by Karen | Jul 26, 2015 | Articles3
Products are produced by using a process – the way people organize themselves to get things done. Whether it is a formal process with a name or just the habits of working that get built up in a culture, nothing is produced without some kind of “way” of doing things....
by Karen | Jul 1, 2015 | Articles1
I’m pleased to say that our Cool Concepts garner attention in the industry. Read the lively discussion between Fast Company author Ryan Bradley and me about what makes technology “cool.” Like many, he started from the assumption that...
by Shelley | Sep 24, 2014 | calendar entry
Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute is one of the world’s leading university HCI programs and Contextual Design has long been part of the curriculum. So as a friend of CMU’s program, we’re especially pleased that Karen has been invited to give a...
by Hugh | Aug 21, 2014 | calendar entry
We’re excited to report that Karen will be in the Minneapolis/St Paul area. On September 29th she’ll be conducting a 1-day workshop sponsored by UXPA Minnesota that covers the Contextual Design techniques that bridge the collection and analysis of user data to design....
by Karen | Dec 1, 2013 | Blog
Do you want to transform your products for the next generation of users and platforms? Our “Cool Project”—a multi-year field research effort—reveals what makes technology products compelling. We now understand why users just can’t stop talking about how their cool...
