John Kratz
User Experience Designer at California Digital Library
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Kratz is a User Experience Designer in Oakland with 12 years of experience combining rigorous academic research and hands-on product design. He leverages a decade of training in genetics and neurobiology and a PhD in Biological Sciences to tackle complex information architectures for scholarly publishing and research data platforms. At the California Digital Library he led redesigns for CDLib.org, eScholarship, DMPTool and Dash/Dryad—pairing user research (interviews, card-sorts, tree tests) with analytics-driven experiments to produce actionable improvements. Comfortable with both low- and high-fidelity prototypes, he has coordinated cross-functional teams of front- and back-end developers as well as visual designers to ship scalable, responsive components used across universities worldwide. His blend of scientific rigor, visual art training (BFA/photography), and C/C++ programming study gives him an uncommon ability to translate technical research workflows into intuitive, tested user experiences.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Biology, Art and Art History, Bachelor’s Degree, Biology, Art and Art History at Rice UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biological Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biological Sciences at Columbia University in the City of New YorkCertificate, C/C++ Programming, Certificate, C/C++ Programming at UCSD Extension
Github Skills (7)
doi6
metadata4
json-ld4
science4
schema3
rdf3
json2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
JEK-III/DataPubSurvey
Apr 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:154 commits in 10 months
codemeta/codemeta
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Minimal metadata schemas for science software and code, in JSON-LD
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
doijson-ldsciencescience-softwaremetadata
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