Katrina Alcorn - Katrina Alcorn leads the user experience discipline for Hot Studio, an award-winning user-centered design firm based in San Francisco.
Since the late 90s she has led information architecture, user research, and content strategy efforts on projects ranging from online magazines to Flash demos to applications for enrolling new health care members. Her work includes projects for InformationWeek, Sun Microsystems, Charles Schwab, Blue Shield of California, Architecture for Humanity, the United Methodist Church, Gap Inc., LeapFrog SchoolHouse, and Adobe.
Before her foray into the Internet, Katrina worked as a freelance writer and editor for several newspapers and magazines in Hawaii and California and as an associate producer for an award-winning national PBS television series. She holds a master's degree in journalism and documentary filmmaking from the University of California, Berkeley.
Renee Anderson - Renee Anderson is the director of user experience for Hot Studio, Inc.
Kevin O'Malley - With an international background in cross-cultural communications and linguistics, Kevin O'Malley applies unique training and coaching skills, as well as partnership building, to the world of corporate speaking and events.
His approach successfully brings disciplines such as deconstruction and semiotics into executive development and face-to-face interactions with targeted audiences.
Building on a background in video, multi-media and event production for clients including Atari, The Gap, Clorox, Hay Consulting, Kingsford Charcoal, Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), Goodwill Industries, and Foote Cone Belding. Kevin works both ends of a speaking event, from creative content and presentation to working directly with conference producers and meeting planners to create optimum on-site experiences.
Educated at Cornell University, Magna Cum Laude with graduate studies at l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
How can nonprofits and other organizations make their web sites more relevant and compelling to the diverse audiences they serve?
Two leading practitioners from the online design world present a people-centered approach to finding big answers with small budgets.
Starting with real people and their needs, Alcorn and Anderson deconstruct the most commonly used research methods considered best practices in the design world, and they demonstrate how insights from this research can lead you to compelling design features online- The Commonwealth Club of California
I produced and moderated this program at the Commonwealth Club - where I'm Vice-Chairman of the Business and Leadership Forum. I would appreciate any comments, insights or links to these programs, as I'm hoping to do more in this series. Please contact me at kevin@techtalkstudio.com Thanks -- and looking forward to hearing from you. -- Kevin O'Malley