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Jon Kolko
Jon Kolko
Born	1978 (age 45–46) Rochester, NY
Occupation	Designer and Author
Language	English
Nationality	American
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	Carnegie Mellon University
Genre	Non-fiction
Subject	Design
Notable works	Creative Clarity; How I Teach; Well-Designed; Exposing the Magic of Design; Wicked Problems; Thoughts on Interaction Design;
Spouse	Jess Kolko
Website
Official website

Jon Kolko is the founder of Austin Center for Design, a progressive educational institution teaching interaction design and social entrepreneurship.^[1]^[2] He was also a partner at Modernist Studio, and is now a partner at Narrative.

Kolko has held the positions of Vice President of Design at Blackboard and at MyEdu; Executive Director of Design Strategy at Thinktiv, a startup 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] Kolko 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]

Kolko is the author of the following books:

Thoughts on Interaction Design (Brown Bear Press, 2007; Morgan Kaufmann, 2011)
Exposing the Magic of Design: A Practitioner's Guide to the Methods and Theory of Synthesis (Oxford University Press, 2011)
Wicked Problems: Problems Worth Solving (Austin Center for Design, 2012)
Well Designed: How to Use Empathy to Create Products People Love (Harvard Business Review Press, 2014)
How I Teach (Brown Bear Press, 2017)
Creative Clarity: A Practical Guide For Bringing Creative Thinking Into Your Company (Brown Bear Press, 2017)

References[edit]

^ "Austin Center for Design: Change Observer: Design Observer". changeobserver.designobserver.com. Archived from the original on 22 May 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2022.

^ Kolko, Jon (2004). "New techniques in industrial design education" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-25. Retrieved 2011-10-23.