IxDA Munich

When? Monday, April 10th at 19:00
Where? Fraunhoferstraße 23h, Munich Map
FREE event (but registration is required!)
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Behavioural Design  – Jorn Craeghs (SUE Amsterdam)

At the event Jorn will hand you a model by which you can explain every form of human behaviour & which you can use to come up with behaviour changing ideas. He will also present and explain multiple persuasion principles from the science of influence. So if you want to master the art of persuasion, this one’s for you to attend.

About the Speaker

Jorn Craeghs works as Insights Lead for SUE Amsterdam and is Head Teacher at the Behavioral Design Academy.He helps organizations become Human-Centred and tackles Behaviour Change challenges. He has dedicated the past years to making psychology applicable to design challenges, with the goal of gathering deep human insights and coming up with effective ideas to change behaviour.

Sponsors

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

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When? Monday, Jan 16th at 19:00
Where? Steinerstraße 15, 81369 Munich Map
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Radical Trust – How to Grow as a Leader by Jane Austin

How do you scale your effectiveness as a leader? I’ll take you on my journey in answering this question. Moving from a culture of top-down management to one of radically devolved teams. Learning new ways to help build autonomous, inclusive teams that are empowered to find their own direction. Allowing you to let go as a leader and be confident that your teams will all go in the right direction.

About the Speaker

Jane is a Glaswegian. She went to London for the summer many years ago and never came back. Since then she has worked as a UX in The City, in start ups, at agencies, in government at GDS and is now design director at MOO. She is particularly interested in how design fits works with Agile, with research, and at scale in large organisations.

Sponsors

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

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When? Monday, Oct 10th at 19:00
Where? Baaderstr. 7, 80469 Munich Map
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Closure Experiences by Joe Macleod

How many products have you started, lunched, built the customer base for? Do you have the same passion about ending them appropriately? Does it matter?

Most experiences in life are punctuated by a closure experience. In the past these were profound; however, over generations we have distanced ourselves from meaningful closure experiences thanks to our lifestyles increasing in comfort, the church weakening and medicine advancing. 
Long term side effects of this are exampled in the Product, Service and Digital landscapes that we frequent. The consequences of our behaviour results in a changing climate, industries fined billions for mis-selling and individuals casually eroding their personal online reputations.

Many of us are active in the creation of services, products or digital products; making them attractive, engaging and usable for consumers, but we often overlook concluding these experiences for the user in a responsible way. Closure Experiences offers a model to frame this change.

About the Speaker

Joe Macleod is founder of Closure Experiences, a new business looking at how we design endings in our products, services and digital products. He talks, writes, consults and teaches on this across Europe. Previously he led design at ustwo for many years. Helping to build it into a globally recognised team. He also foundered the IncludeDesign campaign which launched in 2013. And previous to this he worked at Nokia creating a hack team to disrupt the corporate drone of powerpoint, produced mobile services for pregnant women in Africa and pioneered lighting behaviour for millions of phones.

Sponsors

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

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When? Monday, Sept 5th at 19:00
Where? Arnulfstraße 60, 80335 Munich Map
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Tailored workshops: Getting real results through design (Boon Yew Chew from Sapient London)

Workshops can be daunting for UX professionals, especially when design problems get complex and standard workshop formats won’t work well. You’ll learn why tailoring workshops works better, how to design fresh workshops around your needs, running it effectively with different audiences, and ensuring the outcomes you want. Most importantly, you’ll learn how to learn, so you can develop your own style as you grow.

In the 2-hour session, we’ll get into:

• What’s a workshop anyway?
• Laying the right foundations
• Planning your workshop effectively
• Resources and tools
• Running it well
• Success after the workshop

About the Speaker

Boon Chew is an Experience Design Manager at SapientNitro, where he helps large companies solve complex and messy problems towards improving the human condition. He serves on the board of the Interaction Design Association and is a Local Leader for IxDA’s London chapter where he helps shape the direction and growth of interaction design communities. As a prolific sketchnoter and visual thinker, his work has covered dozens of events and has taught visual thinking to audiences worldwide.

Sponsors

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

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When? Monday, July 11th at 19:00
Where? Designit, Steinerstr. 15, 81369 Munich Map
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The Hidden Challenges and Rewards of Managing a UX Team by Rachel Jackson (Thomson Reuters UK)

What’s next for you? The interaction design world is growing and changing and there is an increasing number of opportunities within our profession. One option as you progress in your career is the move to management. But should you do it?

I want to share with you the 4 big lessons I learned through my experience managing a UX team. I use insight from the experts to provide a deeper understanding of what great leadership really is, while relating it back to the specific challenges of being a UX manager.

As an interaction designer you already have many of the skills needed to give you a head start in the move to management. But there is more to it than what appears on the surface. One of the most difficult parts of being a manager is building the emotional intelligence to bring self awareness, empathy and humility to the role. These traits are more important than those commonly portrayed by the ‘charismatic leaders’ of popular culture and they are things that can be learned. In my talk I will demonstrate how these come into play with examples of common issues that you might face as a UX manager.

Being a good manager takes time and effort as well as a shift in focus away from the pure practice of design. But it is in many ways its own design challenge that brings great satisfaction. And the skills you will learn are life skills, not only work skills.

About Rachel

I am Director of Design at Thomson Reuters, within a large in house UX team, designing extremely complex, feature rich financial software used by 130,000 financial professionals around the world.
During my 5 years at the company, I have managed various shapes and sizes of UX teams as well as working as an Interaction Designer. I currently lead a team of brilliant Interaction, Visual and Motion Graphic Designers. My goal is to create a respectful, supportive work environment that allows people to fulfill their potential and use their talent and creativity to accomplish amazing things.
Prior to moving to London, I worked for Microsoft in Silicon Valley. I am originally from Toronto, Canada.

Sponsors

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

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