Abductive Thinking and Sensemaking: The Drivers of Design Synthesis

Jon Kolko is an Associate Creative Director at frog design, where he manages complicated technological constraints in order to best solve the problems of Fortune 500 clients. Prior to frog, Kolko was a Professor of Interaction and Industrial Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design, where he was instrumental in shaping the Interaction and Industrial Design programs. He is the author of the text Thoughts on Interaction Design, published by Morgan Kaufmann, and the forthcoming text Exposing the Magic of Design: A Practitioner's Guide to the Methods and Theory of Synthesis, to be published by Oxford University Press. Kolko sits on the Board of Directors for the Interaction Design Association (IDA).