Taco Tuesdays: A Product Design Talk Series Hosted by thoughtbot

Taco Tuesdays is a product design talk series hosted by thoughtbot in San Francisco.

Our office is located on the 7th floor at 85 2nd Street, San Francisco (the northeast corner of 2nd and Mission). Bike parking is available in the garage below the building.

Schedule:

• 6:15pm-7:00pm | Doors open, tacos and drinks, meet and greet
• 7:00-8:00pm | Speakers present their talk, and there is Q/A

Speakers:

We are excited to have two talks by former architects!

Should Designers SEO?

Adding another layer to the “Should designers…” debate, we’ll share the+ story of how we took a small design project to number one on Google with+ over 250,000 page views per month (and growing), divulging our hacker-strategy and pulling back the curtain on the dark arts of SEO.

Alex Dixon is a partner at Dixon & Moe,+ a design and software consultancy building websites and digital products in San Francisco. Previously he studied architecture at MIT and co-founded Monograph.io, which just relaunched as a website builder for architects.

Building Data Visualizations for Storytelling and Decision Making

What is data visualization, what current technologies are being used to build data visualization, and how this work impacts decision making at Uber.

Shan He is a data artist, coder at Uber, and architect. She builds data visualizations that are elegant and informative, revealing the hidden insights behind the numbers and coordinates. She believes that information can be beautiful, and that the next era of designers will use data as their medium.

Check out the Taco Tuesdays site, and view our past events here!