UX for Good – Chicago, IL (2011)

One of the social challenges tackled at UX4Good was the reinvention of the American high school. The group that considered the challenge collaborated with education design initiative The Third Teacher to imagine how school works (or, just as often, doesn’t work) from the point of view of students. Now one of our UX4Good alumni has [...]

Like any well-intentioned effort, UX for Good has stirred up a few critics. A couple have spoken out publicly; a couple of others have posted critiques under pseudonyms. UXXU 2011 designer Cia Romano takes on one of those critics, point-by-point. “I would offer that this change of perspective is exactly what the ‘idealists’ at UX for [...]

Carlo Garcia is an intriguing guy. In his words: “My name is Carlo and my mission is to give to charity every day for a year. This mission is built on a belief that you don’t have to be rich in dollars to make a difference, you only need to be rich in spirit. I [...]

Ed Chen – a graduate student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – gives us a look inside one of the teams with only 24 hours to make sense of an impossible challenge. “I felt that quite often, 7 or 8 of the 9 agreed on a direction and wanted to move [...]

“It’s a busy day here at The Adler School Chicago campus as we continue hosting the two-day UX for Good–an unprecedented effort bringing together 40 top UX designers, 10 visual designers, leaders from the nonprofit world, and a team of eager volunteers to reimagine the way we meet social challenges. “Among the five challenges UX teams [...]

“Chicago is an awesome town and, importantly, it’s not San Francisco! I believe the dedicated technorati of SF need to branch out from the Valley and learn from practitioners elsewhere. This seemed like a perfect occasion for that very thing, even more so than an Interaction’11 or IA Summit (both of which I’m bummed to be [...]

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

Victor Short Day job: UX Strategist, Allstate Description: How Victor explains his UX job: “Make web sites or applications easier to use based on contextual information.” Superpower: Mind bullets