Like it or not, the sixth wave of extinction is upon us. By the end of the century nearly 50% of all species on the planet will be gone. Most will perish simply because they do not have enough time to adapt to rapidly changing environmental condition

Are you curious to learn how people are using the principles of User Experience Design to solve an interesting array of on and off-screen challenges?

Find out how participating at hackathons can inform and enhance your work as a design practitioner. H

About Cooper's Interaction Design Training in San Francisco, California

February 19-22, 2013

Learn about Personas and Goal-Directed design from the people who invented them! Our practicum is an intensive, hands-on workshop led by senior Cooper staff. F

When surveyed about the main reasons why they had not talked to their loved ones, 41% of Californians said they had too many other things to worry about right now, and 39% said that they or their loved one didn't want to think about death or dying.

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One of Europe's most successful design conferences, TYPO returns to San Francisco in 2013.

And IxDA SF is a proud sponsor!

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Not only is contrast an element of design, but it represents an element of challenge to designers themselves. While good de

As mobile and cross-channel challenges become even more complex, we find ourselves chasing an endless explosion of devices, app platforms and operating systems. Meanwhile, user context is becoming more ambiguous and varied than ever. What if, rather

We are excited to announce that registration for the 4th annual Games User Research Summit is now open. If you are interested in user research and design for games, please join us! 

Registration is at: http://igdagursummit2013.eventbrite.com/. 

The IGD

HxD 2013: Where Healthcare & Design Intersect

At the Healthcare Experience Design Conference you’ll join designers, technologists, product managers, researchers, entrepreneurs, visionaries, and dreamers representing a broad spectrum of companies and o

Explore the potential of resilient design to improve the way the world works next month with designers, brand strategists, architects, futurists, experts and entrepreneurs at this sustainability conference, held March 22-23 by AIGA San Francisco.

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Explore the potential of resilient design to improve the way the world works next month with designers, brand strategists, architects, futurists, experts and entrepreneurs at this sustainability conference, held March 22-23 by AIGA San Francisco.

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Insightful case study presented by client and consultant on how using design thinking can help traditional product-focused enterprises transform into nimble business networks - "The Emergence of Value Exchange Networks".

Presented by:
Trish Powell, Pr

IxDA SF is happy to announce its annual IxDA conference RedUX!

Late last month over 900 designers converged on Toronto for IxDA's Interaction13 conference. We listened, learned, mingled, and mindmelded with others while trying to stay warm in the froz

MX: Managing Experience is a conference for people who take a leadership role in guiding better experiences into the world.

MX serves up examples to learn from and approaches to adopt that can help you lead your organization toward investing in or imp

The IxDA's annual conference is sold out, but I thought I'd add it here for reference and to see who else is going from SF.

Main conference site:
http://interaction13.ixda.org/

Description:
Join us in Toronto, Canada's largest center for design, as th

Cyd Harrell, formerly of Bolt | Peters, mentor at Code for America, and advisor to ethnio, will discuss why the rise of the smartphone is so important to researching human behavior, and share tips and tricks for effective mobile studies.

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In October of 2012, AOL released Alto - a next generation email product centered around the philosophy that organization is beautiful. In this fireside chat, Bill Wetherell, Senior Director of UX Design for AOL Mail, will share the story of how Alto