Design Thinking - Visiting Speaker - Janice Fraser - LUXr Co-Founder!

Come be inspired by Janice Fraser (http://luxr.co/about) - an amazing interaction designer for web and mobile products with over 15 years of experience in Silicon Valley!

Janice is an entrepreneur, designer, dreamer, maker and advisor to startups. Her latest venture, LUXr (http://luxr.co/), has provided workshops for thousands of entrepreneurs around the globe. She has personally worked with more than 50 companies in the past three years. With backing by 500Startups, Mitchell Kapor, Bill Gross's Idealab, and Tony Hsieh's Vegas Tech Fund.

Janice is also an advisor to startups including Task Rabbit and PopVox. She has raised capital, founded successful (and failed) startups, including the first UX design firm, Adaptive Path, where she served as the company’s first CEO. Janice is a guest speaker at many conferences and top business schools around the world, including Haas, Kellogg, Stanford, and the Presido Graduate School of Management.

The agenda for the night is:

6:30 - check-in, pizza and drinks, & networking
7:15 - speaker presentation
8:00 - program end and closing announcements

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Our event is being held at an awesome start-up incubator--Runway (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hJNR_Md4GU)--which is in the same building as Twitter, Yammer, and One Kings Lane!

DesignMap is supporting the Design Thinking community by sponsoring food and drinks. DesignMap (http://www.designmap.com/) is looking to work with unique Design Thinkers & Doers (like you!). If you are interested, be sure to say hi to them at the event or reach out to the group organizer.

PARKING: parking garage or metered street parking is available nearby (Civic Center garage is a good one). If you do park on the street be sure to read the street parking signs!

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION (recommended): Easiest to get here by BART or MUNI light rail or street cars.