Karen McGrane

Current

• Faculty Member, MFA Program in Interaction Design at School of Visual Arts
• Senior Partner at Bond Art + Science

Past

• VP and National Lead, User Experience at Avenue A | Razorfish

Education

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• University of Minnesota
• Gallaudet University

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Websites

• My Company
• Company Research
• My Blog

Karen McGrane’s Summary

I am a senior partner at Bond Art + Science, a web consultancy, and formerly VP and National Lead for User Experience at Avenue A/Razorfish. I work to evangelize the user-centered design process by providing information architecture consulting services to clients, conducting user research and usability tests, and mentoring a talented and diverse staff of user experience designers. I'm a specialist in working with publishing clients to help extend their brands and generate advertising revenue online, Clients have included The New York Times, Fast Company, The Atlantic, Encyclopedia Britannica, The Disney Internet Group, and Condé Nast.

Karen McGrane’s Specialties:

Experience Design, Design Strategy and Planning, Information Architecture, Persona Development, Interaction Design, Content Strategy, Ethnographic User Research, Usability Testing, Heuristic Evaluations, Requirements Gathering, Workshop Facilitation, Prototyping

Karen McGrane’s Experience

• Faculty Member, MFA Program in Interaction Design

  School of Visual Arts

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  2009 — Present (less than a year)

• Senior Partner

  Bond Art + Science

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Design industry)

  September 2006 — Present (2 years 11 months)

• VP and National Lead, User Experience

  Avenue A | Razorfish

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; AQNT; Internet industry)

  January 1998 — September 2006 (8 years 9 months)

Karen McGrane’s Education

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  M.S. , Human Computer Interaction, Technical Communciation, Rhetoric , August 1995 — December 1997

• University of Minnesota

  B.A. , American Studies, Philosophy , September 1989 — June 1993

• Gallaudet University

  Summer Intensive , Sign Language , 1991 — 1991

Additional Information

Karen McGrane’s Websites:

• My Company
• Company Research
• My Blog

Karen McGrane’s Groups:

•    User Experience Network
•    Interaction Design Association
•    Rensselaer Alumni Association (RPI)
•    Information Architecture Institute (IAI)
•    User Experience
•    AvenueA-Razorfish Alumni
•    Design Research
•    Razorfish USA Alumni
•    Customer Experience Management Professionals
•    Content Strategy

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