Speaker Series Event
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Featured2021 Speaker Series
Your Own Home via Zoom OR, United StatesAs we enter the next decade, CHIFOO will explore the forces that are shaping our current situation with hopes to see the potential for growth for ourselves and our industry, opportunities to help our planet and it’s people heal, and ways to make our online interactions more equitable, more useful, more helpful, and more kind.
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How to Transform Design Processes for Inclusivity
Your Own Home via Zoom OR, United States
January 6, 2021Wendy Johannson
Learn how to apply principles of inclusive design to our teams for more equitable collaboration, and products to ensure the conscious and ethical impact of our work in technology. -
Systems Thinking for Sustainability: Beyond Stuff Towards Resiliency
Your Own Home via Zoom OR, United States
February 3, 2021Rachel Egenhoefer
This talk presents sustainable design from an intersectional problem solving perspective and how you can use systems thinking to create impactful solutions. -
Recognize Exclusion, Design for Inclusion
Your Own Home via Zoom OR, United States
March 3, 2021Bryce Johnson & John Porter
John and Bryce will talk you through how Microsoft's Inclusive Design principles were used to help shape the Xbox Adaptive Controller, and how you can leverage them in your own work to avoid disabling mismatches and create more empowering and inclusive experiences. -
From Virtual Reality to Postcards and Back: A Guided Tour
Your Own Home via Zoom OR, United States
March 24, 2021Bill Buxton
I am going to take you on a guided tour of the history of (largely) 3D viewers and the ability to experience remote places without being there. The stepping stones of my narrative will items selected out of the Buxton – Microsoft collection, spanning the period between 1838 and now. In this case, that uber-tale has to do with the nature of design, technical evolution, the cultural nature of what we do, and perhaps even the difference between technology evolution (a scientific notion) vs progress (an ethical one). -
Remote Meetings That Get Us Back to Work
Your Own Home via Zoom OR, United States
April 7, 2021Kevin Hoffman
In this talk, Kevin will pull extensively from his book Meeting Design and his experience teaching these skills and tackling these problems in conference workshops with companies around the world to show you how to make the most of all your meetings. -
Rich Research at a Distance
Your Own Home via Zoom OR, United States
May 5, 2021Cyd Harrell
Cyd will share her best conversational and technical tips from 14 years of remote research practice, and talk about ways to handle mobile interfaces, difficult topics, internet outages, and more. -
Resilience and Remote Working
Your Own Home via Zoom OR, United States
June 2, 2021Kate Pincott
Visualizing the available number of hours in a week to have solo focus time amidst the constant video calling helped me to get realistic about how much work can actually be achieved by the team, relieve pressure around anxieties of not being perceived as working hard enough, and manage stakeholder expectations on the pace of work. -
Together, Alone: The Lessons and Future of Remote Design Teams
Your Own Home via Zoom OR, United States
July 7, 2021Dylan Wilbanks
Dylan Wilbanks talks about plunging into the world of leading and managing a design team in a remote-only company, the lessons he learned, the horrible mistakes, and what lessons we can take away from our remote experience as we progress towards a post-pandemic working world. -
The Carousel of Progress: Adapting to a Post-Pandemic World
Your Own Home via Zoom OR, United States
September 1, 2021Cheryl Platz
Multimodality expert Cheryl Platz will introduce you to the fundamentals you’ll need to ride the Carousel of Progress to its next transformative stop. -
Making the Switch: a panel discussion
Your Own Home via Zoom OR, United States
October 6, 2021Stacy Taylor and more!
Have you been thinking about transitioning to a career in UX design but aren’t sure how to get your foot in the door? A panel of speakers will discuss current options and share how they got their jobs. -
Designing Safer Spaces
Your Own Home via Zoom OR, United States
Nov. 3, 2021Seda Evis
In times of uncertainty, ambiguity and change, how do we create spaces where we can be our authentic selves? How might we make
opportunities and experiences more accessible? How might we make safer spaces through design?In this talk, we will explore methods of co-design so we can curate our spaces, physical or digital or hybrid. We’ll look at design’s role
in creating safer spaces, how products and services become artifacts of our experiences, and how design can impact communities at scale.