The McKit
The McKit is a dynamic set of materials that grew out of a collaboration between ethnographers and designers at Google to tackle the challenge of innovating multi-device experiences.
It supports designers to understand how users dynamically adapt multiple devices to real-world tasks and environments.
Try it! Share your comments with us at mckit@googlegroups.com.
Research Paper
This webpage hosts supplementary materials for the following paper:
Katie O’Leary, Tao Dong, Julia Katherine Haines, Michael Gilbert,, Elizabeth F. Churchill, Jeffrey Nichols. 2016. The Moving Context Kit: Designing for Context Shifts in Multi-Device Experiences. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3064663.3064768
Hint Cards
Print your own McKit "hint" cards using this PDF. We recommend you print them on cover stock paper.
Worksheets and Scenarios
McKitWorksheets.pdfContact Us
If you have any questions or comments about the McKit, please email mckit@googlegroups.com. Thank you!