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January 01 2010
Abductive Thinking and Sensemaking: The Drivers of Design Synthesis
Jon Kolko
Jon Kolko
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).
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Jon Kolko
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).
Online Issn: 1531-4790
Print Issn: 0747-9360
© 2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2009
Design Issues (2010) 26 (1): 15–28.
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Jon Kolko; Abductive Thinking and Sensemaking: The Drivers of Design Synthesis. Design Issues 2010; 26 (1): 15–28. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/desi.2010.26.1.15
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