Movie Club: Top Generative AI documentaries
Nov
15
5:30 PM17:30

Movie Club: Top Generative AI documentaries

Join IxDA Seattle for Movie Club, where we watch and discuss a design related movie or documentary. This month, we'll dive into the world of Generative AI through two compelling documentaries:

1. Generative AI Is About To Reset Everything
Forbes explores the rise of generative AI and its potential impact on society, the workplace, and democracy. Featuring OpenAI and Stable Diffusion, two notable AI developments, and offering exclusive insights from Bill Gates.

2. It’s Time to Pay Attention to A.I. (ChatGPT and Beyond)
Cold Fusion's documentary focuses on OpenAI's ChatGPT that discover its various applications, from crafting emails to mental health counseling.

We will start our online watch party at 5:30 pm, followed by a discussion session with our panelists at 6:30 pm.

💎 You can watch this documentary for free and at your own convenience prior to the event on YouTube, or you can bring your popcorn and watch it with us.

Agenda

  • 5:30–6:30pm - Online watch party (bring your popcorn!)

  • 6:30–7:10pm - Panel discussion

Discussion Panel

Please take a moment to read through IxDA's Code of Conduct (https://ixda.org/code-of-conduct/) before registering.

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IxDA Mentorship Program 2023
Sep
22
to Dec 4

IxDA Mentorship Program 2023

In Fall 2023, we’re successfully held our 8-week Mentorship Program—The launch of our 8-week Mentorship Program marks the beginning of an innovative pilot initiative aimed at connecting interaction designers at every stage of their careers with experienced design mentors.

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Movie Club: Coded Bias
May
10
5:30 PM17:30

Movie Club: Coded Bias

This eye-opening film explores the hidden biases in algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) systems that affect our daily lives. By watching and discussing "Coded Bias", we will gain a deeper understanding of how algorithms and AI can perpetuate systemic biases and discrimination, and how we can design more ethical and inclusive systems.

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Movie Club: Design for All (by Target)
Apr
5
5:30 PM17:30

Movie Club: Design for All (by Target)

We'll be watching Design for All, a documentary by Target.

Have you ever wondered how an inclusive approach to design affects culture and improves the ways we relate to the built environment, to our communities, and to one another? The inclusive approach to design at Target is part of a much larger story about how the design industry is evolving, creating better solutions that meet the needs of more people, of more abilities.

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Movie Club: Connecting: Trends in UI/UX & interaction design
Nov
9
5:30 PM17:30

Movie Club: Connecting: Trends in UI/UX & interaction design

We'll be watching Connecting, a documentary about the trends and future of UX/UI and interaction design.

Have you ever wondered about the future of interaction/UX design? The 18-minute "Connecting" documentary is an exploration of the future of Interaction Design and User Experience from some of the industry's thought leaders.

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Movie Club: Transformation by Design (by InVision)
Aug
10
5:30 PM17:30

Movie Club: Transformation by Design (by InVision)

The fine line between success and failure for companies is innovation — without digital transformation, organizations can adapt or collapse. In Transformation by Design, a documentary short film by InVision, we traveled from the Hollywood hills to the fields of a family farm to explore how digital transformation is bringing design closer to the center of every business

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Movie Club: Workplace
Mar
9
5:30 PM17:30

Movie Club: Workplace

Join IxDA Seattle for Movie Club, where we watch and discuss a design related movie or documentary. This month, we'll be watching Workplace, directed by Gary Hustwit (Helvetica, Objectified, Urbanized, etc.).

Hundreds of millions of human beings spend billions of hours in offices every day. How can we make them better places for people to work and collaborate? What's the next wave of digital tools to connect the office, the city, and the planet? How has the office evolved over the last 100 years? And do we even need offices anymore?

Workplace was a project for the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale about the past, present, and future of the office. It looks at the thinking, innovation, and experimentation involved in creating the next evolution of what the office could be. Workplace follows the design and construction of the New York headquarters of digital agency R/GA while experimenting with how physical and digital space can better interact. Digital technology has radically changed how and where most of us work, but the physical spaces we work in haven’t kept up with that transformation. 

We will start our online watch party at 5:30 pm, followed by a discussion session with our panelists at 6:35 pm.


💎 You can watch the film for free and at your own convenience prior to the event, or you can bring your popcorn and watch it with us. 

Panel discussion

Moderated by Sayena Majlesein – Sr. product designer at Microsoft with guests:

Adam Riddle

Senior interaction designer at Google with a background in architecture. LinkedIn

Shivani Gill

UX designer with an architecture background who loves to learn and solve challenges. She is a tireless advocate for the customer—enthusiastic about building and iterating on designs to discover what works best for them and distill all my experience into building intuitive digital products. LinkedIn

Keriann Head

Product designer at Pinterest with a background in landscape architecture. LinkedIn

Nitisha Joshi

UX designer based in Seattle with a background in product design and architectural design. She is currently a UX designer at Fresh Consulting. LinkedIn

Please take a moment to read through IxDA's Code of Conduct (https://ixda.org/code-of-conduct/) before registering.

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Interaction 22: Design during perilous times v. 22
Mar
1
to Mar 4

Interaction 22: Design during perilous times v. 22

Attend the IxDA global conference 4 full days of inspiration, intrigue, and inquiry.

Interaction Week  2022 - One year on, what have we learned?

We are interested in the state of our practice and of the world around us:

  • We are increasingly divided, disoriented and exploitable

  • Privacy, trust, and truthfulness are in peril

  • Societal inequalities have been laid bare

  • Climate disruptions are escalating

  • Dark patterns are rampant — often by design.

Today, as we look beyond the immediate perils of the pandemic, there is space for new conversations. We see evidence that:

  • Resilient communities embrace ambiguity;

  • We must redesign systems and structures based on the new essentials; and

  • In response to the fragility revealed around us, the best leaders take care of the team and themselves.

These are the stories that are grounded in the last year and look beyond to imagine how action can create change.

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Movie Club: Design Disruptors
Feb
2
5:30 PM17:30

Movie Club: Design Disruptors

IxDA Movie Club present Design Disruptors

Join IxDA Seattle for our inaugural Movie Club event to watch and discuss Design Disruptors, featuring special guest Aubrey Lange.


The future of business is being written by companies and products that shake billion-dollar industries. In design disruptors, we enter the world of 15+ industry-toppling companies, valued at more than $1 trillion dollars combined, with one unifying secret advantage: the transformative power of design.

Design disruptors (made by InVision) reveals a never-before-seen perspective on the design approaches of these companies and how they are overtaking billion-dollar industries through design.

Aubrey Lange is a Sr. product designer at Microsoft. As a Seattle native, visual designer, and occasional doodler, she has done just about every design job from art direction to UX/UI to brand strategy. (LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aubrey-lange-bb558931/)

Moderated by Sayena Majlesein – Sr. product designer at Microsoft (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sayena-majlesein/)

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Summer Jam '21 [Virtual Event]
Jun
10
6:00 PM18:00

Summer Jam '21 [Virtual Event]

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We’re trying something new, and streaming on Twitch!

Peek into the product design process as Tony tackles an app design challenge live. We’ll use randomized prompts, and inputs from the audience so there’s no telling what will be created!
We hope that this can be a learning experience, with questions asked and answered along the way.

Please take a moment to read through the IxDA Code of Conduct before registering.

Featuring the talents of Tony Yates, Principal Experience Designer @ INRIX.
Tony is an industry-leading visual and UX designer and brand strategist whose experience includes Fortune 50 companies Amazon, Microsoft, and HTC, as well as boutique agencies, agile startups, and nonprofits. His vision has driven global website designs, hung on freeway billboards, and has been used to move the needle for corporations in need of world-class design.

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Creative Action for Seattle
Apr
6
to Jul 31

Creative Action for Seattle

COVID-19 has created difficulties for all businesses, and has presented unique challenges for small businesses and organizations. Our goal is to pair local creatives with small businesses and organizations in the greater Seattle area to offer volunteer support.

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Beyond the Design Sprint: Creating Timeless Research (w/ Joe Munko)
Dec
4
6:00 PM18:00

Beyond the Design Sprint: Creating Timeless Research (w/ Joe Munko)

In this talk, Joe Munko will outline how and why he's instituted an ethos of timeless research within Microsoft's Research and Insight team. He'll present their process of curating a body of knowledge about customers’ beliefs, capabilities, and needs, leveling that up to organizational knowledge, and applying these insights to future product development. He'll discuss how his team leverages their research repository to connect their generative and agile research over time and across products. He'll also speak to the importance of teaching product teams how to use this repository to meet their own specific goals.

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