Let's face it: The world is a pretty complicated place. As designers, we play an increasingly important role in how that complicated world is shaped, understood, and experienced by millions of individuals every day. The software interfaces, web sites, physical products, and intangible services we create have a huge impact on the way people live their lives. How does this prepare us to address the profound issues humanity is facing?
IxDA Boston and Roundarch <http://www.roundarch.com/> are proud to welcome distinguished interaction designer and former CMU and IIT professor Marc Rettig as the first half of a two-part event addressing these issues and more. In the August event, Marc will talk about his experience in changing the way he and his firm define the success of their work: from “ship something people like,” to “establish a measurable improvement in quality of life.” This means applying research and design methods to the social contexts of daily life, and to the social contexts in which products and services are created. It means working with complex, inter-related systems that are larger than the scope of any single organization. It means finding ways to understand the world beyond mechanistic, entity-relationship kinds of approaches. It means attention to human relationships and quality of communication become threads in the project plan, peer to design and development. And it means embarking on a deeply personal journey. Please join us as we explore the ways that designers can create a meaningful, sustainable, positive difference in life. Note that there is a *limit of 40 attendees for this event, you must RSVP* and there is a cover charge of $10. Food will be provided courtesy of Mad*Pow <http://www.madpow.com/> Where: Involution Studios<http://www.involutionstudios.com/#/contact/boston>, Arlington, MA When: 6:30 on the 24th of September 2009 *RSVP*<http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFVBcTBvRExIeko2NGpiQVJyMWdpUmc6MA..> *:* http://tinyurl.com/naswkz* *-- IxDA Boston organisers: Lisa, Harlan, Jesse & Pauric local site: http://www.bostonixda.org Feed: http://boston-ixda.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
