Service Design & Design Thinking - UX Breakfast Club
- November 17, 2012 · 9:00 AM
The UX Breakfast Club, sponsored by The Los Angeles User Experience Meetup group and Vitamin T, provides a setting to discuss topics related to User Experience or emerging issues in the field that may be impacting the discipline.
The UX Breakfast Club will meet on Saturday at 9:00 AM at Cafe Laurent in Culver City. The event is free. You will notice that you are required to place a deposit when you submit your RSVP. Your money will be refunded if you attend. This allows us to provide a precise reservation to Cafe Laurent.
Please review the menu and make your selection before coming to Cafe Laurent. This will help save time so the event can begin promptly. Be sure to stay focused on the conversation topic during the gathering.
Only those with an "attending" RSVP status may join the event. If you are interested in the gathering and it's full, please join the waiting list. Spots often become available at the last minute.
I'm please to announce the following experts will be joining us:
Jose Caballer is the Chief Education Officer and co-founder of The Skool, an online education company that aims to teach the standard process for successful web projects. He studied graphic design at Art Center College of Design. He has worked with diverse clients such as Al Gore, Jamie Oliver, Thomas Keller, Alice Waters and corporate client like Disney, Nike and Myspace.
Today he combines his 16 years of experience and his passion for teaching Web Design on his TV show This Week in Web Design and in training thousands of students, freelancers, and professionals at TheSkoolRocks.com.
Sean McDonald is a software designer who works at the intersection of storytelling, networks and visualization. The biggest part of his body of work involves visualizing human relationships. He incorporates an approach using sociographic analysis of the human network. It shares similarity with demographic analysis, but is focused on human relationships at both a micro and macro level. He has also started nationally and internationally touring art collaboratives with The Reality Inspectors and The COLORBOX Project. Read more about his unique approach on his website.
Ko Nakatsu, is the co-founder of Potluck (www.potluckwtf.com), a collaborative creative agency specializing in strategy, research, and design. They use design thinking and other methods for clients like Adidas, Nissan, Jay-Z's DJ Young Guru, Pearson, and start-ups to develop future concepts and design. He conducts workshops on future forecasting and speculative design with an upcoming event at Artesis in Belgium. Prior to Potluck, he strategized automotive concepts for 5 to 20 years out, as well as the UX of 100% virtual classrooms for 20+million users. He is also the co-founder of Hiya (www.hiyatea.com), a premium tea brand.
Hunter Ochs is a User Experience strategist with an extensive portfolio of work for all major interactive platforms. His skills include experience design, interface design and usability, as well as user research. As experience architect, Hunter develops interactive products and creative concepts according to the client’s strategic profile, brand and marketing needs.
Hunter recently joined the Capital Group as user experience lead. His competence has been demonstrated through work for high-profile companies (DIRECTV, Disney, Apple, Shazam) and through teaching engagements at leading U.S. institutes (Pasadena Art Center, California Institute of the Arts, Chapman University).
Craig Peters is a user experience professional with more than ten years of experience in design, management, and organizational strategy. Before founding Awasu Design, he co-founded Bolt | Peters, a user experience research firm recently acquired by Facebook. Craig has worked with a variety of well-known companies including Wells Fargo, HP, Ancestry, Flurry, Hallmark, Time Warner, Restoration Hardware, Blue Shield, KQED, and EMC/Documentum.
In an earlier life, Craig co-founded a middle-school program in the San Francisco Bay Area and taught in Detroit and Minneapolis. He credits his passion for business facilitation and coaching to his teaching career. He speaks at conferences on how enterprises can enable their user experience personnel to be more effective and make greater impact. Things that make Craig happy: running meetings that are way more productive than you expected and inspiring teams to be as awesome as they can be.
Christina Tran is a Social Design Consultant & Program Lead at HourSchool. Be sure to check out her extensive work at So Delightful. Christina will discuss Service Design tools and processes and also share her experience and views on co-design. Be sure to read about the HourSchool's peer education programs in which the HourSchool organizes bite-sized, in-person classes to unlock the knowledge in our cities. HourSchool empowers anyone to become a teacher. http://www.core77designawards.com/2012/recipients/building-peer-education-programs-hour-time/
Luke Swenson from Media Contour will be joining us also.
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Crystal Ehrlich, UX Designer
And, last by not least, thank you to Carlos for helping me with everything related to the meeting planning efforts behind these events.
November 19
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Crystal Ehrlich, UX Designer
I would also like to thank Yoko Nakano and Vitamin T for helping me find speakers on this emerging topic.
The photos were the courtesy of Noel Saw.
And, the entire event would not be possible without the extraordinary generous support of Vitamin T. I'm very graftul for their support of the local UX community. They rock!
If you are currently looking for a position, please contact Vanessa Zamora at [masked]. She specializes in UX there.
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Crystal Ehrlich, UX Designer
Big thanks to our amazing guest experts:
Jose Caballer, Chief Education Officer and co-founder of The Skool, TV host of This Week in Web Design.
Sean McDonald, working at the intersection of storytelling, networks and visualization
Ko Nakatsu, co-founder of Potluck (www.potluckwtf.com), a collaborative creative agency specializing in strategy, research, and design and Hiya tea.
Hunter Ochs is a User Experience strategist and former instructor at Pasadena Art Center, California Institute of the Arts, Chapman University
Craig Peters, a user experience professional with more than ten years of experience in design, management, and organizational strategy and founder of Awasu. He also co-founded Bolt | Peters and joined us from San Francisco.
Christina Tran, Social Design Consultant & Program Lead at HourSchool and recent winner of Core77's Educational Initiatives for 2012.
(Due to the character count limit, more thanks to come...)
November 19
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Crystal Ehrlich, UX Designer
This year's "Global Service Design Jam" is in March 2013 :: I hope you will all join us. More information can be found on their Facebook page at:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/G...
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Crystal Ehrlich, UX Designer
Photos of the Service Design & Design Thinking gathering:
http://www.meetup.com/UX-Breakf...
November 17
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Crystal Ehrlich, UX Designer
Service Design Thinking video: http://vimeo.com/channels/31443...
November 16
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Crystal Ehrlich, UX Designer
IMPORTANT REMINDER: Please keep in mind that only those with an "attending" RSVP status may join the event. If you are interested in the gathering and it's full, please join the waiting list. Spots often become available at the last minute. Because those attending have paid a refundable deposit, I will be taking attendance.
Please do not crash the event. Because seating is limited, you will be asked to leave. Thanks for understanding.
November 16
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A former member
If a space opens, I'm in.
November 16
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Crystal Ehrlich, UX Designer
Hi Folks,
We usually have the UX Breakfast Club in the garden area outside but tomorrow we will be meeting inside. There is a chance of rain so we are playing it safe. For those attending, see you there!
Best, Crystal
[masked]November 16
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Crystal Ehrlich, UX Designer
For those of you attending the Service Design & Design Thinking - UX Breakfast Club on Saturday, please take a look at the menu in advance and decide what you would like order. I would like us to place the orders very quickly so we can focus on these two fascinating topics. The menu can be found here:
http://www.cafelaurent.com/menu...
I also recommend that you arrive at 8:45 AM so we can begin on time.
See you soon!
--Crystal
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Crystal Ehrlich, UX Designer
Please post your questions in advance for the Service Design and Design Thinking guest experts. Here are the starter questions that will be asked:
What is Service Design?
What is Design Thinking?
How is Service Design different from other forms of design, like Design Thinking?
What problems do these approaches solve?
How does Service Design and Design Thinking approaches improve people's lives?November 12
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John Reid
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sean mcdonald
Guest Expert - Service Design & Design Thinking
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Ko Nakatsu
Guest Expert - Design Thinking
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Vanessa
Vanessa Zamora - aquent / vitamin t
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Hunter Ochs
guest expert - service design & design thinking
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Jose Caballer
Guest Expert - Service Design & Design Thinking
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Christina
Guest Expert - Service Design & Design Thinking
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Luke Swenson
Reporter, Media Contour
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A former member
Your organizer's refund policy for Service Design & Design Thinking - UX Breakfast Club
Refunds offered if:
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Additional notes: The event is free. You will notice that you are required to place a deposit when you submit your RSVP. Your money will be refunded if you attend. This allows us to provide a precise reservation to Cafe Laurent.
Payments you make go to the organizer, not to Meetup. You must make refund requests to the organizer.
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