Join IxDA NYC and Mastercard CX & Design for a night of rooftop fun and conversation.

Come join IxDA NYC and hosts Jess Greco, Director Product Experience Design, and Tim Schmidt, Director Design Operations for a panel discussion and evening of rooftop nibbles. They’ll be joined by several members of the team, and will touch on how Mastercard designs beyond just credit cards, where they stand on financial inclusion, and how they invest in their people through their CX & Design Guild. 

Afterward we’ll have access to the rooftop, to enjoy the open air and socialize with new and familiar faces, while also getting a peek at Mastercard’s innovation center. Join us to watch a lovely NY skyline sunset while enjoying some food and drinks on their rooftop!

Who's it for?

Anyone within the NYC design community. We can’t wait to see you there!

When         

Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Doors open at 6:00 p.m.
The panel begins at 6:10 p.m.
Event close at 9:00 p.m.
Food and drinks will be served

About our panelists

Tara Petrucci, Director of Product Experience Design

Amha Mogus, Director of Product Experience Design

Alli Mooney, Vice President of Content Design

About our hosts

Jess Greco, Director Product Experience Design

Tim Schmidt, Director Design Operations

Where       

Mastercard Tech Hub
150 5th Ave. FL 12
New York, NY 10011

(You will need to show ID and vaccination card to enter the building)

We’re looking for volunteers! If you have a passion for photography and own a DSLR camera, we’d love to offer you a free ticket to document the night. If you’re interested, please email us some samples of your work (portfolio or IG) at nyc@ixda.org.

Accommodation Policy: IxDA NYC is dedicated to fostering inclusion. Please send all requests for disability accommodation to nyc@ixda.org no later than August 26th.

IxDA NYC and argodesign are excited to bring you an evening conversation with research legend Jan Chipchase. Bring your questions about planning and executing field research!

In this frank talk Jan will share the challenges of running projects where designers, researchers and other team members need to reach peak creativity. It will draw on running commercial and social impact projects, across a range of clients, often operating in challenging environments.

The talk will be followed by a Q&A to draw out the experience in the room.

Who's it for?

Anyone who is currently practicing research methods and wants to learn more.

When         

Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Doors open at 6:00 p.m.
Talk begins at 6:30 p.m.
Food and drinks will be served

About Our Speaker

Jan Chipchase is the founder of Studio D, a discreet research, design and strategy consultancy based out of Tokyo. We help organizations identify and define the north star of new products and services. Every year we run experiments and a side project—this year’s is to run trekking expeditions in Afghanistan.

About Our Host

argodesign is a product design consultancy, growth partner to entrepreneurs, and incubator of new experiences. Founded in Austin, TX in 2014 and helmed by renowned design leaders Mark Rolston and Mark Gauger, argo approaches technology from a human perspective—where it can add value, and how it can positively affect the human experience. With studios in New York, Austin, Amsterdam, and Munich, argo brings together experienced designers, expert technologists, strategic thinkers, and passionate makers. To learn more, please visit www.argodesign.com.

Where       

argodesign
285 N 6th St, 4th floor
Brooklyn, NY 11211

Hiring Design Professionals? Join our panel discussion for an inside look at how seasoned Design Leaders are doing this today. 

About this Event

It seems like no one can avoid being affected by the Great Resignation; the design and tech world is no exception. Hiring was never easy even for seasoned leaders and managers, and now, the cutthroat market makes design and research hiring even more difficult. 

This is a must-attend event for anyone hiring design and research professionals, from new orgs building their design practice to hiring managers looking to scale up their operations. Join us and learn how the most successful design hiring managers grow their teams. 

And if you’re looking for a new role yourself, get an inside look into what matters most to hiring managers, to leverage in your job search.

You’ll receive a Zoom link to access the event once you’ve completed your registration.

Agenda

• 7:00 - 7:15pm Introductions

• 7:15 - 8:00pm Panel discussion

• 8:00 - 8:30pm Open Q&A

About Our Speakers

Amy Santee (she/her) is a Career Strategist and Coach for UX professionals who want to design their careers with intention and bring their good to the world. She loves partnering with individuals to build confidence and courage, develop a unique professional brand, find jobs they love, and show up as leaders. Prior to coaching, Amy built a career as a UX researcher, working on end-to-end product development and strategy with all flavors of organizations, including eBay, Lowe's, General Motors, and the City of Portland. In her free time, she enjoys weight training, birding, gardening, and exploring the outdoors of the Pacific Northwest.

Jessie Tseng (she/her) is Director of Product Design at Flatiron Health where she leads a team supporting Flatiron in accelerating cancer research. Her team's mission is to shorten the distance between Flatiron's data and cancer researchers to help answer some of the most important questions in oncology. In her spare time, Jessie makes functional ceramics in Brooklyn. 

OD Ntuk (he/him) is a Product Design Manager at Meta AI. As a multi-faceted user experience design leader with more than 5 years leading and managing design teams. He has a track-record of hiring and developing talent through coaching and mentorship. Prior to joining Meta, OD served as a design leader at Kaplan Test Prep and Viacom, and spent a decade consulting in design, product management, and engineering. OD enjoys solving complex user problems and tinkering with new technology. He lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife and two sons.

Kassie Chaney (she/her) is Director of User Research and Content Design at LinkedIn, and previously led UXR for LinkedIn’s hiring, job seeking, and learning products. Over the past 5.5 years, Kassie led UXR recruitment and hiring, growing the team from 10 to 40+ for consumer and B2B products. She is passionate about developing the next generation of research and content design practitioners and scaling research, with a goal of creating more empathy and less distance between decision makers and the people they build for. Previously, Kassie worked in market research and education policy analysis, and has degrees in Psychology and Sociology. Outside of work she likes to hike and is working on improving her baking skills.

Join IxDA NYC for an evening of insight about recruitment trends: what to expect as a job seeker, how to be competitive as a hiring manager.

The hiring market has remained strong, most of 2021 and we’re seeing design talent continue to move from one job to another.

Whether you are a job seeker preparing to enter the job market yourself, or a hiring manager trying to navigate a competitive market, join us for an evening with Jared Tredly, Director from the design recruiting firm Bamboo Crowd.

Jared will share his insights on market trends and forecasts of what to expect as we move into 2022. He’ll share his experience as a recruitment professional – and highlight trends he’s seeing in hiring processes: timelines, titles, salaries, and design exercises. As well as the successful ways both job seekers and hiring companies have stood out from the crowd.

Topics covered

• Job market trends

• Job seekers: what to expect in the interview process

• Hiring managers: how to be competitive

You’ll also have a chance to ask Jared any questions that might be more specific to your circumstance.

We hope that by the end of the night you’ll walk away with a clearer understanding of how to plan your next step. Whether it be some new ideas and strategies for approaching the interview and recruitment process or gaining more confidence in what to look for in your next role.

Agenda

7:00 pm Welcome
7:05 pm Talk begins
7:45 pm Q&A
8:00 pm Closing remarks

About our speaker
Jared Tredly (Director - Bamboo Crowd)

From Australia to NYC, I’ve been working with Designers and building design teams for the last 10 years. I’ve been fortunate as a recruiter to purely focus on Design and work with Designers at every level from Grad to Chief Exp. Officers. I’m a huge proponent of the UX community and supporting it the way it’s supported me! I love connecting designers with each other, introducing mentors, reviewing folios, and really empowering designers to get the most out of their careers. I’m uniquely placed to be in the mechanics of Design careers – changing jobs, getting promotions, and really driving your design career forward – I’m all about it!

This Year’s Theme: Solidarity and Transformation

2020 opened the doors for interaction design to change how we work, connect and live. For World Interaction Design Day 2021 we’ll explore how we adapt to a changing world, rally around new ideas and find ways to thrive despite all the challenges.

Here’s a few example thoughts around this year’s theme:

• How is your work ethos or focus changing? What entrenched assumptions have you revisited?

• How are your collaboration processes and/or tools different now?

• What changes in our ways of working do you want to stick around? What fringe benefits/consequences are you hoping to capture?

• Has 2020 presented new audiences for your work? Is this new perspective affecting your practice as we look to the future?

IxDA NYC invites you to our first AMA — Ask our team of designers, researchers, and managers anything about the practice, about how they started their careers, and advice on how to start yours. We welcome all young designers, new to the field and newly graduated — though the event is open to all.

Topics could include:

• Finding a job

• Advice for your first job

• Specializing in specific industries

• What it’s like to work at an agency

• Relocating to NYC

• Working remote as a designer

• Designer specialists vs designer generalists

• Portfolios, résumés, and web sites

• Building your network

• Working with clients

• Literally anything

The time is yours! We look forward to having fun, discussing the industry, and talking about your future!

What happens when user research intersects with stakeholder opinions, unexpected outcomes, logistics, and the occasional fireworks? 

Join IxDA NYC on March 16 for a new book launch on applied user research: Research Practice: Perspectives from UX Researchers in a Changing Field. Author Gregg Bernstein will join editor Nicole Fenton, and contributors Snigdha Diehl and Lindsay Ferris for an hour-long interactive discussion on the day-to-day of the practice. In this online event, we’ll capture the wide range of experiences and challenges that researchers face in the field, and how they share their work to influence stakeholders and products.

Being an interactive event, think about your questions early so we can help shape the discussion. Send them to us at nyc@ixda.org or on Twitter @ixdanyc. The Zoom chat will also be open for questions during the event.

Free tickets and open to the global IxDA community.

Tuesday, March 16, 2021
7:00 PM to 8:20 PM Eastern Time

7:00 - 7:05: Arrival
7:05 - 7:20: Introduction, book and panel
7:20 - 8:00: Interactive panel discussion
8:00 - 8:20: Open questions

Gregg Bernstein (Author; Lead User Researcher, Webflow)
Nicole Fenton (Editor; Senior Content Strategist, Nava)
Snigdha Diehl (Contributor; Senior UX Researcher, HubSpot)
Lindsay Ferris (Contributor; Senior User Researcher, OkCupid)

Join IxDA NYC and Women Talk Design for a workshop to learn how to design your talk topic and get started in public speaking.

Do you want to start giving talks at conferences and events but feel overwhelmed? Where do you start? What are you actually qualified to speak about? If you’ve been looking for help finding a talk topic, this workshop is for you.

Connect with your “why” and turn that “why” into a field of potential topics for you to speak about with confidence. Then, learn how to generate ideas for specific talks for years to come out of the same set of building blocks. We’ll show you how to bring other people into your process, brainstorm potential talk topics with others, and receive feedback from your peers in a safe, supportive environment. 

The best speakers know how to generate ideas over and over again, and develop those ideas with feedback from others. By the end of this workshop you will be able to do the same with confidence. 

Women Talk Design is an organization on a mission to see more diverse speakers on stage. In partnership with IxDA NYC, this event is open to everyone.

During this 2 hour workshop, attendees will: 

• Get introduced to a framework for designing presentations

• identify their personal why and how that shapes the expertise they will share

• Explore what topics they can speak and write about

• Receive feedback on their ideas

• Get access to resources for continued learning

You’ll receive a Zoom link to access the event once you’ve completed your registration. 

Please be aware that this is an interactive workshop. We recommend you be in a space you're comfortable talking and interacting with the group, to have the best possible experience.

Whether speaking at a conference or presenting your work in a team meeting, public speaking is a critical skill for designers. And now, more than ever before, we need to be able to present online.

Feel intimidated? You’re not alone. Join Women Talk Design for a workshop to learn tools and techniques to set you up for success next time you need to present remotely.

How should you prepare? How can you keep your audience engaged? What happens if something goes wrong? We’ll answer these questions and more. Come with your questions and be prepared to participate.

Women Talk Design is an organization on a mission to see more diverse speakers on stage. In partnership with IxDA NYC, this event is open to everyone.

You’ll leave this workshop with:

• A framework for crafting engaging presentations — both in-person and online

• Tips for preparing before you present

• Tools to help you calm your nerves before you speak

• Techniques you can implement to project confidence while on camera

You’ll receive a Zoom link to access the event once you’ve completed your registration.

Agenda

• 7:00pm Welcome

• 7:10pm Workshop start

• 8:10pm Q&A

• 8:30pm Wrap up

About Our Speaker

Danielle Barnes, CEO of Women Talk Design

Danielle is passionate about empowering designers and technologists at all stages in their career. She co-founded and organizes Austin Design Week, and prior to Women Talk Design was an early employee of tech education company General Assembly.

As we look to the future through the lens of the new decade, we want to demonstrate how interaction design mines different contexts and geographies to improve our shared human condition. This year’s IxDD theme is Culture and Sustainability. This year’s theme challenges the interaction design community to explore their impact on culture and sustainability in their work, workplace, communities, and beyond. Questions that came up relating to this topic include:

• What does it mean to create a culture of sustainability?

• In our increasingly interconnected global community, how do we enable local cultures to be resilient and sustainable?

• What are our accountabilities as designers to ensure we are appropriately using our planet’s resources?

The theme is inspired by UNESCO’s Key Ideas around culture and sustainable development: “If achieving sustainability is first and foremost about making an appropriate use of the planet’s resources, then culture must be at the centre of our development strategies, since cultures frame people’s relationship to others in their society and the world around them, including the natural environment, and condition their behaviours.”

Despite the things that we can’t do this Summer, we can still hang out and meet new designers from the NYC community. Join us for a relaxed evening of spending time together, serendipitous conversations, and BYO🍺🍸🍹🍦🧉🥃. 

We will break into small groups, so that you can get to catch up with familiar faces and spend time meeting new folks. Each group will also have a surprise guest from the design community to keep the conversation flowing. 

There’s so much talent and good vibes within the IxDA NYC community. We can’t wait to see you there.

You’ll receive a Zoom link to access the event once you’ve completed your registration.

Agenda

7:00 – 7:15 Welcome

7:15 – 7:30 Warm up

7:30 – 8:15 Mixer

8:15 – 8:30 Wrap up

The global pandemic and its resulting economic downturn and social unrest are only just a couple of the enormous societal forces impacting our lives and careers today. 

It’s a crazy time with an unclear path ahead, right? 

Talk It Out will be an evening of stories, speakers, and open conversations about the current work environment; what’s scary, what's positive, and what you can learn from your peers in the design community to find stability as well as opportunities for growth.

IxDA NYC members will share their own personal stories, followed by two amazing speakers. Jared Tredly, Director from the design recruiting firm Salt, and Gaylan Sankey, Principal Strategist, HR at ServiceNow, will offer their perspectives on the current employment landscape and the silver linings they've seen. 

Topics we'll cover:

• Preparing for change and getting closure

• What it’s like to get laid off and how to deal with those feelings

• Finding your next gig and assessing opportunities

• How to stay connected to your community

• Keeping your skills on point

Who is this for?

Talk It Out is for anyone who is worried they might lose their job, has recently lost their job, or is simply dreaming of making a career change in these uncertain times. 

By the end of the night you’ll walk away with some new ideas and strategies to manage stress, confidently search for a new gig (or help keep and improve the one you have), and possibly some new connections in the design community.

Agenda

• 7:05-7:20pm Opening remarks and member stories

• 7:20-7:45 Speaker presentations

• 7:45-8:15 Open conversation / Q&A

• Closing remarks

About Our Speakers

Gaylan Sankey, Principal Strategist, HR, ServiceNow

“Leveraging HR as a partner for success during times of transition.” Employee Experience Evangelist with over 25 years’ experience in all areas of HR, including employee experience, HR shared services, people management, program management, remote workforce, dispersed teams, process improvement, benefits & compensation, employee development, payroll, and research & analytics, primarily in technology-based industries. 

Jared Tredly, Director, Salt

From Australia to NYC, I’ve been working with Designers and building design teams for the last 10 years. I’ve been fortunate as a recruiter to purely focus on Design and work with Designers at every level from Grad to Chief Exp. Officers. I’m a huge proponent of the UX community and supporting it the way it’s supported me! I love connecting designers with each other, introducing mentors, reviewing folios and really empowering designers to get the most out of their career. I’m uniquely placed to be in the mechanics of Design careers – changing jobs, getting promotions and really driving your design career forward – I’m all about it!

Please note: While IxDA NYC records some of our events to make them available to a larger audience, we will not be recording this event in order to better foster a more safe and open dialogue for our attendees.

You’ll receive a Zoom link to access the event once you’ve completed your registration.

It's a brave new world out there.

The once emerging trend of distributed work has now become a universal phenomenon overnight. With it came a lot of questions about how we design and lead and influence the decisions that can make or break the quality of what's delivered.

In this panel discussion, we’ll be tackling some of these questions with some extraordinarily experienced leaders who have incredible breadth of experience across Product Management & Design Leadership.

We’ll be talking about remote work and workplace cultures, how to create influence and lead in a remote environment, and how the way we do work may shift in the future. The discussion will be followed by Q&A to help you navigate this time within your company – bring your questions.

Radhika Nayak, SVP of Product at Kinesso
Radhika has led product teams at companies across the financial, media, advertising, and education industries that take a more traditional approach to office-based work.

Michele Tepper, Senior Design Manager at Salesforce
Michele is an experienced design leader who has led design teams at remote-native and remote-friendly organizations, including Heroku and Digital Ocean.

Donna Lichaw, Independent Leadership and Executive Coach
Donna has helped leaders in organizations of all sizes develop their abilities to lead with courage across in-person and remote work environments.

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Whether you lead design from the front or the back, this interactive panel with Tom Greever will supercharge your design communication game.

Whether you’re a titled manager or, like many designers, leading from behind, you know that good designs have to be communicated and executed well in order to make a real impact... We’ve gotten wind that this might have gotten a little harder for some of you in the past month or two.

We think this is a great time to revisit the foundations of what makes good design communications in the first place with one of the foremost experts in the field. To that end, we’re excited to invite you to an interactive conversation about communicating design with Tom Greever.

Tom Greever is the former VP of Design at Handled and also the author of the best-selling book Articulating Design Decisions. Tom will be sharing his expertise on pushing design forward through communications and getting buy-in from your partners.

He’ll also be hosting an extended live Q&A with the audience where we’ll hear the community’s stories of successes and learnings in communicating Design. Bring your questions and challenges, and we’ll do our best to help.

You'll receive a link to the Zoom once you've completed registration.

Agenda

• 7:00 - 7:15pm Introductions

• 7:15 - 8:00pm Tom Greever on Articulating Design Decisions

• 8:00 - 8:30pm Q&A 

About our Speaker
Tom Greever helps companies and organizations design better products, apps, and software. He is an independent consultant and has worked with both small startups and large corporations across many different industries. You can hire him to design your app, train your team, or speak at your next event. He lives in Illinois with his wife and five kids. He is probably cleaning up the house right now.

Designers love their side hustles: fashion, art, photography, start-ups, and stickers. Let’s do something different this April — a zoom call to meet a few New York-area designers who make super interesting things outside of their day jobs. They’ll share their work and origin story and you’ll have time to ask questions. Grab a glass of wine, crawl into your disinfected Eames Lounge Chair, and join us for this Virtual Edition™ of IxDA NYC. 

Ty Saunders, Founder of It’s an Honest Living

Madeline Vu, Founder of Extracurricular

Adam Zoltowski, Media Artist

Emily Baron, Film Photographer

Tuesday Evening, April 14

7:00 PM to 8:20 PM

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Women Talk Design is on a mission to see a more diverse group of speakers on stage.

Our Lightning Talks event offers an opportunity for new and experienced speakers to practice a short talk, in front of a safe supportive audience.

We invite you to be that supportive audience! Join us for an evening of talks on a range of topics in design, tech, career, and life.

The evening will kick off with an opportunity to meet others in attendance, before diving into the talks. Speakers have been invited because they are delivering a talk for the first time, testing out new material, or looking for practice before presenting their talk in front of a larger audience. We invite the audience to be present and supportive, learn something new, and engage with the community. You'll also have an opportunity to provide feedback to the speakers and continue conversations after the talks.

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At Design Driven NYC on Wednesday, January 29th, we're thrilled to host our next edition of Design Driven with leaders from four fantastic companies. This month's speakers include:

• Corey Manicone, Founder & CEO, Zuul Kitchens
A place for ghost kitchens to call home

• Adam Baitch, Head of Product, Atom Finance
A modern fintech platform enabling the next generation of financial knowledge

• Ellen Haller, Principal Director & Head of Design, Accenture/Fjord
A global design and innovation consultancy

• Arden Klemmer & Sabrina Fonseca, Director of Product Design & Design Strategy (respectively), &Partners
A product design and development studio focused on a human-centered approach

Develop your self-awareness to drive authentic connections in a workshop with Ingrid Dahl, Director of Learning Experiences at Capital One.

IxDA NYC is dedicated to developing the leadership skills of our design community. Our November session is a deep dive workshop to develop those leadership skills and build the self-awareness necessary to thrive in the workplace.

In this two-hour workshop, explore how to turn a difficult conversation into a reflective, goal-oriented opportunity starting with your own self-awareness. Participants will leave with strategies to share their fears, goals, and be curious about the experience of others in order to connect more authentically.

Special thanks to ZocDoc, our host for the evening.

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Designers and technologists have become increasingly aware of the ways the things they create are used... and sometimes misused. We've assembled a cast of characters to tell you stories about ethics in action from across the industry: artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and voice interface design. Join us to hear their stories and discuss ways to create more trust in the experiences we are all designing.

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Scott Belsky, Chief Product Officer, Adobe

• Welcome to World Interaction Design Day 2019

Mark Webster, Director of Product, Adobe

• Trust & Responsibility in Voice Interface Design

Molly Wright Steenson, Ph.D., K&L Gates Associate Professor in Ethics and Computational Technologies, Carnegie Mellon University

• The Accidental Ethicist. Many of us find that we're navigating the difficult waters of ethics and tech that seem bigger than our britches and more than maybe we'd expected. How does a designer navigate this terrain?

Milena Pribic, Advisory Designer, Artificial Intelligence Design, IBM Design Program Office

• Defining and Designing Healthy Relationships. What defines a healthy relationship when one of us is an AI? In this talk, we’ll translate our understanding of human relationships to the design of AI interactions. We’ll look at how we can embrace feedback from our users to support long-term, meaningful relationships. We’ll go over the organizational practices that allow us to discover and scale these insights. We can’t design for relationships without an intentional focus on trust and transparency. Ethical principles must be woven into every aspect of our design process in order to be reflected back into the world.

Max Whitney, Software Engineering & Information Security Consultant

• User Oriented Security: Only You Can Prevent This Security Wasteland. Twelve million patients’ data compromised in Quest Diagnostics breach. Twenty-one million government background checks exposed in U.S. Office of Personnel Management breach. One hundred million people’s information released in Capital One breach. Do you look upon our collective works and despair? Fear not for the winds are changing, and your work will be on the forefront of that change. Combining the well-weathered practices of design thinking and threat modeling, this talk presents a model for User Oriented Security which you can apply in your next design sprint.

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