear why, at a given stage of the journey from data->wisdom, one method ought to be chosen over another, or the specific conditions that are best suited to a certain method.
There are a number of case studies. Some, like the Dubberly Design Office Java Map, clearly lay out the strategy and tactics behind the method employed, allowing one to help identify when & how such a method works in the context of a real project. Some do not.
Still, recommended to any practitioners not well-versed in the ideas of synthesis as a discrete piece of the design process.… (mehr)
This book is about design-driven product management.
It sets out a design process, its goals, and a fairly detailed look at some of the techniques within the process to support those goals. Through a hypothetical case study, we follow the process from beginning to end. There's not a deep discussion of theory behind the process within the book.
As well as the process itself, there are good tactical suggestions for employing the process, and great interviews with seasoned product managers who provide context and clarity around product management as a discipline.… (mehr)
It sets out a design process, its goals, and a fairly detailed look at some of the techniques within the process to support those goals. Through a hypothetical case study, we follow the process from beginning to end. There's not a deep discussion of theory behind the process within the book.
As well as the process itself, there are good tactical suggestions for employing the process, and great interviews with seasoned product managers who provide context and clarity around product management as a discipline.… (mehr)
Since the early 00s, the emphasis within interaction design on consumer products and discretionary use has grown considerably. In this book, Kolko addresses that design space through the lens of product management, and advocates a design-led process to focus on customer needs and feelings from ideation all through to shipping. The introduction, called "From design thinking to design doing", is one of the best and most accessible motivations for interaction design that I have seen in a long time, and the book moves on to introducing steps and techniques for design-led product development combined with interviews with professionals. Overall, the book has practical appeal and credibility; even though it is nominally aimed at product managers, I can definitely see a use for it in teaching interaction design students what to aim for in their professional role after graduation.… (mehr)
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