How Design Makes The World with Scott Berkun (+ networking)
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About this event
Do you wish more people understood good design and valued good designers? Or that your organization was more design mature?
Author Scott Berkun’s new book, How Design Makes The World promises to teach all the non-designers out there how to appreciate good design and why it matters in their daily lives.
It also gives us designers inspiring new stories, and a resource we can give to coworkers, bosses and friends to help them understand and appreciate what we do. He’ll share inspiring stories from the book and offer advice on how to make design more central to how your coworkers make decisions.
Agenda
- 11:30AM PDT Open Networking: meet other attendees 1:1 for several rounds of 5 minute discussions. Matching will be completely random!
- 12:00PM PDT Main Talk: meet Scott Berkun
Feel free to skip the networking part and join only the main talk!
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Speaker
Scott is a bestselling author and popular speaker on creativity, leading projects, culture, business and many other subjects. He’s a former interaction designer and project manager who worked for many years at Microsoft and WordPress.com.
He’s the author of eight books, including The Myths of Innovation, Confessions of a Public Speaker, and The Year Without Pants.
His work has appeared, in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Guardian, Wired magazine, USA Today, Fast Company, National Public Radio, CNN, NPR, MSNBC and other media.
His popular blog is at scottberkun.com and he tweets at @berkun.
Design by Anastasia Baula
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Organizer IxDA San Francisco
Organizer of How Design Makes The World with Scott Berkun (+ networking)
Daniela Busse and Anna Iurchenko lead the San Francisco Interaction Design Association. IxDA SF is the San Francisco chapter of the global Interaction Design Association (IxDA), with a membership of over 100,000 world-wide. Serving a community of over 10,000 designers from around the Bay Area, IxDA SF hosts a wide range of design-focused and social events throughout the year. We partner with great companies to host talks and activities that move interaction design forward and enable practitioners to advance skills, while also providing a platform for members to add their voices to the larger conversation about design practice. Above all, we seek to curate the sharing of ideas, perspectives, and inspiration that help make us all better and more aware thinkers and designers. Sign up to our newsletter by creating an account on http://ixdasf.org.
