The Intersection Between People-first Culture + People-first design

Tonight's free presentation is by Chicago-based designer, author, and speaker Justin Dauer.

We'll start off the new year with the possibility of developing a new perspective as UX professionals:

· We cannot preach outwardly about empathy for those we’re designing for (re: human beings) if as designers, researchers, architects, developers (and on and on), we’re not supporting each other.

· A “human-centered mindset” means people are at the center of everything in a business: empathy and compassion guide our hand across personnel, process, and product.

· Creating with compassion in an environment fueled by compassion means we never lose sight of what it’s all about: people and the environment in which they exist. Beyond functioning in this manner because “it’s the right thing to do,” quality of work, loyalty internally (team) and externally (users), and product innovation are all benefits to reap.

Our agenda for the evening is as follows:

7:30 pm Welcome and introduction
7:35 pm Justin's presentation
8:20 pm Q&A
8:45 pm Announcements and Networking
9:00 pm Closing

About our speaker:

Justin Dauer is the author of “Creative Culture: Human-Centered Interaction, Design and Inspiration." He has given multiple high-profile presentations, including the MidwestUX opening keynote, the AIGA Portfolio Festival closing presentation, a Big Design Conference presentation, etc. A myriad of published interviews and links are on his website as well. Visit: https://www.pseudoroom.com/

Justin Dauer believes that a happy and well-supported employee is an inspired creator. And when employers focus on the human beings behind the projects, creatives can do their best work, which leads to a successful company.

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A big shout-out to Rupa Misra and Rutgers University for their support of tonight's event. We couldn't have done it without them.

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