Education
She earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Cognitive psychology at Carnegie Mellon University in 1988.
cognitive psychologist Director of Computation
She earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Cognitive psychology at Carnegie Mellon University in 1988.
She is currently a UX designer at Bloomberg L.P. John has published over 100 technical papers in the area of human–computer interaction. She was elected to the Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal Academy in 2005. She was also a founding Associate Editor for Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Transactions on Computer Human Interaction (TOCHI) and regularly serves on the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGCHI conference program committee.
John was the Director of the Masters in Human Computer Interaction Program in Human–Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University from 1997 to 2009.
John was a Staff Member at International Business Machines Corporation"s Thomas J. Watson Center from December 2010 through December 2014. She returned to her alma mater, The Cooper Union, as the Director of Computation and Innovation in December 2014.
In July 2015 Bonnie joined Bloomberg"s UX design team, to focus primarily on discoverability of new functionality on the Bloomberg Terminal. John researches techniques to improve the design of computer systems with respect to their usefulness and usability.
She has investigated the effectiveness and usability of several Human Computer Interaction techniques (eg, think-aloud usability studies, Cognitive Walkthrough, GOMS) and produced new techniques for bringing usability concerns to the design process (eg, CPM-GOMS and Usability-Supporting Architectural patterns).
Her team at Carnegie Mellon University has developed CogTool, an open-source tool to support Keystroke-Level Model analysis. 2005—Elected to Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal Academy.
She was a founding member of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, a research Staff Member at International Business Machines Corporation"s Thomas J. Watson Center, and the Director of Computation and Innovation at The Cooper Union. A founding member of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, established in 1993 at Carnegie Mellon University, she was previously an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon.