[IxDA Discuss] [ EVENT RECAP ] IxDA NYC Table-4-20 w/ Special Guests (Whitney Hess and Karen McGrane) on Feb 18

We'd like to thank everyone who came out for our February 18 “Table-4-20” IxDA NYC event. A special thanks to industry leaders Whitney Hess and Karen McGrane who attended as our special guests. For two hours, the attendees shared casual conversation and New York pizza. The atmosphere was very re

[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT RECAP] i...@ideo : Embracing the Physical | Digital Divide

We had a record-breaking turnout (140 people!) last Wednesday at IDEO Chicago, host of our January event. The theme, *Embracing the Physical | Digital Divide* spoke to IDEO and many design companies approach and considerations when designing experiences that encompass both physical and digital inte

[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT Recap] - Chicago - UXsears, multichannel changes in a large organization

It was a big night; easily the most attended event to date. There wasn't even any food remaining at the conclusion of the event. Andrew Daniel's presentation was compendious and informative. UXsears has encountered and tackled significant challenges in the reformation of an iconic American retaile

[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT RECAP] Chicago IxDA October Event

*OCTOBER EVENT* *RECAP* For our October event Chris Bernard from Microsoft gave an in-depthlab-based instructional session on SketchFlow in Expression Blend at the Microsoft office in the Aon center. We had near capacity and over-capacity turnouts for the two nights! Chris ended each session with

[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT RECAP] Chicago IxDA September Event

*SEPTEMBER EVENT* *RECAP* For our September event, we had guest speaker Steve Portigal in from California to talk about cultural context. Steve showed many examples of different cultural expectations via some of the great photographs he's taken during his travels. He also explored the reactions pe

[IxDA Discuss] [Event Recap] Summer Social - August 12th

On Wednesday, Aug 12th, we met up at the Park Grill for drinks, conversation, and bar-side prototyping! Thanks everybody for coming out and making this a fun annual tradition. We saw a lot of old friends and some new (to Chicago, at least) faces. *THANKS* We'd like to thank Chris Bernard

[IxDA Discuss] [Event Recap] Chicago IxDA – Not Your Usual Web Sites – May 13th

Thanks everybody for a great, lively meeting. On Wednesday, May 13th, about 50 people met at Designkitchen in the West Loop to hear presentations from Adam Siegel, co-founder of Inkling Markets, and Amanda Haschke, who helped produce Club BK . The

[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT RECAP] IxDA NYC: Cindy Chastain on "Experience Themes"

We'd like to thank everyone who came out on Tuesday evening for Cindy Chastain's excellent talk on using the cinematic concept of "theme" to produce better interaction design. Her talk resulted in many great conversations, some of which lasted well into the night over dinner. Kudos and much appreci

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [Event] Recap: IxDA New York's April Event at Liquidnet

Peter, No, thank *you* and everyone involved in hosting the event. I was very fortunate to be able to watch the event via the live stream through the UX Workshop and enjoyed it incredibly. I look forward to the next event with a great deal of interest (Cindy's presentation at IA Summit was one of

[IxDA Discuss] [Event] Recap: IxDA New York's April Event at Liquidnet

Thanks to everyone who came out last Wednesday for Kim Goodwin's talk on designing a unified user experience. It was nice to get a better understanding of how Cooper Design approaches project work and their design philosophy. A special shout-out to Kim for taking time out of her busy schedule to sp

[IxDA Discuss] [Event Recap] Chicago IxDA - Encouraging sustainability through online community

Apologies for the late recap! Last Wednesday we had our April event at Manifest Digital, which was a panel format with the PhizzPop Challenge team discussing the process they went through to meet the challenge of designing experiences to encourage sustainable living in the city of Austin. The solu

[IxDA Discuss] [Event] Recap: IxDA Pittsburgh April Event at the ETC

On Wednesday, April 1st, IxDA Pittsburgh was hosted by CMU's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC). Betsy McIver, a second year masters student, met us in the lobby and introduced us to Quasi, a conversational robot who tried to convince us that he was a little boy. Quasi was the result of

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [EVENT RECAP] Thank you to all who attended last night's Interaction %u201909 recap presented by IxDA Los Angeles, RAPP, and Artisan Creative

Great to meet all these folks who have the same kind of crazy as I do. Not graphic designer crazy, not programmer crazy, not industrial designer crazy, not game designer crazy. IxDc: Interaction Designer Crazy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the ne

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [EVENT RECAP] Thank you to al l who attended last night's Interaction ’09 r ecap presented by IxDA Los Angeles, RAPP, and Artisan Creative

SORRY, that wasn't meant for the list ... On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Nasir Barday wrote: > BTW it's spelled "Nasir," tho I may name my first kid "Nazir" as a > cruel prank ;-). > > - Nasir > > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Los Angeles IxDA > wrote: >> Hi Everyone, >> >> Last night IxD

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [EVENT RECAP] Thank you to al l who attended last night's Interaction ’09 r ecap presented by IxDA Los Angeles, RAPP, and Artisan Creative

BTW it's spelled "Nasir," tho I may name my first kid "Nazir" as a cruel prank ;-). - Nasir On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Los Angeles IxDA wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Last night IxDA Los Angeles held a recap of Interaction ‘09 and it was > a lot of fun and information for our local community.

[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT RECAP] Thank you to al l who attended last night's Interaction ’09 r ecap presented by IxDA Los Angeles, RAPP, and Artisan Creative

Hi Everyone, Last night IxDA Los Angeles held a recap of Interaction ‘09 and it was a lot of fun and information for our local community. We heard from Daniel Yang, Naomi Marcussen, Sarah Mitchel, and Rajesh Sharma who attended and enjoyed fresh popcorn while watching clips from the keynotes and o

[IxDA Discuss] [Event] Recap: IxDA Pittsburgh January Event

The evening of Thursday, January 22nd found the Pittsburgh local group participating in "Back of the Envelope: A Sustainable Restaurant Crawl". The event was organized by the Eco-Design Guild (eDG), an organization that got its start at an IxDA event last Spring. The local chapters of AIGA

[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] Recap: Chicago January Event

Last week we had a nice full event and some exciting announcements about new UX-related events in the works. Here's a recap! THE TOPIC: *Campaign learnings of America for make benefit glorious movement of progress* Zack Exley and Josh Hendler of ThoughtWorks provided an introduction to the topic,

[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] Recap: Chicago IxDA November Event - Social to Mobile

Here's a recap of this week's IxDA Chicago event, "Social to Mobile!" We had a great turnout and a lively conversation, facilitated by Mike Wood of Motorola. In particular, discussions centered around the design challenges of having 4 different groups with vested interest in the mobile application

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] RECAP: IxDA Los Angeles gets help from Almer/Blank to host another fun local event "Designing for Ghouls", Wednesday October 22nd 7-9pm

What a great event! Congrats to all of you! JS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=34821 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association

Re: [IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] RECAP: IxDA Los Angeles gets help from Almer/Blank to host another fun local event "Designing for Ghouls", Wednesday October 22nd 7-9pm

Damn, I look good! Sent from my iPhone On Oct 24, 2008, at 12:00 PM, "Los Angeles IxDA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: This past Wednesday, IxDA Los Angeles partnered with local design shop Almer/Blank (http://www.almerblank.com) to host a fun Halloween party! We invited guests to come dress

[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] RECAP: IxDA Los Angeles gets help from Almer/Blank to host another fun local event "Designing for Ghouls", Wednesday October 22nd 7-9pm

This past Wednesday, IxDA Los Angeles partnered with local design shop Almer/Blank (http://www.almerblank.com) to host a fun Halloween party! We invited guests to come dressed as their favorite website, application or device and we were impressed with some really great costumes. Some were simple

[IxDA Discuss] [Event - Recap] Chicago Happy Hour - August

Last night was a great, low-key happy hour event in Chicago! A big thank you to Chris Bernard at Microsoft for sponsoring the drinks, which were much appreciated by the folks who attended. It was also interesting to see the showcased work for the Olympics, Hard Rock cafe, and several other sites sh

[IxDA Discuss] Event recap

Many thanks to Fit Associates Marc Rettig, Jenna Date, and Dana Pruszynski for hosting and presenting the IXDA Pittsburgh June Meeting on June 18. With approximately 30 attendees, this event had the highest turnout for IxDA Pittsburgh. Jenna and Marc engaged the audience in how nurturing client an