Iconathon SF Open Invitation!
- Aug 6, 2011 from 3:00am to 10:00am UTC-07
- Location: Code for America Office - 85 2nd Street CA
- Description:
Join us at the Code for America offices in Downtown San Francisco on Saturday, August 6, 2011. We will be holding the first ever Iconathon event, held in collaboration between Code for America & The Noun Project.This event will set the precedent for
- Created by: Karla Macedo
Past Events (392)
Device Design Day 2011
- Aug 4, 2011 to Aug 5, 2011
- Location: SFAI
- Description:
A one-day conference for professionals who design hardware or software for consumer electronics, appliances, and mobile devices.
- Created by: Dan Saffer
Mobile First with Luke Wroblewski @ Ning Tech Talks
- Aug 3, 2011 from 11:00am to 1:00pm UTC-07
- Location: Ning HQ
- Description:
For years, most Web teams have designed for the desktop. Mobile, if it even happened, was a port off the desktop version, designed and built before anyone even considered the mobile experience. This made perfect sense for a while. Browsing the Web on
- Created by: Shali Nguyen
Tonight in Palo Alto: Educating the Next Generation of Interaction Designers
- Jul 12, 2011 from 12:00pm to 2:30pm UTC-07
- Location: PARC in Palo Alto
- Description: This month's BayCHI program at PARC in Palo Alto features Dr. Kristian Simsarian, the undergraduate Interaction Design program chair at California College of the Arts (CCA), and Carl Therrien, a guest lecturer in the new Video Game Studies program at
- Created by: Abi Jones
San Francisco Design Week
- Jun 12, 2011 to Jun 19, 2011
- Location: San Francisco
- Description: San Francisco Design Week is organized by the local chapters of the IDSA, AIGA, IxDA, AIA, & SEGD and features a full week of events highlighting the diversity and enthusiasm of the design community around the Bay. Our goal is to raise public awarene
- Created by: Maria Cordell
Mental Models with Indi Young
- Apr 20, 2011 from 12:00pm to 2:30pm UTC-07
- Location: Nokia Research Center
- Description:
BayCHI and IxDA of Silicon Valley invite you to join us Wednesday for an evening on Mental Model Diagrams: Sparking Creativity Through Empathy. In this presentation, Indi Young, author of Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior di
- Created by: Abi Jones
Talk: Parul Vora (Wikimedia Foundation and The Laboratorium)
- Apr 13, 2011 from 11:00am to 12:30pm UTC-07
- Location: University of California, Berkeley
- Description: Participation, Collaboration, and Engagement
People don’t always do what’s profitable, they also do what’s fun. People don’t always do what serves their self-interests, they also do what is collectively right and good. People aren’t always rational an - Created by: Elizabeth Goodman
Scot Hacker on Building a Killer Bucketlist Site with Python/Django
- Apr 12, 2011 from 12:00pm to 2:30pm UTC-07
- Location: PARC's George E. Pake Auditorium
- Description: Scot Hacker used Django to create a social network, Bucketlist.org, where individuals can go to catalog all the things they wanted to accomplish before they died, to share inspirations, encourage others toward completion of their goals, and to add ri
- Created by: Abi Jones
Design Futures talk: Chris Hecker (definition six) - SpyParty and Indie Games
- Mar 23, 2011 from 11:00am to 12:30pm UTC-07
- Location: University of California, Berkeley
- Description: Chris focuses on solving hard problems at the intersection of gameplay, aesthetics, and technology. He is an outspoken advocate for pushing the current boundaries of design and interactivity, in the hope that games will eventually achieve their full
- Created by: Elizabeth Goodman
Eye Tracking Best Practices and Mistakes to Avoid
- Mar 15, 2011 from 11:00am to 2:00pm UTC-07
- Location: AnswerLab, San Francisco 160 Spear Street 7th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105
- Description:
Eye Tracking Best Practices and Mistakes to Avoid
John Cheng, Brennan Browne, Julie Kwak, AnswerLabRSVP required to: rsvp@answerlab.com
Full info at: http://www.baychi.org/calendar/20110315/
Eye tracking is a powerful research tool that provides insight
- Created by: Abi Jones
Designing Firefox with Alex Faaborg
- Mar 10, 2011 from 11:00am to 1:30pm UTC-08
- Location: PARC's George E. Pake Auditorium in Palo Alto
- Description:
New Date: THURSDAY, March 10
Full information at http://www.baychi.org/calendar/20110310/
Firefox is used by over 400 million people as their window onto the web, with over 30% market share. But Firefox is remarkable not only for its success. A distri
- Created by: Abi Jones
Design Futures talk: Stuart Candy (Arup) - How to Build a World
- Mar 9, 2011 from 10:00am to 11:30am UTC-08
- Location: University of California, Berkeley
- Description:
Stuart Candy, Arup and The Skeptical Futuryst
How to Build a World
The art of developing, exploring and communicating alternative futures is in an exciting and rapid phase development, with the emergence of overlapping practices, and their respective d
- Created by: Elizabeth Goodman
InfoCamp Berkeley '11
- Mar 4, 2011 to Mar 6, 2011
- Location: UC Berkeley School of Information
- Description:
InfoCamp Berkeley is an unconference for the information community
It features an egalitarian, community-driven format in which most presentations are designed and delivered by participants. And it’s a lot of fun!
InfoCamp Berkeley 2011 is for anyone i
- Created by: Thomas Schluchter
Designing journalism experiences with Adaptive Path
- Feb 3, 2011 from 10:30am to 1:00pm UTC-08
- Location: Adaptive Path
- Description: (Note: Please RSVP at http://meetupbayarea.hackshackers.com/calendar/16169628/)Leading interactive design firm Adaptive Path will take us through their design process and talk about lessons that can be applied to journalism and media. Adaptive Path h
- Created by: Burt Herman
Creative Collective
- Jan 26, 2011 from 12:00pm to 4:00pm UTC-08
- Location: Harlot
- Description: Cap off your day in a casual environment with a cold drink and good company at Creative Collective, a brand new event that invites the Bay Area's creative community to chat about their shared interests.
- Created by: Analisa Lono
LUXi at Cooper
- Jan 25, 2011 to Jan 27, 2011
- Location: Cooper
- Description:
LUXi: the lean user experience intensive, is a two-day workshop focused around four big themes:
- Users first! Design is bigger than wireframes and mock-ups
- Being generative and decisive, and the importance of making things physical
- Recognizing hypothes
- Created by: Kim Appelquist
Bill Moggridge - Interaction Design, Then and Now
- Jan 21, 2011 from 11:00am to 12:15pm UTC-08
- Location: California College of the Arts - Timken Hall
- Description: Join us for a lecture by Bill Moggridge to mark the impending launch of CCA's newest undergraduate program, Interaction Design. Bill Moggridge was cofounder of IDEO and is now the director of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York. His
- Created by: Kristian Simsarian
Women 2.0 Startup Weekend (Nov. 19 - 21 in Mountain View)
- Nov 19, 2010 at 10:30am to Nov 21, 2010 at 12:30pm UTC-08
- Location: Hacker Dojo (Mountain View, CA)
- Description: Women 2.0 Startup Weekend THIS WEEKEND in Mountain View, CABoth men and women are invited to Women 2.0 Startup Weekend (November 19-21 in Mountain View) to start projects, start companies and meet potential co-founders and colleagues.Last year's Wome
- Created by: Angie Chang
Social media for social good: Cooper open studio
- Nov 17, 2010 from 10:00am to 1:00pm UTC-08
- Location: cooper
- Description: Join us for an evening with Jennifer Aaker, co-author of The Dragonfly Effect, a must-read for designers and developers interested in connecting meaning with social media and the design principles invaluable for affecting big change in small acts.RSV
- Created by: Jim Dibble
BayCHI talks: Elizabeth Goodman and Xianhang (Hang) Zhang
- Nov 9, 2010 from 11:30am to 1:30pm UTC-08
- Location: Palo Alto, CA
- Description: Two talks on ixd:Moving Interaction Design Off the Desktop and Into the World: Lessons from the FieldElizabeth Goodman, UC Berkeley I-SchoolLessons from Social Software: From Facebook to Face to Face Design GuildXianhang (Hang) Zhang, PeelDescription
- Created by: Elizabeth Goodman