Past Events

  • 2017 May 18

    Design Thinking with OpenIDEO Boston Chapter

    6:00pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    50 Milk Street, 14th Floor, Boston, MA

    The next big thing in design is Circular! New Event Series!  

    Be a part of this challenge by attending our event on May 18th. The challenge will be launching on the 18th across the globe. By attending the event on May 18th, you will be eligible for participation for rest of the series. The series consists of 3 events spread across the next two months. At the end of the event series, you will have designed a small format packaging product through the lens of circular economy and ready to launch it. You will be at the forefront of the changing face of design. 

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  • 2017 May 11

    Inside the Minds of Brilliant Designers

    6:30pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    GA Boston, 125 Summer Street 13th Floor,  Boston, MA 02110

    This inspiring panel event series invites key players in Boston's design community to offer a rare insider’s look at how they work and create. From branding to user experience to city planning, panelists will discuss how they approach projects from a design point of view, how design thinking methods help with problem-solving, and much more. Panel will include:

    • Adam Connor, VP of Organizational Design & Training, Mad*Pow
    • Amy Bucher, Ph.D., Behavior Change Design Director, Mad*Pow
    • James Christie, Director, Experience Design,...
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  • 2017 Apr 20

    Q2 Design Sprint Workshop by Fresh Tilled Soil

    8:30am to 12:00pm

    Location: 

    Fresh Tilled Soil, 480 Pleasant Street, Suite A410, Watertown, MA 02472

    This three hour workshop will change the way you create new features or plan for new products. At this hands-on workshop you’ll learn how to use Design Sprints to identify a problem, brainstorm solutions, and create a prototype to validate or invalidate that proposed solution. Each phase is time boxed to move quickly to create 'aha' moments, fail faster, and rapidly iterate on a solution to reach success. Validating product concepts increases speed to market and lowers chance of failure.

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  • 2017 Mar 22

    2017 IA Summit - Theme: Designing for Humans

    Wed - Sun, Mar 22 to Mar 26, 9:00am - 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Hyatt Regency Vancouver, 655 Burrard Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6C 2R7

    IA, meet AI.

    Information Architects have always recognized the essential role of the user. To be successful, IA must work for people. But as artificial intelligence and machine learning increase in power and prevalence, how can we ensure that technology serves human needs, and not the other way around? This year’s theme, Designing for Humans will bring multi-faceted discussions to the Summit around topics such as human-centered design, ethics in technology, and how to reconcile the presence of artificial intelligence with the real needs and experiences of people.

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  • 2017 Mar 19

    O’Reilly Design Conference

    Sun - Wed, Mar 19 to Mar 22, 10:25am - 10:25am

    Location: 

    Westin St. Francis, 335 Powell Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

    The O’Reilly Design Conference, happening March 19-22, arms designers with the skills, connections, and inspiration to create the products and services of today and tomorrow. It’s a deep-immersion experience where UX designers, product designers, web designers, information architects and many others will dissect case studies, develop new skills, share emerging best practices, and build the future of design. 

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  • 2017 Mar 08

    International Women’s Day: Equality in Tech

    6:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    EF Educational Tours, Two Education Circle, Cambridge, MA 02141

    Around the world, International Women’s Day acts as an important catalyst and vehicle for driving greater change for women and moving closer to gender parity. For IWD 2017, they are asking people to #BeBoldForChange, to help forge a better working world. This event is one of many coordinated screenings happening nationally for International Women’s Day. The screening, a special premiere Fix My App episode featuring a female entrepreneur, will be followed by a panel discussion with local women leaders in the Tech and Design industries. Network, learn about their about their stories,...

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  • 2017 Mar 06

    UX Boot Camp, Bentley University User Experience Center

    Mon - Fri, Mar 6 to Mar 10, 8:00am - 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Bentley University, 175 Forest St., Waltham, MA

    The UX Boot Camp is designed to accommodate a diverse range of participants including designers, UX researchers, usability specialists, business analysts, product managers, market researchers, and software and web developers. The curriculum was carefully designed to reflect emerging market conditions and employer demands.

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  • 2017 Mar 05

    FastForward & Design Your Futures with OpenIDEO Boston Chapter & OpenMDE@Harvard

    9:00am to 3:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard University 12 Quincy St, , Cambridge, MA

    Are you starting out in your career? Or are you looking to change careers? Are you looking to add more work-life balance in your life? Is there a particular lifestyle change you would like to make? Design thinking is a great tool to design creative solutions to many challenging problems. Let's combine design thinking with the foresight to design your life and career. Exact address at Harvard is provided to the folks who RSVP.

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  • 2017 Mar 02

    UXPA Boston March Meeting: The Evolution of UX: In-house vs. Consulting

    6:30pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    Isobar, One South Station, Suite 300, Boston, MA 02110

    While working as a UX consultant over the last 8 years, one of the biggest changes I have noticed is the evolution of UX capabilities on the client side. Through the 2000’s a majority of our clients had minimal exposure to User Experience as a discipline and looked to us as the sole authority in that domain. Over the years more and more organizations have their own experienced in-house UX teams. As an agency, we often work in conjunction with these teams.

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  • 2017 Mar 02

    UX Workshop: Designing for your Future Self

    6:00pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    Lesley University, University Hall, Room 2-048 1815 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02140

    Join AIGA Boston and Lesley University for a hands-on workshop on Design for User Experience.

    In this fast-paced, hands-on workshop you’ll learn how to employ UX Research and Design methods to design a positive experience for your future self. Issues of travel, mobility, and wayfinding for adults over age 65 will be discussed. Working in teams, participants will engage in a rapid prototyping process towards creating a potential solution. Outcomes from this workshop will include brainstorming, mapping, conceptualizing and prototyping a click-through interface for mobile.

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