Samantha Kolovson
Co-Owner at University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamantha Kolovson is a human-centered design researcher and educator with 11 years of experience blending UX research, video prototyping, and product design to inform practical and speculative technology. Currently co-owner of Cafe Blameless in Seattle, she builds community-focused spaces while lecturing and leading courses at the University of Washington on storytelling, design fiction, and introductory programming. Her academic work—including a PhD in Human-Centered Design and Engineering—centered on sports tracking technologies, coordinating multi-stakeholder video projects and mentoring 20+ students and student-athletes as research partners. As a UX consultant and researcher she has translated qualitative insights into product recommendations for startups and health-tech projects, and she designs ideation sessions that turn concepts into testable interfaces. Comfortable with both hands-on tools like Adobe Premiere and introductory programming instruction, she brings a rare mix of creative production, pedagogy, and user-centered product thinking. Colleagues describe her self-deprecating Github bio as modest—behind it sits a practiced maker who maintains her personal site and applies pragmatic technical skills to both research and community ventures.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Human-Centered Design and Engineering, PhD Human-Centered Design and Engineering at University of WashingtonBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Massachusetts AmherstProgramming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kolovsam/rememberall
Oct 2016 - Jun 2024
Contributions:2 pushes in 7 years 9 months
kolovsam/kolovsam.github.io
Aug 2015 - Jan 2025
Contributions:138 pushes, 1 branch, 24 issues in 9 years 6 months
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