Faculty Profiles
Karen McGrane : Founding Partner, Bond Art + Science
Karen McGrane is founding partner of Bond Art + Science, a web consultancy. She is formerly VP and National Lead for User Experience at Avenue A/Razorfish.
Karen evangelizes 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. A specialist in working with publishing clients to help extend their brands and generate advertising revenue online, her clients have included The New York Times, Fast Company, The Atlantic, Encyclopedia Britannica, and Conde Nast.
Clients Include: The New York Times, Fast Company, The Atlantic, Condé Nast, Nielsen Media Research, Walt Disney Internet Group, New York Public Library, Encyclopedia Britannica, Citibank, JPMorgan Chase, Federal Reserve Bank
Awards and Honors Include: Webby Award, The One Show, Society for Technical Communication
- Education
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BA, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; MS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Professional Experience
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Vice president, national lead for user experience, Avenue A/Razorfish;
- Publications
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Gain: AIGA Journal of Business and Design; Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing Webbed Environments; Technical Communication and the World Wide Web; Inventing a Discipline: Rhetoric Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Young
- On the Web
