Fluxible Meetups 2016
Registration for Meetups is independent from the Fluxible Conference and Fluxible Workshops.
Monday
19 Sept 2016
Tuesday
20 Sept 2016
Wednesday
21 Sept 2016
Thursday
22 Sept 2016
Friday
23 Sept 2016
19 Sep 2016
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Communitech Hub
Brown Bag Lunch: Why the Best Designers Will Want to Work for You
Join Kristina McDougall, founder of Artemis Canada, who will lead a discussion about what attracts top design professionals to your company. Bring your lunch, questions to ask, and stories to share.
19 Sep 2016
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
D2L Office in Kitchener
Site Visit: Design at D2L
Find out how the design team at D2L is building the future of online teaching and learning.
19 Sep 2016
6:30 pm
Communitech Hub
Hacking Health Waterloo: Scenarios on the Future of Healthcare
Patrick Glinski shares a series of speculative scenarios on the future of healthcare.
This partner event is organized by our friends at Hacking Health Waterloo.
20 Sep 2016
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Communitech Hub
Brown Bag Lunch: Product Management + UX
Bring your lunch to a lively discussion about the intersection points between PM and UX.
20 Sep 2016
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
TD55 technology centre in Waterloo
Site Visit: Design at TD 55 Technology Centre
The TD Lab design team will walk us through the journey of bringing their Family Allowance app to life.
20 Sep 2016
6:00 pm
Communitech Hub Kitchen
Girl Geek Dinners: Chat Bots
Learn all about chat bots from Boltmade UX designer Katie Cerar.
This partner event is organized by our friends at Girl Geek Dinners Waterloo Region.
21 Sep 2016
10:00 am
Google Kitchener-Waterloo, 51 Breithaupt St, Kitchener, ON N2H 5G5
Site Visit: Design Sprints at Google
Watch a live stream of Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky, authors of "Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days" speaking about design sprints.
21 Sep 2016
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Communitech Hub
Brown Bag Lunch: Art, Technology, and User Experience in the Arts
Join artist and composer David Jensenius for a brownbag lunch about art, technology, and user experience in the arts.
21 Sep 2016
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Shopify Plus office in Waterloo
Site Visit: Design at Shopify Plus
Join us at Shopify Plus as we take you through their design process in a hands-on workshop where you’ll learn the basics of how they GSD.
22 Sep 2016
8:30 am
The Bauer Kitchen
DesignChats Breakfast with Calvin Chu of Palette
Get hands-on with hardware from Palette and enjoy Q&A with CEO Calvin Chu.
This partner event is organized by our friends at DesignChats KW.
22 Sep 2016
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Communitech Hub
Brown Bag Lunch: Longitudinal User Research
Learn about conducting user research studies that unfold over long periods of time.
22 Sep 2016
4:00 pm
Communitech Hub
Concert: Stealth
Stealth is a musical duo whose members each have performed in a variety of contexts, making wonderful music wherever they go.
22 Sep 2016
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Shopify office in Waterloo
UX Book Club: Designing for Happiness
Discuss her new book Designing for Happiness with Fluxible speaker Pamela Pavliscak.
This partner event is organized by our friends at UX Book Club KW
22 Sep 2016
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
335 Gage Avenue, Suite 1, Kitchener, ON
Site Visit: Product design at MUSIC
Robert Rinaldi and his team at MUSIC will take you on a journey through their UX product design process with an inside and exclusive look at a few of the new products scheduled for release in 2017.
23 Sep 2016
7:30 am
Communitech Hub
Breakfast with Peter Merholz: UX and Product Success
Peter Merholz looks at why "experience" is the key to product success, and why standard product management practice isn't enough.
This partner event is organized by our friends at Communitech.
23 Sep 2016
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Communitech Hub
Brown Bag Lunch: Magic in the Overlaps
Lindsay Ellerby of Normative talks about the firm’s systems approach to design.
23 Sep 2016
7:00 pm – whenever
Local restaurants
Fluxible Dinners
Make some new connections over food and UX conversation at local restaurants.