UX for Good – Chicago, IL (2011)

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 [...]

Postulate: there exists an organization called StreetWise that provides employment opportunities to people with little to no skills who are homeless or at risk of being homeless. So why is the particular opportunity they provide selling a magazine? Why not cookies or coffee or something else? I had always assumed the answer was some feel-good [...]

It’s fascinating to watch the cycle of feedback between the UX designers and representatives of the nonprofits. So often technological and “business school” solutions don’t truly meet the actual problems faced by organizations. But as these UX folks test out some ideas with StreetWise’s executive director, they seem like they’re learning more about it and [...]

Ceasefire: Treating Violence through Public Health Originally uploaded by ux4good This is Andy Angelos – a community organizer and entrepreneur from Chicago. I will be covering the progress of the Ceasefire team throughout the day. Ceasefire is a national public health strategy designed to reduce urban violence such as shootings and killings. Many feel powerless [...]

Here’s where the ideas of our UX designers meet reality — our StreetWise challenge group is currently meeting with the group’s Executive Director, Jim LoBianco, testing our their ideas from yesterday and finding out more about the organization’s needs.

#thirdteacher Originally uploaded by ux4good Problem Scoping Like all of the groups on Day 1, Public Education first grappled with how to take a bite off of a very large and complex problem, one that experts have dealt with for years. What’s the point of education? Is it learning how to learn, creating good citizens, [...]

Here’s a complete list of volunteers, designers, experts, and other wonderful folks pitching in at UXXU 2011, plus Twitter handles. If you’re at the conference and don’t see your name on the list, e-mail Andrew Benedict-Nelson at albn.news [at] gmail.com. Click on most names to see a short bio. Brandy Agerbeck – @loosetooth Luiz Andrade [...]

Sarah Malin Day job: Design researcher, The Third Teacher Description: Sarah Malin provides The Third Teacher team an attention to the implicit values that drive a community and a keen ability to synthesize and articulate findings. Before her arrival to the design field, she studied anthropology and researched identity negotiation in Morocco’s urban centers. To [...]

Chris Courtney Day job: Mobile Project Manager Description: Chris is print/web/mobile media designer that has been creating products in the Chicago market for the past decade. His credits include the creation of the Tribune print tabloids RedEye and Mash, while revamping the spanish-language Hoy. From there Chris was involved in the design overhaul of the [...]

UX4Good Experts Refine the Objective for Global Lives Project Originally uploaded by ux4good The UX experts concentrating on global understanding are passionate, focused, educated and extremely dedicated – all adjectives needed to work through the challenge that comes with getting people interested in watching 240 hours of raw footage of a day in the life [...]