Hi! I’m Kate. During the day I’m Managing Director for Interface3 and a UX designer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. I spend most of my time thinking about how we can design better technologies, writing about startups and hacking side projects.

Most of my work has been in designing experiences for multitouch interfaces. In particular, interactive tables such as the Microsoft Surface and SMART Tables, plus the iPad. I’m excited about how multitouch can create more natural and intuitive ways of interacting with computers, as well as how they can help us be more awesome. As part of my work at Interface3, we’ve won the RBS Touch Finance Competition, as well as SMART Technologies’ Multitouch Competition. I seriously love what I do and will tell you at very opportunity if you let me.

At night, I play rugby for Watsonians. I play tight-head prop (that’s the one of the right hand side in the front row). I’ve been lucky enough to have represented Scottish Universities and was very humbled in 2009 to be given Player of the Year at Watsonians.

I also started (with Jess, Thomas and Bela) StartupCafe – a blog focused on Edinburgh startup news. Our aim is to build an online place for the tech community. We have weekly events listings, we blog about startups and their founders, and we also have a lot of fun (check out our April Fools joke about our real cafe and startupdating). StartupCafe has been featured on the Guardian Edinburgh blog and the Guardian podcast.

On top of this, I also started CompSoc (Edinburgh Uni Computer Society) back in 2000, Hoppers (women in Informatics) in 2006, and help out at Girl Geeks Scotland.

Contact

You can find me on twitter as @kateho, connect with me on linkedin, or you can email me at kate at interface 3 dot com.