Katie loves to organize— mapping concepts to categories, arranging items into lists, structuring ideas into matrices. Whether you call that information architecture, boundary definition, or just “framing the problem,” Katie looks at it like a jigsaw puzzle.
To organize the bigger picture and generate potential solutions, Katie studies details, re-orients items, and looks for similarities.
Katie has built a diverse portfolio of projects, using human-centered methods to develop a gesture interface for cars, refine medical software for cardiologists, conduct field research with soldiers, build visualization tools for intelligence analysts, and write a case study about complex engineering projects. She has worked across six time zones, fourteen states, two provinces (and counting!) in the last seven years.
Katie holds a BFA in Design and a master’s in human-computer interaction, both from Carnegie Mellon. She joined MAYA after a three-year stint at The MITRE Corporation, a government research and development center in Boston. She is also contributing editor for “Interactions,” an ACM magazine focused on design practitioners.