Jon Kolko
Design author and educator
Jon Kolko founded the Austin Center for Design and is a partner at Narrative. He has written several books on design, including Well-Designed.
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American Born in Rochester, United States
About Jon Kolko
Jon Kolko founded the Austin Center for Design and is a partner at Narrative. Earlier in his career he was Vice President of Design at Blackboard, and he worked at the global innovation firm frog design as Principal Designer and Associate Creative Director. He also led design strategy as an executive director at Thinktiv, an accelerator for new companies based in Austin, Texas. Kolko previously taught at the Savannah College of Art and Design, in interaction and industrial design. He has also been a Director of the Interaction Design Association and Editor-in-Chief of interactions magazine. He wrote Exposing the Magic of Design, published by Oxford University Press, as well as Thoughts on Interaction Design. Well-Designed, published by Harvard Business Review Press, is his book on using empathy when making products that people love.