Karen presenting at Carnegie Mellon University

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...

Karen at two events in Seattle

Karen will be in Seattle the week of September 15 to attend Automotive UI, the International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications. If you’re attending the conference, be sure to look for Karen—Karen and her hat always stands...

Karen coming to the Twin Cities

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....

Know You Are Building the Right Thing – Part 1

Contextual Design uses in-depth field research and well-defined processes to develop a design that works for people. Contextual Design is equally useful to invent a game-changing design independent of what has gone before and to design the next version of an existing...

InContext at DUXU 2014

The HCI International conference is an umbrella for several affiliated conferences, including DUXU (Design, User Experience, and Usability). Karen will be co-presenting a paper at DUXU on Cool in Business: Developing a Data-Based Instrument Measuring...

Webinar: The power of small

Join us for a Webinar on April 8   With the spread of mobile devices and the “app” revolution, monolithic applications feel increasingly rigid and difficult to use. Instead of designing one large monolithic app that does everything, we need to start designing...

InContext at HCI International / DUXU 2014

The HCI International conference is an umbrella for several affiliated conferences, including DUXU (Design, User Experience, and Usability). Karen will be co-presenting a paper at DUXU on Cool in Business: Developing a Data-Based Instrument Measuring...

InContext at CHI 2014

When: April 26th – May 1st Where: Toronto, Canada InContext is busy at CHI this year! We’re excited to be on a panel, leading a SIG, presenting a case study, and more. CHI 2014 is the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, the premier international...

InContext News: February 2014

InContext is Creating a Buzz  By Karen Holtzblatt   InContext is generating quite the publicity and making headlines with our new Cool Concepts. From The Wall Street Journal to FORTUNE Magazine, read what the press is saying. Find all these stories in our blog....