🍃🌎🌷 Spring Design Talks at Small Planet BK Navy Yard 🛥🚴‍♀️🚀

*Event FULL and RSVPs closed! Attendee list has been submitted to Small Planet building security for admission to enter (Full name + Email). Please doublecheck the list first for your name and status before attending as we had to move some folks to "Not Going/Waitlist" status if above info had not been provided 🙏

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You will receive an email around 4pm for entry passes for those accepted as "Going", please check your inboxes/spams!

Option 1: Enter at Building 77 @ 141 Flushing Ave.

• Enter Building 77 and walk straight through. At the turnstiles, scan your visitor pass to get into the Brooklyn Navy Yard and exit Building 77.
• After you exit Building 77, Dock 72 will be to your left, walk to Dock 72 to proceed to Small Planet.

Option 2: Enter at the Navy Yard gate at Flushing Ave and Clinton Ave

• Scan your visitor passes to get in, walk down Clinton Ave and Dock 72 will also be on your left.
• Walk to Dock 72 to proceed to Small Planet.

For more information on accessing the Brooklyn Navy Yard, see: https://brooklynnavyyard.org/visit/directions-map

Check out the Visitors Map for other entrances: https://navy-yard-production-new.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/8eMnkVTK4yTuLasxNYYNmxL1

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Join us for a night of talks and networking hosted and sponsored by our friends at Small Planet in the Brooklyn Navy Yard!

Small Planet designs and develops digital experiences that engage, inspire, and improve lives. We create impactful digital solutions for e-commerce, streaming entertainment, health & wellness, enterprise, and much more.

Schedule:
6:30pm: Check-in, grab pizza and drinks
7pm: Event kickoff and intros
7:10pm: Talk 1: Speculative Design Futures by Christie Pedersen
7:25pm: Break
7:30pm: Talk 2: Why Good Designers Don't Get Hired by Hang Xu
7:50pm: Continue mingles until 8:30pm

▶️── 🔈 Talk 1 ───▶️
Speculative Design Futures
by Christie Pedersen, Senior Experience Designer @ Small Planet

Small Planet imagines future states of industries or experiences we are curious about, exercising our rapid prototyping muscles and asking, "What if?" So, we took on Project 2050, a climate initiative based on the idea that 2050 is when 90% of the world's countries have committed to being Net Zero. Our design team split up into three groups, each tackling different speculative projects that show how design can help a (rapidly) changing world.

Christie is a senior experience designer at Small Planet. She believes that empathy is a requirement for successful design and is passionate about the power of interdisciplinary collaboration. Prior to working at Small Planet Christie has worked for a variety of agencies and start-ups, clients include Bristol Myers Squibb, Fitwel, and Penn Interactive.

@smallplanetdigital

▶️── 🔈 Talk 2 ───▶️
Why Good Designers Don't Get Hired?
by Hang Xu, Product Designer Turned Talent Agent @ Collective Supply

As a designer-turned-recruiter, Hang has been helping senior designers and researchers land jobs in the current challenging job market. In this talk, we will touch on:

1. The current state of the UX job market
2. How the layoffs have affected the demand for specific design skills
3. Deconstruct the early stage application screening process used to evaluate UX talent

The outcome of this talk is for everyone to gain key actionable insights on how to construct portfolios, resumes, and LinkedIn profiles to make them significantly more hire-able during a down-market. Senior designers and researchers with 5+ years of experience will find the most value but early career designers may leverage some of the same strategies and techniques.

Prior to founding an ethical recruiting agency called Collective Supply in the midst of the worst tech layoff in decades, Hang was a staff UX designer at Boston Dynamics and designed the user interface for their latest robot. You can read his writing on on design strategy, activism in tech, and salary negotiation techniques on his LinkedIn.

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