We have a great speaker joining us for our September event, which is going to be an early one this month!
Join us on *Tuesday, September 1st*, when Steve Portigal will be in town to talk about "Understanding Cultural Context". Steve will explore the notion of social norms and share a number of examples of observed cultural behaviors. This will illustrate the power and importance of noticing the cultural context in which design research takes place. *Steve Portigal* is the founder of Portigal Consulting<http://portigalconsulting.com/>, a bite-sized firm that helps organizations to discover and act on new insights about themselves and their customers. In addition to regularly speaking at design and marketing events, Steve has taught Design Research at the California College of Art and the Involution Master Academy. He writes regularly for interactions magazine, Core77 and the Portigal Consulting blog, All This ChittahChattah. Steve is an avid photographer who has a Museum of Foreign Grocery Products in his home. Date: Tuesday, September 1st Time: 6:30-8:30 DePaul University, CDM 243 S. Wabash Room 924 Please RSVP by *Monday, August 31st* at the following link: http://tinyurl.com/m2xe76 We do not currently have food or drink planned - if your company may be interesting in sponsoring, please reply using this email address. See you there! ________________________________________________________________ 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
