We are partnering with several other meetups (AIGA PDX and Portland Design Thinkers) for June to both allow us to combine energy, meet more local professionals, and celebrate a book release. We believe we have lot in common with other meetups in Portland and will...
Lecture Details Join us for a provocative workshop using Rodney Echols’ BRIGHT framework—a practical methodology for cultivating joy and preventing burnout in design work. Using his experiences and experiments, he transformed his UX expertise into wellness tools that...
Lecture Details How people find information online is undergoing a fundamental shift. While the basic impulse to “reach for answers” remains the same, the sources consumers trust have changed dramatically. Instead of relying solely on traditional search engines,...
Lecture Details Much like the useless “42” answer from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, early LLM experiences were often grammatically correct but fundamentally unhelpful. LLMs can navigate old bureaucratic mazes. They also architect new, shifting...
Impossible Futures and the Ethics of Hopelessness Lecture Details John Lennon’s famous directive to “imagine all the people” is virtually impossible for social movements that require enemies and scapegoats to foster egalitarian visions of the future. Building on...
