blurb:
My name is Kevin McDonald and I live in Austin, Texas. My chosen profession
is a field called Human Computer Interaction - which is a fancy way
of saying that I strive to make technology easier for average people. |
for your viewing pleasure:
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research interests:
contextual design, ethnography, design cognition, information visualization
and aesthetics |
long-term plans:
Alright, a last minute distraction surfaced. Instead of enrolling
in the Computer Science Ph.D. program at Georgia Tech come August,
I am staying here in Austin. After some soul-searching (blah, blah,
blah), I decided to stay and work at .
Ribbit. |
acknowledgments:
I'd like thank the following blogs (and their owners) for both design
inspiration and borrowed html code/style sheets:
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I hope they don't mind my pilfering too much. |
contact information:
2100 Payne Avenue
Austin Texas 78757
512.698.6471 (cell)
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SELECTED WORK SAMPLES 1999
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trilogy
During this period, I became an
expert in the usability of configuration software, including
a deployment at Nokia. I also evaluated Trilogy's now defunct
e-commerce websites, including carOrder, applianceOrder and
collegeHire.
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georgia tech
I completed a comparative evaluation
of two visualization apps developed by a CS faculty member.
I also observed the strategies users developed to complete
tasks. Those observations formed the more qualitative sections
of the final report.
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