Karen McGrane

Current

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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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

Senior Partner

Bond Art + Science

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

September 2006 — Present (2 years 4 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