Jon Kolko, Co-Editor-In-Chief
Jon Kolko is an Associate Creative Director at frog design. He has worked extensively in the professional world of interaction design, working around complicated technological constraints in order to best solve the problems of Fortune 500 clients. His work has extended into the worlds of consumer electronics, supply chain management, demand planning, and customer-relationship management, and he has worked with clients such as AT&T, HP, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Ford, IBM, Palm and other leaders of the Global 2000. The underlying theme of these problems and projects was the creation of a solution that was useful, usable, and desirable. His present research investigates the process of Design, with a focus on Design Synthesis and the creation of meaning.
Prior to frog, Kolko was a Professor of Interaction and Industrial Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design, where he was instrumental in shaping the Interaction and Industrial Design programs. He is the author of the text Thoughts on Interaction Design, and has been widely published in ACM SIGCHI, IDSA and the European Academy of Design Proceedings. Kolko sits on the Board of Directors for the IxDA.
Jon was talking about User Experience Design for Ubiquitous Computing , and wrote:
Mike's personal blog, over at Orange Cone, has some more great insights into ubiquity and technology.
