PhillyCHI Meeting – John Ferrara – Fitter Critters: Designing a Persuasive Video Game, Thursday, May 24

Please join us as John Ferrara discusses how designers can build meaningful and persuasive game experiences. All PhillyCHI events are free and open to the public. *Space is limited. Registration required.* Date: Thursday, May 24, 2012 Time: 6:00PM – 8:00PM (Social time 6:00PM-6:30PM) Location: OSIsoft 1700 Market Street, Suite 2201 Philadelphia, PA 19103 Map: http://g.co/maps/9a6u5 [...]

PhillyCHI Open Studio: Electronic Ink – Thursday, May 17th

Date: Thursday, May 17, 2012 Time: 5:30PM – 7:30PM Location: Electronic Ink One South Broad Street, 19th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19107 Phone: 215-922-3800 Map: http://g.co/maps/yu5ry Parking: http://philapark.org/ RSVP – Nice but not necessary: phillychi@gmail.com Come socialize with design and research professionals at PhillyCHIʼs May open studio. Electronic Ink will open its doors to the design [...]

I-SITE and PhillyCHI: Tech and Design Themed Quizzo – Thursday, April 26th

Join I-SITE and PhillyCHI as we celebrate Philly Tech Week with a Quizzo custom made for folks who love technology and design. Date: Thursday, April 26, 2012 Time: 6:00PM – 9:00PM (Game starts at 7PM, but come early to get a table) Location: Trestle Inn 339 N. 11th Street (11th & Callowhill) Philadelphia, PA 19107 [...]

PhillyCHI 6th Annual Design Slam

Please join PhillyCHI and appRenaissance as we host the 6th Annual Design Slam. All PhillyCHI events are free and open to the public. **Space is limited. Registration required.** Date: Thursday, April 12, 2012 Time: 6:00PM – 8:45PM (The Slam starts promptly at 6:30PM) Location: appRenaissance 309 Cherry Street Philadelphia PA 19106 Phone: 888-784-6619 Map and [...]

PhillyCHI Meeting – Tomer Sharon – Achieving Failure: Alienating Stakeholders – Wednesday March 28th

Please join us as Tomer Sharon discusses how to effectively exclude stakeholders ensuring they ignore your research. All PhillyCHI events are free and open to the public. IMPORTANT NOTE: There is another private event occurring the same night at Razorfish Health on the 4th Floor. This event is unrelated to the PhillyCHI event happening on [...]

PhillyCHI | IDSA Philly Open Studio: Bresslergroup, Thursday March 15th

Join IDSA Philly, PhillyCHI and Bresslergroup as we gather to socialize, and talk design and cross-collaboration between interaction, user experience and industrial designers.

PhillyCHI Open Studio: messagefirst – Thursday, February 16th

Join PhillyCHI and messagefirst as we kick off a great year of design-themed socials.

Winter Social & Book Swap – Wednesday, Dec. 7th

Come celebrate and look back at the year with PhillyCHI at our winter social. You’ll have a chance to get into the giving spirit by bringing a UX book you’d like to swap for a new read. We’re doing a book swap this year and you could even walk out with two new reads for [...]

Oct. Event – Qualitative Research & Reframer.app

How are you currently conducting research? Do you have an office wall covered with sticky notes? Dozens of spreadsheets stored in several different locations? Do you find yourself cherry-picking only the “sweet” tidbits from your audience interviews? Join Matt Ventre as he challenges you to rethink your research methods and takes you through several all-too-common [...]

Sept. Event – Designing 'Fun' with Deb Gelman

As designers, we get a lot of elusive adjectives from clients, as they tell us what they want their sites, or apps, or software to be: “The site needs to be ‘cool,’” “It should be ‘exciting,’” “I want it to ‘pop.’” When we ask them to clarify, the answer we get back sounds a lot [...]