Colleen Lynn ::
After several years of print design, Colleen moved to the realm of multimedia. Shortly thereafter, she became the Director of Design at HyperBole Studios. From 1993 to 1995, she led HyperBole's small 2-D design team and helped create four groundbreaking CD-Rom titles. Each title pioneered interactive storytelling and the art of multiple narrative outcomes.

Colleen next established her freelance company, VainNotion, Inc. As the pace of technology picked up, so did her commitments. She divided her time between teaching at the Art Institute of Seattle and designing CD-Rom titles for clients. Subsequently, she began designing smart appliances for the Microsoft Future Home, part of its Consumer Appliance Group. Some of her most distinguished work was accomplished while interacting with this group, whose prototypes provide vision for emerging technologies, and help Microsoft identify business opportunities in the consumer market.

By late 1996, the need for good user interface design had intensified and so had her client list to include companies like Real Networks, Design Intelligence, Onvia and numerous other dotcoms. Undaunted by the fall of the market in 2001, she set out to create a consumer-based product of her own: RuneCast.com. It was a free and subscription-based service targeted at women between the ages of 20-35. At the time of closing her business in 2005, the site had 50,000 registered users and several thousand subscribing members.

On the heels of her commercial endeavor came a WinCE-based consumer device that altered how many Americans make buying decisions at music stores. The personal listening station, found exclusively at FYE outlets, allows an individual to scan any in-store video, CD-Rom and DVD title and sample the artistic material. Fullplay Media, a Seattle software company, contacted Colleen to develop the user interaction design and each graphical screen of the personal listening station. By November 2002, 10,000 units were placed nation-wide in FYE retail establishments.

Since this time she has focused on brand and website design for start-up web businesses. Over the past ten years, Colleen has built a reputation for her innovative approach to user experience and visual design. Current VainNotion clients include: MediaVillage, Onconome, Mod Systems, and other start-up businesses.