Stop the Suck! Designing Virtual Experiences in a Physically Distanced World I

How many virtual meetings or working sessions have you attended during the Great Pause and thought:

• What’s the point of this session?
• Why am I here? Wait, when can I leave?
• Please stop talking.
• How much longer?

Everyone we know can count a few....

So we decided to set up three (3) conversation rounds in May to explore our options: how might we design better virtual experiences?

You are THE TRIBE that has the knowledge!

Let’s have some one (1) hour virtual design chats and start a different conversation. Let’s plant seeds that we can bring to life now and in a post-pandemic world. It’s time to grow a better crop of virtual experiences.

Your hosts are facilitators, but in this setting we will have our design thinking hats on to jam with you. Over the course of our conversations, we’d like to:

• Understand what isn’t working around virtual experiences for our community
• Learn what is working and how we might accelerate it
• Reconnect with each other around our common bond as design thinkers

We have ideas. We have implemented strategies. We are designing new processes. And we want to explore them with you. Not only that, we know your ideas will take the conversation to the next level. Jump in, share them, and let’s make virtual experiences better together!

Please note a unique Zoom link will be provided weekly to registrants.

Meet Your Hosts

Dr. Jo Golden
Jo designs and facilitates meaningful learning experiences in universities, organizations, and communities. As an educator and service designer, she combines strategy, human-centered practice, theory, and sensemaking to understand and communicate stakeholder needs. Oh yeah--and to DO things that matter with design.

By day, Jo is the Service Design Director for Fjord at Accenture Federal Services and teaches Design Leadership at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). On her off time, you might spot her in the community using Design Thinking tools to collaborate with all sorts of people--solving wicked problems and co-creating a world she wants to live in.

Erin Nicole Gordon
Erin is a professional facilitator and strategist that specializes in visual methods to solve complex challenges and craft experiences that impact. With a decade plus of consulting and facilitation experience both in-person and virtually, Erin brings more than a few success stories intertwined with best practices learned from the scars that teach us most.

In relentless pursuit to deliver excellence through results that push the creative edge, Erin founded Wayfind in 2016 to intentionally focus on inspiring a world of purposeful, practical creativity. Since its founding, Erin has been dedicated to startup life: entrepreneuring into a new frontier that has her and a team co-creating, coaching and constantly learning everyday. Check out thewayfind.com.