UX for Good – Chicago, IL (2011)

“This approach seems far-fetched at first. Friday afternoon I sat in on the CeaseFire team as they began dissecting their challenge. A common discussion thread was “who are we as designers to tell these organizations what they should do differently?” As the team dove into their chalenge and learned about how people involved with CeaseFire [...]

UX for Good superstar designer Chiara Ogan gives us an insider’s look to the work of the team tackling urban violence at UXXU 2011. “Our team spent the 14 or so hours we had trying to better understand the problems that CeaseFire has, how they work, and what kind of help they need and want. [...]

UX for Good is a wildly ambitious effort to design systemic solutions for some of the most vexing social challenges. Top user experience and visual designers convene to tackle problems that matter in the first-ever design competition of its kind. Assisting the designers are executives from the leading non-profit organizations addressing those challenges and some of [...]

Participants in UX for Good 2011 chose the Public Education team as the winner of this year’s jury prize. Congratulations to the Public Education team members… Carolyn Chandler Vena Chitturi Chris Courtney Claire Goff Makoto Kern Dan Leu Victor Short Pete Simon Philip Weber Chelsea Winkel Special thanks to non-profit experts Stephanie Pace Marshall and [...]

Judging by the blizzard of emails, posts and requests to participate that came in in the days immediately after UX for Good 2011, we’re on to something here. We will post comments we’re receiving from live and virtual participants over the next few weeks. We’re also planning to sell memorabilia from the event and hold [...]

The next UX for Good will be May 2-4, 2012 in New Orleans. Founders Jason Ulaszek and Jeff Leitner announced at the closing ceremonies of UX for Good 2011 that an expanded group of designers, non-profits and innovators would gather to tackle challenges on the Gulf Coast. Talks have already begun with social service agencies [...]

UX for Good designer Riley Graham shares photos and notes from inside the Community Mental Health team room. See more from Riley.

There’s a major client meeting going on at the Adler School of Professional Psychology. User experience consultants from major companies like Groupon, OfficeMax, Sears, Allstate, and Cars.com are there. As well as hot digital properties like Manifest Digital, Centralis, and KeyLimeTie. Who is this mysterious client who calls upon the help of so much collaborative [...]

As the StreetWise challenge group prepares their presentation for the other teams, I thought it would be interesting to ask a few members of the group about the challenges they face in the last 30 minutes… Kevin Mech (KeyLimeTie) was working out the spatial element of the reveal. Kevin: “You can’t really center the presentation [...]

Hey, all! Sorry it’s been so quiet from the room the last couple hours, but this team is so fantastic—they have treated me as a full member and included me in the process. I happen to have a degree in Psychology and am about to get my life coach certification, so I am uniquely qualified [...]