IxDF Chicago

Hi IxDF Chicago, let’s meet up and network over coffee! Share UX design insights and resources, discuss UX problems you are facing now, or just chat about anything else. It’s going to be an informal, cozy meet-up with fellow designers!

1. You have any questions about the career change or creating an online portfolio?
2. Struggle to find a job in ongoing interviews?
3. Want to learn more about the design for people with accessibility and the common tools and standards?

During the meet-up, we can share our insights and help each other! I’m sure many of us have questions or are willing to share experience and knowledge. It is also important just to talk and find the understanding and know people have the same experiences in their lives)

Maybe you know local companies that need volunteer help from designers, and we can be involved in it?

Let’s meet, talk and see what opportunities we can get from it!

”It’s time to grow the Chicago Design community, and take a project to work on for social good!”

Location: Intelligentsia Coffee Millennium Park Coffeebar
Address: 53 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60601
Time: 11:30 am -1:00 pm

It is near the Millenium park, so it is a nice place to walk after the meeting or meet with families)))

Hi IxDF Chicago and UXers everywhere who can join us.

We’re going to close out 2022 with a Holiday Hackathon.

Trying to make sense of the enormous number of resources, articles, and tutorials that surfaced this year?

Do you have favorites you really want to share?

Bring your questions and your favorite things to the Holiday Hackathon.

To borrow from Chicago favorite, Oprah.

You get an introduction to Figma tutorial!

You get a great article on web typography!

You get the phrasing you need to push past, “UX is just making things pretty”?!

Everyone gets resources and conversation to craft a path through them!

Bring yourself and links to resources you have tried and think are helpful.

Time: Dec 6, 2022 05:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81894814040

Meeting ID: 818 9481 4040
Passcode: 849711

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Join the chapter Slack:

https://join.slack.com/t/idf-chicago/shared_invite/zt-1knt50xu8-MfmrGn54meDLVa~0rAyH5w

I wish I was there to join the first Meetup, it seems like it was a good talk. The next can be at my place, online or your pick for Cafe. Please let me know in the comments which you would prefer! If it’s a bigger group than 10, we will need to pick a place or meet online.

It’s going to be an informal, cozy meet-up with fellow designers! I also wanted to make this meetup focused on humanitarian issues we are facing globally today and brainstorm technical solutions.

To give you some content I wanted to discuss, perhaps in the next meeting… here are some links to my blog posts where I am writing about some of these to get the conversation started: -

Mini Hackathons for Refugee Kids
HCI Against Human Trafficking
Hackathon Reflection

List of topics I wanted to expand on:

1. Humanity-centered design to solve the world’s most pressing issues and how important it is to collaborate with designers in various professions, from service design, to ux and ui, and management.

2. Organizations or design groups to join to design for positive change and/or inspiration.

3. Areas you like to design for (ex. combating human trafficking, biotech, wildlife, medical, environmental, refugee crisis, etc.) and how do we tackle these issues as UX professionals?

4. Best design for humanity events to attend.

   Please feel free to share yours as well or what has been discussed in the first meeting, so we can continue exploring those as well! Thanks!!