Innovation and Design Thinking Meetup

September Meetup Theme: Prototyping in 3 Acts

For our September Meetup, we will be rolling up our sleeves and exploring different exercises and ways to brings ideas to life, and go from concepts on post-it notes to testable prototypes. Through Building to Think, Building to Learn, and Building to Test, we will show how you can bias towards action and use prototyping approaches to flesh out your ideas, get feedback from users, and design tests to gather metrics and data that help validate user desirability for your idea.

As always, come prepared to roll up your sleeves and dive into an experiential workshop with your fellow Meetup members, and meet other innovators from across Seattle and beyond who are passionate about bringing human centered design and creativity into their life, workplace and communities!

Special thanks to our sponsors this month: Capital One, projekt202, and REI.

Meetup Schedule:

6-6:30 Community Building and Networking

6:30 Introductions and kickoff workshop

6:45-8PM Prototyping Workshop

8PM Retro

8:10-8:30 More networking and mingling time

Directions:

222 Yale Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109 (map (https://www.google.com/maps?daddr=222+Yale+Ave+N+Seattle+WA+98109))

There is parking available in the garage beneath REI which is accessed on Yale Ave N. You can find information about rates and nearby lots at Parkopedia (here (http://en.parkopedia.com/parking/garage/rei/98109/seattle/?arriving=201609211430&leaving=201609211630)).

The Room:

The Meetup will be held in the North Room inside the REI Flagship store. You can access this room via the elevator located in the garage or from inside the store. You can also walk through the store and up the stairs. We'll be on the third floor. Walk through the kids section and turn right at World Wraps. If you get lost ask where World Wraps or the bathrooms are and we'll be just down the hall!

This location is ADA Accessible.