Hello fellow Chicagoans,
We're excited to announce our first event of 2008: Designing with the
mobile experience in mind.
Some say 2007 was the year of social media. Will 2008 be the year of mobile
media? Come join us for an interactive discussion--and bring relevant
examples as well as your
Happy New Year to all!
To those in Chicago (or passing by), please join us for our first event next
Wednesday, January 9th (see the details below)! Remember, we need an RSVP so
we can add your name to the security list. We have 41 people attending so
far (networking alert!).
If this month
Tonight the Chicago IxDA gathered at Critical Mass to discuss what it meant
to design for the mobile experience. Many thanks to David Armano, Gabby Hon
and everyone else at Critical Mass for opening your doors to us and for
leading us in tonight's discussion.
If you were unable to attend
you there!
Janna DeVylder
Chicago IxDA
*Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah*
February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA
Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/chicago-ixda-february-meeting-at-roundarch
Thanks to Roundarch for hosting us!
We're just setting up, should get started by 6:45 pm CST.
janna
Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA
Greetings, fellow Chicagoans (and anyone who happens to be passing through
Chicago)!
I am happy to announce our sixth local gathering (is this our half-year
anniversary? I'll stop being a sap.) If you haven't been able to attend,
you should... Every month a different topic is presented, and we
If you're in the Chicago-land area, please join us for another event!
When: Wednesday, November 14th
Time: 6:30 - 8:00pm
Topic: Rich Internet Applications
What is the definition of an RIA, and when is a particular solution
considered one? How are RIAs breaking and redefining users' mental
Hello fellow Chicagoans,
We're excited to announce our first event of 2008: Designing with the
mobile experience in mind.
Some say 2007 was the year of social media. Will 2008 be the year of mobile
media? Come join us for an interactive discussion--and bring relevant
examples as well as your
Hello, fellow Chicagoans,
Spring is in the air (if you look past the snow), so it's time to break out
of the office and bring our good perspectives together!
We're pleased to announce our April event, hosted by the Institute of Design
- IIT.
Christopher Finlay will be leading our topic for the
Hi all,
We have had a great response (70 of you RSVPd!) for our upcoming gathering
tomorrow, looking at how to keep experiences fresh, led by Christopher
Finlay. The amazing thing is that more than 1/3 of you attending are new
names and faces. This is an excellent way to get to know your fellow
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Names must be given to security (for real this time), so last-minute RSVPs
will be a challenge.
Looking forward to seeing you there,
Chicago IxDA
Welcome to the Interaction
(for real this time), so last-minute RSVPs
will be a challenge.
Looking forward to seeing you there,
Chicago IxDA
Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)!
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We're streaming live now, starting between 6:30 - 6:45 CST!
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ixda-event---may-14%2C-2008
If you're getting this after the event, you can always come and see what was
discussed.
janna
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A friendly
Hello fellow Chicagoans (and those of you who happen to be in the area),
Please join us on Wednesday, June 11th for our next gathering!
Topic: Data Visualization - Moving from PowerPoint to RIA
Hosted By: Roundarch
When: Wednesday, June 11th
Time: 6:30 - 8:00 PM
Address: 350 N. LaSalle
This is the week, Chicagoans! Step inside for a cool refreshment and some
great conversation!
If you'd like to join us this Wednesday, please RSVP at the link below today
so we can get the list in tomorrow.
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Hello fellow Chicagoans (and those
Hello fellow Chicagoans,
Please join us on Wednesday, July 9th for our next Chicago IxDA gathering!
This time we're turning the mic over to several members of the local
community to espouse all things interaction design, under the caveat that
they do it within six minutes and 40 seconds each (20
considered for full time
staff or contract employment should forward their resumes to:
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On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Chicago IxDA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hello fellow Chicagoans,
Please join us on Wednesday, July 9th for our next Chicago IxDA
gathering
is about $6
from the Loop.
I've invited you to fill out the form *[Event] Chicago IxDA - August 13th
Happy Hour*. To fill it out, visit:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pKwbS7NpPcWkCmtc_MBO_Rgemail=true
Welcome
how many
people to expect. See you there!
Getting there from the Loop:
Take a short trip on the Madison bus - Route 20 - then get off at Aberdeen
and walk two blocks north to Randolph. A taxi is about $6 from the Loop.
I've invited you to fill out the form [Event] Chicago IxDA - August 13th
Happy
for a topic, let us know - just
respond to this Chicago IxDA address. For those who mentioned some
possibilities last night, we'll be following up with you shortly.
Microsoft is holding another PhizzPop design competition. This was a great
event last year, with companies competing for the title of best
Hello fellow Chicagoans,
Please join us on Wednesday, Sep 10th for our next Chicago IxDA gathering!
Polly Greathouse will be presenting a talk on remote research titled
Cultural Probes. Here is a summary below:
Remote research techniques to empower people to share what really matters,
just
Hello fellow Chicagoans,
Please join us on Wednesday, October 8th for our next Chicago IxDA
gathering!
Frank Gruger, and his colleagues from Orbitz, will be facilitating a
discussion on Sustainable Interaction Design. As interaction designers we
may have felt immune to the call
Happy Halloween, Chicagoans!
Before you switch gears from brainstorming costumes to prepping for
Thanksgiving, take some time to join us for the November IxDA event. In
November Motorola will be hosting us and providing the topic.
*Social to Mobile: Importing big web-based dashboards onto little
Tomorrow night is the November IxDA event in Chicago. We've had an
enthusiastic response!
Due to space constraints we're unable to gather anymore RSVPs. For those who
have already RSVPd, you'll need to give your name at security tomorrow night
to enter. If you missed the RSVP period and would
For our event tonight, Social to Mobile, the webstream will be viewable at
the following address:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ixda-chicago-local-event
If you miss it during the broadcast, you can also visit this location to
view the video at a later date.
Carolyn
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
The December Chicago IxDA event should be a jolly good time. The event will
be on Wednesday, December 17th at 6:30 PM and located at Elephant Castle.
We'll be networking and sharing design war stories over this past year. Come
have a drink, relax and enjoy the friendship of your fellow IxDA-ers
Just sending out a reminder for this week's upcoming Chicago IxDA event...
here's a recap Hope to see you there!
The December Chicago IxDA event should be a jolly good time. The event will
be on Wednesday, December 17th at 6:30 PM and located at Elephant Castle
During the last few months of the presidential campaign, Billy Belchev and
Paul Baker of Webitects traveled to Obama for America offices in swing
states studying the campaign's ground game.
Using design research methods, they recorded screens, mouse movements, and
voices as organizers cut turf,
In less than a week, we'll have our next Chicago IxDA event:
*Campaign learnings of America for make benefit glorious movement of
progress*
Please RSVP by end of day Monday the 12th if you can make it. *This event
will not be recorded*, so if you want to hear about the research and
findings from
Hi everyone,
If you RSVPd Yes to tonight's Chicago event, here are some additional
details on getting to the room:
After checking with security, please come to the AON building's 25th floor
(where the main Thoughtworks entrance is). Once you're through the doors
there will be a staircase to head
once every three months, coordinating the
occasional meeting (helping find people interested in providing a topic or
venue), and actively discussing how we can make the Chicago IxDA a vibrant
professional network. It's a fun way to network with your peers - and looks
great on a resume! If you're
, membership involves:
- attending a planning meeting once every three months,
- coordinating the occasional meeting (helping find people
interested in providing a topic or venue), and
- actively discussing how we can make the Chicago IxDA a vibrant
professional network.
The location:
date
Sad you were stuck in Chicago and unable to attend the Interaction09
conference in Vancouver, British Columbia this past February?
Weep no more for the Chicago chapter is holding a conference recap on
March 18, 2009 at the IIT Institute of Design.
There will be a panel of local Chicagoan
REMINDER.
Please RSVP by 12 noon, March 18th, 2009 (that's tomorrow!) if you
would like to attend the March event, IxDA Chicago's review and redux
of February's Interaction'09 conference.
There will be a panel of local Chicagoan attendees ready to share
their experiences and perspective of the
On Wednesday, April 15th, we'll have our next Chicago IxDA meeting a review
of Manifest Digital's entry in the PhizzPop design challenge held at SXSW:
to design a digital experience that encourages a community to adopt a
sustainable lifestyle. We'll also be discussing the process in generating
, there are a lot of them, and they're
fast!
Hope to see you in a couple of days,
Carolyn
-- Forwarded message --
On Wednesday, April 15th, we'll have our next Chicago IxDA meeting a review
of Manifest Digital's entry in the PhizzPop design challenge held at SXSW:
to design a digital
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
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, http://inklingmarkets.com/ and
Amanda Haschke, who helped produce Club BK http://clubbk.com/. The
Chicago IxDA - June Event - UX Agile, Together at Last
On Wednesday, June 10th, 2009, IxDA Chicago along with ThoughtWorks
Inc. are hosting a panel discussion on the success stories and the
hurdles traversed in integrating User Experience Design witih the
Agile Software Develpoment process
A quick reminder about Wednesday's event in Chicago. It is approaching
quickly. Sign up soon.
-
Would you like to learn about how Agile development methods mesh with
Interaction Design?
Hoping to learn what this Agile Thing is and could it work for you?
The panel discussion is set.
At
For those unable to attend tonight UX Agile panel in Chicago, visit
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ixda-chicago-local-event.
We're scheduled to begin at 6:30 PM CDT.
Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)!
To post to
Our July event for Chicago IxDA is coming up on Wednesday! Don't
forget to RSVP by end of the day tomorrow (Tuesday the 14th) by
visiting our form here:
http://tinyurl.com/mk36bx
Here are those details:
Erik Klimczak of Clarity Consulting will be discussing rapid prototyping.
The need
We're sending out double-duty email here - August's event, and a
(delayed) recap of our last event on Rapid Prototyping.
AUGUST Happy Hour---
Please join us on Wednesday, August 12th for our next Chicago IxDA gathering!
Chris Bernard of Microsoft will be hosting the happy hour at the Aon
Center
, August 12th for our next Chicago IxDA
gathering!
Chris Bernard of Microsoft will be hosting the happy hour at the Aon
Center. There will also be a demo available for Microsoft Sketchflow,
the interaction design tool that's part of the Expression Blend suite
(see our recap below for more information
AUGUST SOCIALl--- NOTE TIME VENUE CHANGE
Please join us on Wednesday, August 12th for our next Chicago IxDA gathering!
Chris Bernard of Microsoft will be hosting the happy hour at the Park
Grill. Join us for people watching, great discussion, and maybe a few
surprises from Microsoft.
Chris has
Sorry for the repeat everyone - the RSVP form for tomorrow's Chicago
event can be seen here:
http://tinyurl.com/m2zpd5
AUGUST SOCIAL --- NOTE TIME VENUE CHANGE
Please join us on Wednesday, August 12th for our next Chicago IxDA gathering!
Chris Bernard of Microsoft will be hosting
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
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
Next week is our September event for the Chicago IxDA.
Yes, it's early this month - and on a Tuesday. Why? Because Steve Portigal
is in town, and he's just too good to miss!
See details below and RSVP by *Monday, August 31st* at the following link:
http://tinyurl.com/m2xe76
Join us on *Tuesday
One last reminder about our event tonight - we don't have food and drink
planned, so if you're the hungry type please grab a bite before the event.
Steve and I (Carolyn) will be at Exchequer across the street at around 5pm.
I'll be taking the RSVP form down around noon today:
with information on what you'd like to do
or say - and thanks for supporting the Chicago IxDA!
*JOB POSTING*
Sr. Staff User Interface Designer
Motorola, Inc. (Schaumburg, IL)
Motorola's Applied Research Technology Center (ARTC) is the corporate
technology research organization serving all of Motorola’s
*NOTE:* The Monday night session is full.* If you registered, please make
every effort to attend.*
Seats are still available for the Tuesday session. Sign up here:
http://tinyurl.com/nn2rhr
On October 19th and 20th Chris Bernard from Microsoft will be giving
in-depth lab-based instructional
*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
On Wednesday November 18 at 6PM, Andrew Daniel, the Director of User
Experience Creative for Sears Online Business will be taking the audience
for a journey, discussing the impacts and tribulations of managing change
across multiple departments and online channels in a talk titled: Experience
is
A reminder about this week's Chicago event event:
- - - - - - - -
Sears – the $50 billion startup. And how UX leads the way.
Get answers to the $50 billion question: How do you change a
multi-billion dollar corporation into a multi-billion dollar startup?
The UXSears team is hosting the Nov. 18
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
Reminder of our upcoming Chicago December N+AS Party!
Time: December 9, 2009 from 6pm to 8pm
Location: gravitytank
Street: 114 W Illinois St., Floor 3
City/Town: Chicago
Website or Map: http://www.gravitytank.com/
ABOUT THE EVENT
We have a fun evening planned for our December Networking and App.
Come to IDEO Chicago's new downtown location to learn more about their
unique user-centered design process. The IDEO design community will
share a few recent projects that intersect the overlap of physical and
digital interaction. The IDEO design community will also show and tell
some current
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
Couldn't make it to INTERACTION 10, the annual IxDA conference in Savannah
this year? Come hear a recap of the speakers, events and learnings from IxDA
Chicago members that attended.
Read more about the speakers and workshops here:
http://interaction.ixda.org/program/
Light food and drinks
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