IxDA Munich

When? Tuesday, April 5 at 7pm
Where? Google Munich, Erika-Mann-Str. 33 80636 Munich Map

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What is the talk about?

Lessons learned from working at the intersection of business and design for a high-tech startup

Over the course of the last 4.5 years at a startup, Thomas started as the only designer in the team and grew it to a small designer team twice around different products. Finally landing a successful product with fast user growth. He advanced from solving design tasks to more strategic and business related tasks working closely with the founder and marketing lead. Thomas will share his lessons learned from five perspectives and introduce you to his reflection activity for mindful leaders. After his talk, you can run it for your current career, see what you have learned already and if you might need a change.

About the speaker

Thomas Gläser works at the intersection of design and business innovation, bringing ideas to life and enabling teams to become self-starters. He is excited about emerging technologies like AR, VR, and AI, which he believes should be used in ways that actually add value to people’s lives. Currently, he’s working as an independent innovation consultant helping corporates and startups to master the challenge of being innovative. Previously he was Head of UX for Delightex, performing key functions like user & market research, design & business strategy, creative direction & staffing, design production and business development. Before Delightex he managed his own design studio called envis precisely and worked for BMW as an interaction designer. He co-organizes the push.conference once a year.

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We would like to thank Google for supporting the local IxD community! Drinks and snacks will be provided.

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When? Tuesday, May 8th at 19:00
Where? Futurice, Implerstr. 7, 81371 München Map

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When it comes to management, our brain is the master. It manages information and executes functions while continuously adapting to change. How does our brain respond to external and internal stimuli? Which approaches does our brain take to store and manage information? How do neurons collaborate to achieve new and complex information-processing tasks? What approaches do economic entities (companies, departments, institutions, teams) use today to organize and process information? How about IT systems? Is there a way to apply and scale our brain’s approach to organizations and IT systems?

In this talk, Dr. Lina Yassin, a neuroscientist researcher and professional change agent, and Raid Naim, digital transformation expert and technologist by heart and passion, will try to answer some of these questions and converse with you in a highly discussion-enriched milieu.

About the speakers

Dr. Lina Yassin, a neuroscientist, researcher, and lecturer working at Futurice as a change agent. From her previous life at the lab deciphering the basis of neuroplasticity conducting electrophysiological research in the field of learning and memory, today she is consulting clients with their digital transformation. Her journey from teaching problem-oriented learning at the Charite made her aware of the resemblance between neuroplasticity, agility and design thinking. At Futurice, Lina is applying lean-service-creation open-source methodology and mindset to support her clients through their cultural and organizational transformation.

Raid Naim is head of digital transformation at Futurice, a new breed of innovation consultancy that has digital values at its core. Raid is a technologist by education and passion who is professionally living in the limbo between technology and business. In the last 15 years, he worked at large industrial corporations, digital giants, and startups and is fascinated with the way people get organized around value creation.

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We would like to thank Futurice for supporting the local IxD community! Drinks and snacks will be provided.

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When? Monday, January 22nd at 19:00
Where? Designit, Steinerstrasse 15, Gebäude F, 81369 München Map

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From personal virtual assistants to smart recommendations, from chatbots to computer vision systems, without even realizing the interaction with AI fuelled systems is becoming more and more common. AI is not about the future. AI is already all around us, analyzing us, serving us.

How does the role of interaction design change in this new scenario? Which are the new opportunities opened by new interface paradigms? In this talk we will reflect on some changes we need to embrace in the way we think and we work, in our skills and tasks, in order to design great AI-driven experiences.

About the speaker

Riccardo is a Lead Digital Designer at Designit, with a special focus on technology. With a hybrid background spacing from Interaction Design to software development, he has been designing and implementing mobile apps, physical touchpoints, new online services and connected products, and has been collecting some thoughts on how the nature and capabilities of technologies shape and define interactions.

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We would like to thank Designit for supporting the local IxD community! Drinks and snacks will be provided.

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When? Monday, December 4th at 19:00
Where? Freeletics GmbH, Lothstraße 5, 80335 München Map

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Many connected products fail to live up to their potential. Kevin Cannon has spent the last few years designing products like connected coffee machines and smart lights. In this talk, he’ll take an honest look at what he’s learned, when he’s failed and why smart home isn’t really fulfilling its potential. He’ll explore why it’s unusually hard to design for and looks at what it’ll take to become mainstream.

About the speaker

Kevin is a Principal Designer at frog specializing in Interaction Design. He has designed medical devices, smart home products, and museum exhibitions and has cried in many usability tests along the way. His favorite Twitter feed is the @internetofshit account and his goal when designing products is to avoid being featured on it. To date, he has not been 100% successful in that goal. Ask nicely and he might even tell you why.

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We would like to thank Freeletics for supporting the local IxD community! Drinks and snacks will be provided.

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When? Monday, November 13th at 19:00
Where? User Interface Design GmbH, Claudius-Keller-Straße 3C, 81669 München Map

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Knowledge workers use software for about 28 hours per week. Therefore, software should support work tasks and it should be easy to use. This is a consensus in the software development community. And of course, we have the right processes, methods, and tools to do that: Human-Centered Design, Lean UX, Design Thinking … The goals of these methods are manifold –  creating innovations according to the requirements of users, increasing acceptance of technology and, associated with that, reducing the risk of rejected products, increasing productivity and finally ensuring economic benefits. With regards to the user experience, the main goal is reducing negative experiences like frustration, anger or anxiety. Here the focus is on removing all obstacles so that the user can do optimal work.

For the last 20 years, however, researchers and professionals have been looking for more. Technology should be able to evoke positive experiences. A common and well-accepted approach is, designing more beautiful software, often related to designing for a positive brand experience. And yes, that is a valid measure. Users like and prefer beautiful products.

New research shows that you can do more. There are more ways to evoke positive experiences by design and this is valid for work contexts as well. But it is necessary to move past established ways of thinking about designing software or technology in general. Even modern innovation processes like Design Thinking have to be changed or extended. We have to work with new theories, new methods, and new tools.

In his talk, Michael Burmester wants to give some insights about research on positive user experience for work contexts, a new perspective on technology design, new methods, and tools.

About the speaker

Michael Burmester is Professor for Ergonomics and Usability at Stuttgart Media University. He is representative of the Information Experience and Design Research Group (IXD) and is leading the User Experience Research Lab (UXL). His main research interest is understanding how technology can be designed to evoke positive experiences. With his team, he developed a design methodology consisting of several methods and tools to support design for positive experiences. His goal is making work experiences more positive. This is not only important because the effects – that people are more motivated, more engaged and their work is more creative. But also, people are happier at work and positive experiences at work, in turn, contribute to their well-being.

Sponsors

We would like to thank User Interface Design for supporting the local IxD community! Drinks and snacks will be provided.

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