I‘m KAREN McGRANE and I consult on digital strategy

Your company can hire me to identify and solve problems with your content strategy, user experience design, and mobile or multi-platform design. I am a partner in Autogram with Jeff Eaton and Ethan Marcotte, where we focus on the digital strategy required to develop content management and design systems.

  1. The Minimum Viable Lifestyle

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    The Pastry Box Project,

  2. Every project I have ever done

    A while back I went through my hard drive and captured a list of every project I've ever done, spanning the years 1998 – 2018, so twenty years of projects. These are in alphabetical order because I'm a bit fuzzy on the dates. Read more

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    Adaptive: Content, Context, and Controversy

    What’s the difference between responsive and adaptive? While responsive design embraces an ethos of “One Web,” adaptive solutions aim to serve different information based on what we know about the person or the device. When people say they want to go “beyond responsive,” they often mean they want to implement adaptive solutions. In this talk Karen unpacks what people really mean when they talk about adaptive designs or adaptive content. She outlines scenarios in which it makes sense to target information to the device or context—and when it doesn’t. Read more

    Now What? Conference,

  4. Introducing Autogram

    I am delighted to announce that I am starting a new strategic consultancy with Ethan Marcotte and Jeff Eaton called Autogram. Read more

  5. Who experiences code of conduct violations?

    As far as I'm concerned, the heart of what makes information architecture a discipline is the focus on the needs of users as they navigate an information space. Here, I break down the point of view of the grievance procedure for Information Architecture Foundation events. Read more

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