Jon Kolko

Jon Kolko is the founder of Austin Center for Design, a progressive educational institution teaching interaction design and social entrepreneurship. He is also a partner at Modernist Studio.

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

Kolko is the author of the following books:

• Thoughts on Interaction Design, published by Morgan Kaufmann
• Exposing the Magic of Design: A Practitioner's Guide to the Methods and Theory of Synthesis, published by Oxford University Press
• Wicked Problems: Problems Worth Solving, published by Austin Center for Design
• Well Designed: How to Use Empathy to Create Products People Love, published by Harvard Business Review Press
• How I Teach, published by Austin Center for Design
• Creative Clarity, published by Brown Bear Press