Jon Kolko

Personal Homepage:
http://www.jonkolko.com/
Current place of employment:
The Austin Center for Design

Jon Kolko is an Associate Creative Director at frog design, and the Director of the Austin Center for 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.

Kolko's present work is heavily influenced by his prior role as 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 presently sits on the Board of Directors for the Interaction Design Association (IxDA), and is the Editor-in-Chief of interactions magazine, published by the ACM.

Kolko is the author of Thoughts on Interaction Design, published by Morgan Kaufmann, and the forthcoming text tentatively entitled Exposing the Magic of Design: A Practitioner's Guide to the Methods and Theory of Synthesis, to be published by Oxford University Press.

Publications by Jon Kolko (bibliography)

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Anderson, Richard and Kolko, Jon (2008): Interactions: experiences, people, technology. In Interactions, 15 (1) pp. 4-5

Anderson, Richard and Kolko, Jon (2008): On innovation, appropriateness, intervention design. In Interactions, 15 (1) pp. 80-ff

Anderson, Richard and Kolko, Jon (2008): Interactions: bridging communities. In Interactions, 15 (2) pp. 4-5

Anderson, Richard and Kolko, Jon (2008): On logic, research, design synthesis. In Interactions, 15 (2) pp. 80-ff

Anderson, Richard and Kolko, Jon (2008): Interactions: a new renaissance of worlds colliding. In Interactions, 15 (3) p. 5

Anderson, Richard and Kolko, Jon (2008): Clues and solutions. In Interactions, 15 (3) pp. 35-ff

Anderson, Richard and Kolko, Jon (2008): On the experience ecosystem, drama, choreography. In Interactions, 15 (3) pp. 80-ff

Anderson, Richard and Kolko, Jon (2008): Interactions: a quiet call to arms. In Interactions, 15 (4) p. 5

Anderson, Richard and Kolko, Jon (2008): On marketing, sustainability, and pessimism. In Interactions, 15 (4) p. 80

Anderson, Richard and Kolko, Jon (2008): Interactions: we're not in Kansas anymore. In Interactions, 15 (5) p. 5

Anderson, Richard and Kolko, Jon (2008): On addressing wicked problems. In Interactions, 15 (5) p. 80

Anderson, Richard and Kolko, Jon (2008): Interactions: having an impact. In Interactions, 15 (6) p. 5

Dykstra-Erickson, Elizabeth, Arnowitz, Jonathan, Kolko, Jon and Anderson, Richard (2007): Signing on/signing off. In Interactions, 14 (6) pp. 10-11

Kolko, Jon and Lucas, Bill (2006): Design infusion at CHI 2007. In Interactions, 13 (6) p. 11

Tseng, Michael and Kolko, Jon (2005): TRIBA: a cable television retrieval & awareness system. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2005. pp. 1152-1153. Available online

Kolko, Jon (2004): Mixing disciplines in anticipation of convergence: a curriculum for teaching interaction design to industrial designers. In Interactions, 11 (4) pp. 18-23

User-contributed publications

Here is a list of publications that have been submitted by the author himself/herself or a website visitor:

Kolko, Jon: User Driven Brand Design: Establishing a Convergent Brand Experience. In: AIGA's Tweak Magazine. Q4, 2003, Raleigh, NC. p3.

Kolko, Jon: Mixing Disciplines in Anticipation of Convergence: A Curriculum for Teaching Interaction Design to Industrial Designers. In: ACM's Interactions Magazine. Volume 11, Issue 4, July August, 2004.

Kolko, Jon: New Techniques in Industrial Design Education. In: 6th International Conference of the European Academy of Design. March 29-31, 2005, Bremen, Germany.

Tseng, Michael and Jon Kolko: TRIBA, A Cable Television Retrieval & Awareness System. In: CHI 05 Interactivity Session. April 2-7, 2005, Portland, Oregon.

Kolko, Jon: Design as Communication: The Increasing Case for Literacy in Academia. In: Eastman/IDSA National Education Conference. August 21-23, 2005, Old Town Alexandria, VA.

Changes to this page (author)

28 Feb 2010: An editor rejected a request to change information
28 Feb 2010: Updated the picture of Jon Kolko