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Events
CHIFOO
Event | Design Thinking in the Field
September 3, 2008
| Wednesday | 6:30-8pm+
Matt Cottam, Tellart
Many design methods strive to help designers better understand
their users’ needs, such as ethnographic research and
participatory design. Matt Cottam has put these approaches
to the ultimate test: while working on a project for the healthcare
industry, Matt trained to be a certified paramedic, giving
him a whole new perspective into the needs of doctors, nurses,
and other medical professionals. Matt will share his experiences
and how they allowed him to identify truly innovative design
opportunities.
For details visit: http://www.chifoo.org/
CHIFOO
Event | Workshop: Sketching Physical Devices
September 4, 2008
| Thursday | Full-Day Workshop
Matt will introduce participants to Sketch Tools, a robust toolset
that allows relative technical novices to experiment, ideate,
and prototype with Phidgets RFID, sensors, Flash, networks,
and more. Participants will have an opportunity to work together
to sketch, design, and build prototypes using a variety of hardware
and software kits. In addition, Matt will demo some cutting-edge
mobile sketching platforms, as well as some past projects.
For details visit: http://www.chifoo.org/
Inverge
Event | The Portland Creative Conference
September 6, 2008
| Saturday |
7:45am-7pm
The Portland Creative Conference on September 6th marks the
return of this interdisciplinary event for people working in
creative industries. This year's conference-with an introductory
registration fee of only 99 dollars-features leading creatives
from various industries (Nike, Wieden+Kennedy, Dark Horse Comics,
LAIKA/entertainment, Michasel Curry Design, etc.) who will reveal
their work and talk about their creative process, influences,
inspirations, etc. It is an opportunity for attendees to get
inside the head of visionaries who are generating highly original
and effective ideas and to be inspired in entirely new ways,
viewing their own world with a fresh perspective as a result.
For more info visit: http://www.cre8con.com
Office
Event | AIGA Portland Career Tools
September 9, 2008
| Tuesday |
8am
AIGA Portland has recruited OFFICE PDX co-owner and marketing
director to speak on the topic of "Promoting Your Own Design
Business" as part of their CAREER TOOLS breakfast educational
series. Time: 8 AM; Location: TBD. Join AIGA and Coller and
she shares insights from her 12+ years of succesfully marketing
brands, events, and design firms like NBBJ and Twenty Four Seven
as well as her own design store, OFFICE PDX.
For more info visit: http://www.officepdx.com/events.php
IDSA
Event | Steering Committee Meeting
September 9, 2008
| Tuesday | 6:30-8pm
All are welcome. Please join us to share your fresh ideas and
ways in which IDSA can continue to grow our design community.
Or, just come, hang out, eat and get to know your fellow designer.
Location: Email zlambie at yahoo dot com for location and directions
ASM
Event | Materials for Designers: The Intersection of Art and
Engineering Workshop
September 18-19, 2008
| Thursday-Friday | 9:00 am - 4:30 pm Daily
Key ingredients to a successful design include choosing the
right materials and processing them to produce products your
customers’ desire. This seminar will provide you with knowledge
and tools to combine the art and science of materials selection
for your designs. Be a source of knowledge for your clients,
engineering staff and production houses by understanding and
designing sharply with metals & polymers.
Location: Seattle, WA
For more info visit: http://asm.asminternational.org
IDSA
Event | THE SOCIAL
September 24, 2008 | Wednesday | 6-8:30pm
IDSA Oregon presents: The Social - a monthly after work meetup
for Portland area designers and the people who love them. This
month's location is Office.
Location: Office
2204 NE Alberta St.
Portland, OR
Phone: 503.282.7200
IDSA
Event | NW
IDSA Meeting
September 25, 2008 | Thursday | TBD
Save the Date :: The annual NW IDSA meeting will be held on
Thursday September 25th. Location TBD, but also included in
the meeting will be a working session to get community feedback
on your thoughts on IDSA. Put your thinking caps on and bring
your opinions (good and bad), thoughts, and ideas for the IDSA
crew. More info to follow. Stay tuned and let us know if you
would be interested in helping out with the event.
Location: TBD
CHIFOO
Event | Researching Meaning to Identify More Meaningful Customer
Experiences
October 1, 2008
| Wednesday | 6:30-8pm+
The business world has begun to talk about the need to address
meaning in customers' lives, but few have bothered to define
what this means and none have developed any models or methods
for how this intersects with product or service development—until
now. Nathan Shedroff, one of the the authors of Making Meaning,
will present a model for meaning and methods for researching
customer emotion, values, and meaning, as well as describing
how it affects both business strategy and new product design.
For details visit: http://www.chifoo.org/
IDSA
Lextant Event | "What Have You Done For Me Lately"
- a design research work session
October 9, 2008
| Wednesday | 6:30-8pm+
This Fall the design and research consultancy, lextant (http://www.lextant.com),
recently featured in IDSA's "design perspectives",
and the IDSA Design Research section chair, Marty Gage, will
be helping the Northwest Chapter answer the following questions:
- "Why is there a chapter of IDSA in the Northwest?",
- "What do Northwest designers want and need from the chapter
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- "How should the NW chapter provide for these wants and
needs?".
Watch for a survey in your email in-box and get prepared to
learn how to analyze survey results and turn them into design
ideas at the October 9th work session.
Here is some inspiration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z0h_c9eH-8
Would you or your company like to help sponsor this event? Please
contact Lindsey.Berdan@fluke.com
by September 1st if you can help the chapter with the cost of
food and facility (4 sponsors at $250 each).
IxDA
Event | IxDA
Portland F2F
October 21, 2008 | Tuesday
| 6pm
It's the IxDA Portland Face-to-Face gathering this Tuesday
evening. Come out to rant, kvetch, engage and connect with
fellow Interaction Design practitioners and interested parties.
For real and for live, we'll network locally and get inspired
together.
*What: IxDA Portland F2F*
*When: 6 pm, October 21st (3rd Tuesday every 2nd month)*
*Where: Ringler's Pub (McMenamin's joint between 13th &
14th on Burnside)*
For more info visit: www.ixda.org
IDSA
Event | THE SOCIAL
October 29, 2008 | Wednesday | 6-8:30pm
IDSA Oregon presents: The Social - a monthly after work meetup
for Portland area designers and the people who love them. This
month's location is tentatively Holocene.
Tentative Location: Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St.
Portland, OR
Phone: 503.239.7639
CHIFOO
Event | Fun and Games at Work
November 5, 2008
| Wednesday | 6:30-8pm+
Nancy Frishberg, Certified Innovation Games® Facilitator
This talk will introduce the topic of design games, which are
structured to involve your customers, your users, and your team
in activities that are structured, time-limited, and enjoyable.
They focus your audience on specific questions related to products
and services such as prioritization of features, what's not
working well, how a product fits into daily life, and what kind
of physical-digital environment your customers live in. In the
end, your team has data to drive decisions, and even had some
fun along the way!
For details visit: http://www.chifoo.org
CHIFOO
Event | Workshop: Creative solutions through Innovation Games®
November 6, 2008
| Thursday | Full-Day Workshop
Innovation Games® comprise a dozen activities which have
as their goals strategic planning as well as more tactical decision-making.
Using a variety of expressive techniques, Innovation Games get
firsthand reactions from customers and users about an actual
or proposed product, a product category, or service offering.
While similar to focus groups in a few ways, Innovation Games
(and other design games) stimulate the customers to tell you
things that are important for them that you would have never
thought to ask.
For details visit: http://www.chifoo.org
IDSA
Event | THE SOCIAL
November 26, 2008 | Wednesday | 6-8:30pm
IDSA Oregon presents: The Social - a monthly after work meetup
for Portland area designers and the people who love them. This
month's location is tentatively Victory Bar.
Tentative Location: Victory Bar
3652 SE Division St.
Portland, OR
Phone: 503.236.8755
IxDA
Event | IxDA
Portland F2F
December 16, 2008 | Tuesday
| 6pm
It's the IxDA Portland Face-to-Face gathering this Tuesday
evening. Come out to rant, kvetch, engage and connect with
fellow Interaction Design practitioners and interested parties.
For real and for live, we'll network locally and get inspired
together.
*What: IxDA Portland F2F*
*When: 6 pm, December 16th (3rd Tuesday every 2nd month)*
*Where: Ringler's Pub (McMenamin's joint between 13th &
14th on Burnside)*
For more info visit: www.ixda.org
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