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Past events

15 Oct 2025	Disney - Designed to be the Happiest Place On Earth
10 Sep 2025	How AI Ate My Website
10 Jun 2025	Leadership conversations: UX to Product Management
14 May 2025	Designing for AI Drift: Introducing the TAR Framework \| Arnie Guha
15 Apr 2025	CHI 2025 Conference Paper Previews
20 Mar 2025	UX in Japan's Countryside: Tackling Real-World Challenges. \| Maxwell Forrest and John Leung
27 Feb 2025	Designing for Inclusion: Co-creation and Human-Centered Design \| Renn Scott
16 Jan 2025	The Health of our Discipline: Assessment, Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Prescription \| Karel Vredenburg
12 Dec 2024	Digital Dreams Have Become Nightmares: What We Must Do \| Ron Baecker
19 Nov 2024	Designing for Caregiver-facing Values Elicitation Tools \| Dr. Pin Sym Foong
14 Nov 2024	Influence Without Authority \| Christine Farrugia
10 Oct 2024	Workshopping the Workshop: In Search of Facilitation Best Practices \| Tedde van Gelderen
04 Sep 2024	Beyond the Basics: Elevating Your Unmoderated User Testing Game \| Nick Wu
13 Jun 2024	Healthy Hustle: How High-Achieving Teams Innovate - Tutti Taygerly
29 May 2024	The Spatialized Digital Milieu: An Infrastructure Approach to the Design of Responsive Environments \| Matt Gorbet
08 May 2024	CHI'2024 Preview: 4 talks from U of T students
10 Apr 2024	Healthcare Innovation & Low Tech Design Solutions
13 Mar 2024	Adaptation: Meaning and the Intelligence Latent in Space \| Bill Buxton
06 Feb 2024	Conversational Voice Interfaces: Holy Grail or Pandora's Box? \| Prof. Cosmin Munteanu, University of Waterloo
11 Jan 2024	Human-AI interaction: Co-Pilots, Trainers, and Augmentation \| Prof. Mark Chignell, University of Toronto
09 Nov 2023	Research with a capital R: The changing face of research roles and partnerships \| Gary Fernandes & Ryan Kealey, Research Science TD
19 Oct 2023	How Machine Learning Transparency Affects Decision Making - Dr. Fahimeh Rajabiyazdi, Candu Energy
27 Sep 2023	Research insights that satisfy both designers and stakeholders \| Christian Rohrer, TD Bank
01 Jun 2023	Designing feedback: How to coach UX staff effectively – Joyce Wong, TD Insurance
03 May 2023	The Future of Conversational UX – Celene Osiecka, [24]7.ai
30 Mar 2023	Democracy as a Design Problem \| Whitney Quesenbery, Center for Civic Design
16 Feb 2023	Women in UX Design
19 Jan 2023	Inclusion Through Listening \| Indi Young
14 Dec 2022	December social (in-person)
29 Nov 2022	Solving Problems with Human Centered Design: A joint event with TPMA
20 Oct 2022	They're coming for us with pitchforks: Unwelcome changes in digital products – Iain Lowe
22 Sep 2022	Research Operations in User Research - How to Scale for Success - Geordie Graham
06 Jun 2022	Quantitative aspects of UX research: An AMA with Jim Lewis
28 Apr 2022	Interactions @scale for monitoring air - Karen Donoghue, Local Haze
21 Mar 2022	The Toronto UX (HCI) Scene in the 1990s
24 Feb 2022	Ethnography & UX Research: Panel Discussion
13 Jan 2022	CBC Olympics Experience Design Informed by User Focus
08 Dec 2021	Early UX Career Lessons Learned
11 Nov 2021	Inclusive design: Case studies from IBM design leaders
18 Oct 2021	Agile and HCD/UX - Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
16 Sep 2021	Four UX Mistakes you Don't Know You are Making (and How Object-Oriented UX can prevent them!)
21 Jun 2021	Marketing + UX Collaboration: A case study by ecobee
17 May 2021	Information Architecture: Beyond Navigation, Labels, and Organization \| Nathaniel Davis, Methodbrain
30 Mar 2021	The Cure for the Common Zoom
18 Mar 2021	Cooking Up a UX Portfolio - A Recipe for Success!
01 Mar 2021	UX Research Mix Tape \| Paul McInerney
05 Feb 2021	Analytical Conversation \| Jock D. Mackinlay, Tableau Software
21 Jan 2021	UX Roadmaps for Establishing your Product’s North Star \| Drew Ellis
07 Dec 2020	Things to Think With \| Stephen P. Anderson, author and design leader [VIDEO & SLIDES]
10 Nov 2020	Intentional Product Leadership \| Chris Avore [VIDEO & SLIDES]
14 Oct 2020	Writing is designing: Use words to build better experiences \| Andy Welfle & Michael J. Metts [VIDEO & SLIDES]
10 Sep 2020	How Google Analytics can Strengthen the Case for UX \| June Li, ClickInsight [VIDEO & SLIDES]
18 Aug 2020	Digital Leadership and Innovation through Inclusive Design \| Jennifer Chadwick, Siteimprove [SLIDES]
20 Jul 2020	Spins on User Experience \| Keith Instone, Dexterity UX [SLIDES, RECORDING]
29 Jun 2020	The MAGIC of Semantic IxD \| Daniel Rosenberg, rCDO UX [RECORDING, PDF]
08 Jun 2020	Recruiting for User Research in the Age of COVID-19 \| Basel Fakhoury, User Interviews [RECORDING, PDF]
25 May 2020	HCDAgile: A Hybrid Approach \| Carol Righi (1904labs) [RECORDING, SLIDES]
20 Apr 2020	CHI'2020 Talks \| Students from U of T [PDF, VIDEO]
07 Apr 2020	Perceived usability: Usefulness and measurement of this construct \| James Lewis, Ph.D [PDF, VIDEO]
11 Mar 2020	Footings and Fixtures: Foundations of Design \| Paul Eisen, Ph.D., P.Eng. [PDF, VIDEO]
29 Jan 2020	Does AI Mean Data Visualization is Dead? \| Jamie Waese, Anne Stevens, Afrooz Samaei, Stephen O'Connell (IBM) [VIDEO, PDF]
14 Nov 2019	World Usability Day - Designing Worlds We Can Live In: Inclusive design in practice \| Cheryl Li , Colin Clark (OCADU) [PDF]
30 Sep 2019	AI & UX: Reports from the field \| Michael Zuliani (IBM), Nathalie Crosbie (BMO) [PDF]
29 Jul 2019	Summer social
12 Jun 2019	Experience Thinking, a Design Framework to Create End-to-End Experiences \| Tedde van Gelderen (Akendi)
23 May 2019	The Future of The Interface: Where UX and CX Meet \| Arnie Guha (Phase 5)
25 Apr 2019	CHI2019 Preview \| Students from U of T's Dynamic Graphics Project (DGP)
03 Apr 2019	What Society Must Require from AI \| Ron Baecker (U. of Toronto)
06 Mar 2019	Participatory Inclusive Design in Health and Wellbeing \| Dr. Kate Sellen (OCADU) [PDF]
30 Jan 2019	Working for the Enemy at Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit \| Aleks Oniszczak
19 Dec 2018	Holidays Gathering with Student Project Presentations [video]
08 Nov 2018	World Usability Day 2018 - Design for Good or Evil \| Ilona Posner (Consultant), Fanny Chevalier (U of Toronto) Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed (U of Toronto) [PDF, video]
15 Oct 2018	Co-creation: Reinventing Design in Agile, Product-First Organizations \| Craig Saila (CBC)
20 Sep 2018	Humber College Usability Lab Trailer Tour and Industry Case Studies \| George Paravantes, Bernie Monette (Humber College) [video]
14 Jun 2018	Government: A New Frontier for Design \| Chris Govias (Canadian Digital Service) [video]
14 May 2018	Speech and Hands-free Interaction: Myths, Challenges, and Opportunities \| Cosmin Munteanu (U of Toronto)
12 Apr 2018	From Postcards to Virtual Reality & Back! \| Bill Buxton [video, PDF]
28 Mar 2018	CHI2018 Preview \| Students from U of T's Dynamic Graphics Project (DGP)
07 Mar 2018	TD Bank's Experience Strategy & Design Research Panel
08 Feb 2018	IBM Creating An Award-winning Intranet From Scratch
14 Dec 2017	User Experience Design Case Studies, Student Project Presentations
09 Nov 2017	TorCHI Celebrates World Usability Day with Inclusive Design Thinking Workshop [VIDEO]
19 Oct 2017	Autodesk – Designing for Virtual Reality: Beyond the Games, John Schrag, Autodesk [VIDEO]
21 Sep 2017	Cineplex Rewind, Fast Forward: Sprinting from Concepts to Actionable Results [VIDEO]
28 Jun 2017	IBM Toronto UX Research Showcase
11 May 2017	Google – The (Very Near) Future of Retail in Canada – Naumi Haque, Strategy and Insights Manager, Google Canada
20 Apr 2017	Optimizing UX for Agile - and vice versa: A panel discussion
13 Mar 2017	How User Experience impacts Brand Equity – Snigdha Sah, Senior Lead UX Specialist, GfK Canada
30 Jan 2017	The Shock and Awe of Incremental Website Improvements – by Morag Johnston
12 Dec 2016	TorCHI Visit to Ryerson's Syn Lab with Prof Ali Mazalek
10 Nov 2016	TorCHI celebrates World Usability Day 2016 with "Confessions of a Recovering Designer: Shedding the Right UX Baggage to Make Great Experiences Thrive" by Andrew Chak
18 Jul 2016	Evaluating User Experience Using the UX Graph and Experience Recollection Methods by Masaaki Kurosu
26 May 2016	TorCHI's CHI2016 San Jose Conference Highlights Review.
28 Apr 2016	CIBC UX Lab Tour - UX Research & Design at CIBC
28 Jan 2016	Learnings from Designing CBC's 2015 Federal Election Dashboard
10 Dec 2015	Taking the Long View with UX: Successful Leadership Strategies that Involve Building Trust, Empathy, and Relationships
12 Nov 2015	TorCHI Celebrates World Usability Day 2015 Focus on Innovation
23 Oct 2015	1-day workshop: UX Design with the Mind in Mind
22 Oct 2015	Designing Websites for an Aging Population: Toward Universal Design
24 Jun 2015	ROGERS - The shift to customer-first: from data to strategy to experience
08 Jun 2015	TorCHI's CHI2015 Korea Conference Highlights Review.
30 Apr 2015	Next Generation Virtual World, Michael Macedonia
09 Mar 2015	Designing tools that provide advice: Some advice for UX designers \| Paul McInerney, Rick Sobiesiak, IBM
04 Feb 2015	Listening through Customer Insights, Adam Froman, CEO Delvinia & AskingCanadians
19 Jan 2015	Designing for Work, Karel Vredenburg, IBM Director of Design
10 Dec 2014	KMDI & TorCHI Present – Designed to Disconnect: Technologies of Non-Use and Communication Avoidance
13 Nov 2014	UX Bootcamp - Hands-On Practice of Collaborative, Interactive, & Engaging UX Techniques
29 Oct 2014	Designing Next Generation Desktop Phones: A Case Study in Evidence-Based Design
11 Sep 2014	The Future of Making - 3D Printing
19 Jun 2014	Investigating the Role of Human Factors within IBM
22 May 2014	CHI 2014 Conference Debrief at ToRCHI
09 Apr 2014	ToRCHI Preview of CHI presentations from DGP Lab UofT
28 Mar 2014	Agile UX Toolkit 1-day workshop
26 Feb 2014	The Usability of Usability, Andrew Chak, TD Bank
16 Jan 2014	Institutionalization of UX – An Object Oriented Approach, by Eric Schaffer, HFI [VIDEO]
12 Dec 2013	Advancing UX in Your Organization
14 Nov 2013	Celebrate World Usability Day with ToRCHI & UHN
16 Oct 2013	Cognitive Distractions in Driving
25 Sep 2013	Slings and Arrows: The Outrageous Fortunes of UX Management
06 Jun 2013	The Triple Revolution: How Networked Individualism Plays Out in Community, Family and Work
15 Apr 2013	ToRCHI PREVIEWS - CHI’13 Paris Conference Presentations
28 Mar 2013	Workshop: Foundations of design practice
20 Feb 2013	Rethinking Tablet User Experience by James Wu (Kobo)
30 Jan 2013	Skill Building for Design Innovators
12 Dec 2012	How do you make great digital products?
17 Oct 2012	TorCHI visit to the Inclusive Design Research Centre at OCADU
10 Sep 2012	User Experience in the Age of Sustainability
27 Jun 2012	Designing a self-administered cognitive test that runs through a web-browser: Myth or reality?
04 Jun 2012	CIBC iPad Banking App
04 Apr 2012	Digital Product Design at The Globe and Mail
23 Feb 2012	Mobile Web Design workshop
01 Feb 2012	User Strategies: Considerations for UX Analysis and Design
14 Dec 2011	Driver distraction and in-car information systems
10 Nov 2011	World Usability Day talk: Internet of Things
03 Oct 2011	Why touch input seems inaccurate and how to allow for high-precision touch input using a fingerprint scanner
29 Jun 2011	Designing Natural: The Secrets of Microsoft's Natural User Interfaces
08 Jun 2011	Site visit to Gesturetek
26 May 2011	Collaborative Gift Giving with GiveButtons
21 Apr 2011	Best practices in Interface Design and applying them to Microsoft Surface
17 Mar 2011	How HCI can save the World
17 Feb 2011	Technology's role in bereavement: Opportunities for design
15 Dec 2010	Experience Design by Tedde van Gelderen
11 Nov 2010	World Usability Day celebration
13 Oct 2010	Measuring Emotion
22 Sep 2010	User Experience at Research In Motion (RIM)
15 Jul 2010	Designing User-centric Experiences
17 Jun 2010	Cross-Cultural User-Experience Design and the Green Machine
17 Jun 2010	Mobile User Interface Design course
20 May 2010	CANCELED: Sustainable UX
28 Apr 2010	Touch User Experience Design
02 Feb 2010	Designing Safe Systems in Healthcare by Anjum Chagpar (UHN)
19 Jan 2010	Design for a Smarter Planet by Karel Vredenburg (IBM)
08 Dec 2009	Start Well, End Well: Using Sprint Zero
12 Nov 2009	Usable Climate Science
04 Jun 2009	Bell Usability Lab tour and presentation on “Beyond Text: Online Card Sorting with Images” by Jamie Hart
20 May 2009	The Aphasia Project: Designing Technology For and With People who have Aphasia
16 Apr 2009	Creating Insight Driven Digital Experiences
05 Feb 2009	Generational Differences – A User Experience Challenge
05 Feb 2009	One-day Course: Neuro Web Design & Recent Research for Usability and Interface Design
21 Jan 2009	3 Case Studies on Personas
16 Dec 2008	Future Interface Demos
13 Nov 2008	World Usability Day celebration
06 Nov 2008	From HCI to Interaction Design
01 Oct 2008	Talks on Microsoft Surface and Office UI
24 Jun 2008	June 24 presentation: There is a story behind every link
23 Jun 2008	UX+IA workshop: Toronto, June 2008
29 May 2008	DGPis40 celebration
29 Apr 2008	UI PATENTS: PLEASURE OR PAIN
27 Feb 2008	Tour of IBM Innovation Centre

More past events

30-Jan-08	Bell Usability Lab tour
18-Dec-07	Ron Baecker on ePresence
8-Nov-07	World Usability Day
25-Oct-07	Mark Chignell
18-Jun-07	Bill Buxton
28-May-07	Ptanjali Chary (Oracle)
25-Apr-07	IBM Lab site visit/presentations
21-Mar-07	Alias site visit/presentations
28-Feb-07	Ron Baecker
7-Feb-07	CNIB visit hosted by Lesley MacDonald
9-Nov-06	World Usability Day @ The Drake Hotel
28-Sep-06	Audio Based Reminders \| Khai Truong
31-May-05	Banking Panel
28-Apr-05	eHEALTH (joint event with TUPA)
21-Mar-05	Task Analysis \| Paul McInerney (IBM)
15-Dec-04	Ryerson Accessibility Centre
16-Nov-04	Home Run Event
22-Apr-04	Helen Maskery
17-Dec-03	Christmas Party
13-Nov-03	Aaron Markus
16-Sep-03	Karel Vredenburg (IBM)
5-Jun-03	Jared Spool Full Day Workshop
20-Mar-03	Customer Experience Presentation
8-Mar-03	Ron Baecker
27-Feb-03	Evelyn Lo
12-Dec-02	York University HCI Lab
28-Nov-02	Antonia Palmer
22-Oct-02	Panel with 3 Usability Experts
19-Sep-02	Roberts, U of T
20-Jun-02	DCIEM
10-Jun-02	Full Day Workshop
16-Apr-02	Catherine Devlin
28-Feb-02	Kim Vincente
17-Jan-02	TorCHI Meeting
12-Dec-01	Christmas Party @ Summit Grill
25-Oct-01	MAPTUIT
7-Jun-01	Barry Wellman
14-May-01	Jeff Raskin - Full Day Workshop
20-Mar-01	724 Solutions
27-Feb-01	Meeting Requirements Engineering
27-Feb-01	Steve Mann
10-Feb-00	Alias/Wavefront site visit