Author: Jon Kolko
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.
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Anderson, Richard, Kolko, Jon (2010): Interactions: information, physicality, co-ownership, and culture. In Interactions, 17 (1) pp. 5. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1649475.1649476
Anderson, Richard, Kolko, Jon (2010): On designers as catalytic agents. In Interactions, 17 (1) pp. 80. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1649475.1649495
Anderson, Richard, Kolko, Jon (2010): exploring aspects of design thinking. In Interactions, 17 (2) pp. 5. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1699775.1699776
Kolko, Jon, Anderson, Richard (2010): Interactions. In Interactions, 17 (2) pp. 80-ff. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1699775.1699794
Anderson, Richard, Kolko, Jon (2010): Business, culture, and society. In Interactions, 17 (3) pp. 5. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1744161.1744162
Kolko, Jon (2010): On language potential. In Interactions, 17 (3) pp. 88. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1744161.1744181
Anderson, Richard, Kolko, Jon (2010): Subtlety, change. In Interactions, 17 (4) pp. 5. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1806491.1806492
Kolko, Jon (2010): On education. In Interactions, 17 (4) pp. 72-ff. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1806491.1806509
Anderson, Richard, Kolko, Jon (2010): Interactions: authenticity, complexity, design. In Interactions, 17 (5) pp. 5. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1836216.1836217
Kolko, Jon (2010): On academic knowledge production. In Interactions, 17 (5) pp. 80. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1836216.1836237
Schoenholz, Matt, Kolko, Jon (2009): Designing in the face of change: the elusive push toward emotionally resonate experiences. In New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 15 (2) pp. 211-220. https://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/13614560903204646
Anderson, Richard, Kolko, Jon (2009): Interactions: time for some change. In Interactions, 16 (1) pp. 5. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1456202.1456203
Anderson, Richard, Kolko, Jon (2009): On marketing, words. In Interactions, 16 (1) pp. 80. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1456202.1456222
Anderson, Richard, Kolko, Jon (2009): Interactions: trust, collaboration, and empathy. In Interactions, 16 (2) pp. 5. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1487632.1487633
Anderson, Richard, Kolko, Jon (2009): On the relevance of theory to practitioners. In Interactions, 16 (2) pp. 80. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1487632.1487651
Anderson, Richard, Kolko, Jon (2009): Interactions: the need to consider the lasting human consequences of our work. In Interactions, 16 (3) pp. 5. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1516016.1516017
Anderson, Richard, Kolko, Jon (2009): On changing the world while paying the bills. In Interactions, 16 (3) pp. 72. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1516016.1516033
Anderson, Richard, Kolko, Jon (2009): Interactions: time, culture, and behavior. In Interactions, 16 (4) pp. 5. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1551986.1551987
Kolko, Jon (2009): On hopelessness and hope. In Interactions, 16 (4) pp. 80. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1551986.1552003
Anderson, Richard, Kolko, Jon (2009): Interactions: looking broadly to the future. In Interactions, 16 (5) pp. 5. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1572626.1572627
Kolko, Jon (2009): On creation consumption. In Interactions, 16 (5) pp. 80. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1572626.1572644
Anderson, Richard, Kolko, Jon (2009): Interactions: social, authentic, and interdisciplinary. In Interactions, 16 (6) pp. 5. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1620693.1620694
Kolko, Jon (2009): The authenticity problem. In Interactions, 16 (6) pp. 80. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1620693.1620713
Anderson, Richard, Kolko, Jon (2008): Interactions: experiences, people, technology. In Interactions, 15 (1) pp. 4-5. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1330526.1330528
Anderson, Richard, Kolko, Jon (2008): On innovation, appropriateness, intervention design. In Interactions, 15 (1) pp. 80-ff. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1330526.1330553
Anderson, Richard, Kolko, Jon (2008): Interactions: bridging communities. In Interactions, 15 (2) pp. 4-5. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1340961.1340962
Anderson, Richard, Kolko, Jon (2008): On logic, research, design synthesis. In Interactions, 15 (2) pp. 80-ff. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1340961.1340983
Anderson, Richard, Kolko, Jon (2008): Interactions: a new renaissance of worlds colliding. In Interactions, 15 (3) pp. 5. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1353782.1353783
Anderson, Richard, Kolko, Jon (2008): Clues and solutions. In Interactions, 15 (3) pp. 35-ff. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1353782.1353790
Anderson, Richard, Kolko, Jon (2008): On the experience ecosystem, drama, choreography. In Interactions, 15 (3) pp. 80-ff. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1353782.1353833
Anderson, Richard, Kolko, Jon (2008): Interactions: a quiet call to arms. In Interactions, 15 (4) pp. 5. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1374489.1374490
Anderson, Richard, Kolko, Jon (2008): On marketing, sustainability, and pessimism. In Interactions, 15 (4) pp. 80. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1374489.1374510
Anderson, Richard, Kolko, Jon (2008): Interactions: we\'re not in Kansas anymore. In Interactions, 15 (5) pp. 5. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1390085.1390086
Anderson, Richard, Kolko, Jon (2008): On addressing wicked problems. In Interactions, 15 (5) pp. 80. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1390085.1390103
Anderson, Richard, Kolko, Jon (2008): Interactions: having an impact. In Interactions, 15 (6) pp. 5. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1409040.1409041
Dykstra-Erickson, Elizabeth, Arnowitz, Jonathan, Kolko, Jon, Anderson, Richard (2007): Signing on/signing off. In Interactions, 14 (6) pp. 10-11. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1300655.1300660
Kolko, Jon, Lucas, Bill (2006): Design infusion at CHI 2007. In Interactions, 13 (6) pp. 11.
Kolko, Jon (2004): Mixing disciplines in anticipation of convergence: a curriculum for teaching interaction d. In Interactions, 11 (4) pp. 18-23. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1005261.1005272
Tseng, Michael, 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. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1056808.1056858
McCrickard, D. Scott, Atwood, Michael E., Curtis, Gayle, Harrison, Steve, Kolko, Jon, Stolterman, Erik A., Wahid, Shahtab (2010): Artifacts in design: representation, ideation, and process. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2010 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2010, . pp. 4445-4448. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1753846.1754170