Kathryn Marinaro

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Bio

Kathryn McElroy is an award-winning Creative Director at argodesign, a design and innovation agency in Austin, TX, where she envisions the future and develops products and strategies for a wide variety of clients. She is the author of Prototyping for Designers (O’Reilly) and has employed user-centered methodologies to create and iterate on impactful experiences in health wearables, AI interaction patterns, AI image recognition and training interfaces, and cloud development tools, while working on world-class design teams like IBM Watson Visioneering and IBM Mobile Innovation Lab. Kathryn has gained recognition as one of Austin’s Top 50 Female UX Designers and as part of the Advisory Board for the inaugural Austin Design Week. She’s been featured in articles in Fast Company, Time Out New York, Architect Magazine, ArtInfo, Make Magazine, and the Visual Arts Journal. Kathryn passionately teaches about the value of prototyping and testing assumptions throughout the design process, for both screen-based and electronic products. She loves introducing UXers to electronics as a prototyping tool, and her favorite part of this workshop is the delightful surprise a participant feels when she completes her first circuit.