Details We will explore the role of information encountering (IE) and serendipity as a potential UX antidote to the threats of AI systems. Learn about the conceptual model of IE (which occurs when one is looking for information relating to one topic and finds information relating to another one), how UX features into the information […]

Details After being let go from her first studio design job, Jena Nesbitt took a chance and attended an event that changed her life. She realized what she was missing in her life by getting out of her field and doing something new. Feeling the lack of community and support offered by design school, she […]

A cultural swirl is an open system with diverse participants that, in its inclusion of different ways of knowing and sensing and solving, seeks out encounters with serendipity. It offers tools and frameworks to cultivate diversity and collaboration within your teams. Drawing from her own research on global digital makers and users, Dr. Maaxa illustrates examples of cultural swirl that have led to groundbreaking innovation.

Corey S. Pressman is an artist, author, and university professor living in the Pacific Northwest. This talk integrates game theory, psychology, philosophy, and art to demonstrate how serendipity may be developed as a skill.

From websites to games to grocery stores, Clifton will show examples of when normal people are erroneously expected to think and act like superhumans, why being a superhuman is more of a curse than a blessing in this field, and provide tips on how to think like the regular humans we should be designing for.

Frishberg focuses on the economic value of serendipity by showing the value of bringing us back into the workplace to drive our organizations' innovation cycles, often through the simplest of interactions: Random Collisions. Based on the 18-month Future of Work taskforce effort he co-led at athenahealth, Frishberg offers several models and frameworks that reinforce the need for human-to-human engagement in a real-world setting.

Understanding anxiety in difficult times and learning how to move forward when you can’t know all the answers. How do you acknowledge your feelings, learn what they have to teach you, but not let them hold you back? Explore the relationship between fear and freedom.