On April 19th, comm165 welcomes Karen Donoghue to speak about how she uses visual communication in her practice as a mobile experience designer. She is an entrepreneur, teacher, and friend of mine who invents and prototypes using visual communication. Read her bio and come to class to learn about her work. You’ll find visual idioms that we have discussed in this class: Venn diagrams, sketch explanations, comic storyboards, thumbnails. Hear her story as she discusses her current project and reviews work from her career journey. Meet and ask questions you may wonder about being an artist/researcher/entrepreneur operating her own research agenda, handling PR, and business development.
Date: 4/19/21 from 6-6:30 PM. Watch the video here:
BIOGRAPHY:
Karen Donoghue runs her own user experience design practice called HumanLogic. She also releases her own mobile products including Local Haze, an air quality monitoring application for iPhone.She started her career as a software engineer in Boston working on pen-based computing. After completing a MS at the MIT Media Lab became a designer at a special effects studio in Hollywood. She also started a consumer software company and has worked as a designer at Motorola, Microsoft and SavaJe.
Karen’s client practice at HumanLogic focuses on enterprise product design for Enterprise IT, cyber security and device management. Karen’s clients include Google, VMware, T-Mobile, SecurityScorecard, Imprivata and many startups in the US and abroad. Karen is also an Advisor to Turivius (Sao Paolo, Brazil), SecurityScorecard (NYC) and recently served for one year as an External Advisor to the Tufts University Department of Computer Science.
Connect with her on LinkedIn, Medium, Twitter, Youtube and Instagram.