Ladies That UX, womentalkdesign.com, and Boston IAI present: Women Who IA
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Join us at a fundraising event for World IA Day Boston 2018. This fundraiser will help pay for the free design conference being held on February 24th 2018 at HubSpot in Cambridge, MA. World IA Day Boston 2018 is an educational event full of talks with the theme of "IA for Good" and an all-star lineup of speakers.
This special evening fundraising event will feature women in design who will discuss organizing information for design solutions and the importance of this to what they do, and how we can organize the design culture to help end diversity issues and gender gaps in the workplace.
Please join us and help support a push to make the world a better place through design solutions.
Agenda:
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Networking
7:00 pm - 7:15 pm: Brian Durkin talks about World IA Day. Please donate: https://www.gofundme.com/dwzkzs
7:15 pm - 8:15 pm: A panel discussion with Kyle Soucy, Susan Mercer, and Amy Cueva about IA and design in their lives, and topics like design ethics, diversity, innovation, etc.
8:15 pm - 8:30 pm: Networking
About the speakers:
Kyle Soucy is the Founding Principal for Usable Interface and a recognized leader in the industry. Kyle has spent the last 15 years helping create intuitive interfaces for a variety of different products. She is a prolific writer, having numerous articles published in industry trade magazines, and a popular speaker with recent appearances at Big Design, CHI, IA Summit, SxSW, UXPA, WritersUA, Web 2.0 Expo, and World IA Day Boston in 2016 and 2017.
Susan Mercer is the Principal User Researcher at Insulet Corporation. Susan's specialties include: User Research, Requirements Definition, User Experience Design, Information Architecture, Usability Evaluation/Testing, Project Management
Amy Cueva is the Founder & Chief Experience Officer at MadPow. Amy believes that design can help improve the human condition. It was with that mission and vision that she founded MadPow in 2000 with Will Powley, and together they’ve created an award-winning agency that partners with clients to improve health, help people achieve financial wellbeing, help them learn, and connect.
Directions:
Please come to the Wayfair office, located at 4 Copley Place, 100 Huntington Avenue in Boston. If driving, you can park in our building or anywhere you can find a meter. The office is at the Mall. Once you have arrived at the mall, please take the elevator near Barneys New York to the “sky lobby” level and check in at security. Remember to bring an ID so you can get in.
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