Hi! My name is Brian Kinnee.

My pronouns are they/he.

I am a Design Researcher and Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Washington’s department of Human Centered Design and Engineering.

My doctoral research is co-advised by Dr. Daniela K. Rosner (UW HCDE) and Dr. Audrey Desjardins (UW Design).

I am also a member of the Tactile and Tactical Design Lab (TAT Lab).


My Approach

I leverage interaction design research methods to investigate and design more diverse, equitable, and inclusive relationships between people, machine learning technologies, and algorithmic systems.

Skills

Design Research

First-Person Research

Ethnographic Methods

Technology Probes

Design Inquiry

Interviewing

Co-Design

Adobe Creative Suite

Interaction Design

Technical Communications

Prototyping

Empirical Field Observation