UX for Good – Chicago, IL (2011)

As UX for Good founders Jeff Leitner and Jason Ulaszek prepared our first event, they carefully considered what physical environment might best stimulate the creativity of the user experience designers who were coming from around the world. “We needed an amazing place to have this event,” said Trung Le, principal at Cannon Design, a UX for [...]

The public image of entrepreneurship is pretty shiny. We imagine smartly dressed young men and women drawing things on white boards, making pitches to venture capitalists, ringing the bell at Wall Street following their initial public offering. But of course real entrepreneurship is nothing like that. Starting a business or other enterprise not only requires [...]

From today’s Mashable write-up on UX for Good… “The idea is not to create a website or code a seamless graphic, but to use the skill sets of a UX designer to analyze social issues. “They’re really good systems designers, I don’t know if they knew that,” says Jeff Leitner, the founder and dean of [...]

Beginning Saturday morning, everybody can plug into UX for Good – for live video of the event interviews with notables in Chicago and around the country live bloggers embedded with each team opportunities to weigh in with your thoughts, questions and ideas For the full experience, come right here to www.ux4good.com. For just video, www.facebook.com/ux4good orwww.livestream.com/ux4good. We [...]

Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley sent a letter today to UX4Good, wishing us well and thanking the designers for their coming work. The letter reads: “As Mayor and on behalf of the City of Chicago, I welcome everyone participating in the UX4Good design competition. Featuring five design challenges focused on unemployment, urban violence, public education, [...]

Sure, at first it was unsettling. But now I’m proud there are folks out there who think UX4Good and UXXU 2011 are ill-advised. Their reasonings strike me as a bit suspect, but it’s a free country. Our favorite criticisms to-date: Calling it UX for Good suggests that all other UX is bad. Really? I’m guessing [...]

Way back in February 2009, Manifest Digital sponsored the interaction ’09 conference,  organized by the Interaction Design Association. Jim Jacoby, Manifest’s founder and chief experience officer, gave this address on “UX Designers and Business Leaders.” So? Well, my UX friends, Jim’s address is kind of the rationale for UX for Good and UXXU 2011. And, funny [...]