Upcoming EventsDigital Dreams Have Become Nightmares: What We Must DoDecember 12, 2024
These nightmares seem overwhelming, but there is much that we can do, much that we must do. |
For eighty years, digital technology visionaries have imagined and created systems to support human knowledge, learning, creativity, medicine, health, communications, community, commerce, power, and convenience. Yet these advances have been subverted by ill-advised uses and by bad actors creating hate speech, disinformation, job loss and industry disruption, monopolistic abuse of market dominance, helplessness, mental distress, injustice, loss of privacy, and poor security and safety.
Half Day Workshop: Influence Without Authority for UX and Beyond
January 10, 2024
To maximize your impact, earn a 'seat at the table', and grow your career, learning the art and science of influencing is critical. Join Christine for an in-depth 3 hour workshop to identify YOUR unique influencing style, learn how to flex your style when needed and get coaching on how to handle the toughest influencing situations in your own career. In this small- group workshop, you'll get a chance to get tailored feedback to your role and style AND you'll leave with a personalized influencing playbook that you can leverage to increase your ability to get things done in your organization AND get that next promotion. You won't want to miss it!
The Health of our Discipline: Assessment, Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Prescription
January 16, 2024
Karel assesses the health of our discipline given the precipitous and disproportionate decrease in UX job postings and increase in UX job losses. He then diagnoses the causes, provides a prognosis, and outlines a prescription for a very healthy future for the discipline.
PRESENTER: Karel Vredenburg has had a long and successful career as a design executive, most recently as the Global Vice President of UX Research at IBM. He led design worldwide at IBM for most of his three decades with the company, implemented Enterprise Design Thinking into each of the business units of the company globally -software, services, systems, and sales - as well as to hundreds of other companies, typically working with their C-suite level executives and boards.
About TorCHI
| TorCHI is a professional association of people in the Toronto UX community. Our diverse membership includes people with backgrounds in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Engineering, User Experience (UX), User Experience Research (UXR), Information Architecture (IA), Design Thinking, Usability, and Design among others. As well, our members include professionals, academics, and students. TorCHI was founded in 1990 as the local chapter of ACM's SIGHI, the Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction. We offer ways to learn, share and network. |
