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We are partnering with ConveyUX for the Puget Sound UX Super Meetup ’20. This part of the ConveyUX conference is open to all. Pre-registration is required.

Sign up right away to guarantee your spot. Your registration includes one drink, and appetizers will be served.

UX veteran and "Maker of Awesomeness" Jared Spool will present "Design is a Team Sport."

There will also be plenty of time for networking and socializing.

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TALK DESCRIPTION

Every seasoned designer has fallen into the trap. They see the bad design in front of them. They can’t help but see how bad it is. And they want to redesign it. Show the world how it could be done. How it should be done.

Well-intentioned as the desire to rid the world of this bad design is, their approach often is a disaster. It pushes their allies away, accidentally giving off the air of superiority filled with the smells of arrogance and contempt.

An alternative is a well-designed process for creating your designs. The secret sauce in that well-designed process is a realization and inclusiveness of everyone on the team. It’s infused with an understanding of how people contribute to the design process, even when they aren’t trained in design skills. And it opens up opportunities to give everyone — not just your trained designers — the superpowers necessary to rid your products and services of bad design.

This talk will inspire you and your team to:

• Realize the reason everyone thinks they are a designer is they are a designer, however unskilled

• Learn that our design processes need to be designed, with intention and thoughtfulness

• Focus on helping every contributing influencer of your designs become a consciously competent designer themselves.

THE SPEAKER

Jared M. Spool is a Maker of Awesomeness at Center Centre – UIE. Center Centre is the school he started with Leslie Jensen-Inman to create industry-ready User Experience Designers. UIE is Center Centre’s professional development arm, dedicated to understanding what it takes for organizations to produce competitively great products and services.

In the 43 years he’s been in the tech field, he’s worked with hundreds of organizations, written two books, published hundreds of articles and podcasts, and tours the world speaking to audiences everywhere. When he can, he does his laundry in Andover, Massachusetts.

ABOUT CONVEY UX

ConveyUX is the premier user experience conference on the West Coast. The 2020 conference in Seattle features 65 sessions from 50 UX leaders across three full days. Join us March 3–5, 2020 to explore how UX really gets done.

You can purchase tickets for the full 3-day conference here: https://conveyux.com/register/