As promised, here's a listing of upcoming UX design-related events in Chicago for summer 2016.

1. IxDA is a network dedicated to the
professional practice of Interaction Design
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2. IxDA Chicago!
Your IxDA Chicago Local Leaders
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James
Martin
Golli
Hashemian
Lon
Taylor
Irena
Svidovsky
Sam
Dietz
Sam
Spicer
Jayne
Spottswood
Richard
Verne

3. IxDA Chicago!
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Join our online community!!
www.IxDAChicago.org
www.facebook.com/IxDA.Chicago
Twitter: @ixdachicago
Email: chicago-local@ixda.org

4. Community News & Happenings!
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Design In Motion
http://www.meetup.com/Chicago-Startup-Community/
Imagine this: You are a user experience designer at NBC. In the months leading up to the
Olympic Games in Rio, your design team has been enlisted to increase viewership and
engagement for one of the most overlooked events: race walking. It’s your goal to keep
audiences tuned in — and clicking — on NBC’s website. With digital tools like graphics,
widgets, videos, and interactive timelines at your disposal, which would you use?
Tasked with creating dynamic web experiences that are user-friendly, attention-grabbing,
and on brand, product and user experience designers face similarly compelling
challenges every day. That’s why we asked a panel of Chicago’s best to tackle NBC’s
project and share their solutions. Join us June 28th to get an inside look at design
strategy in action and learn how you can apply it to your own projects.
Tuesday, June 28th from 6pm-8pm
GA Chicago @ Clique Studios
410 S Michigan Ave, 10th Floor, Chicago

5. Community News & Happenings!
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Insights from 2 Decades on the Front-Lines of a
Behavioral Design Revolution
http://www.meetup.com/Action-Design-Chicago
Robin Krieglstein has 20 years of experience working on technology to help people
improve their lives, their work, and their world at scale. On behalf of Action Design he
invites you to a complimentary workshop, where you'll learn about the systematic
framework he developed over the past 2 decades. This framework pulls together methods
from behavioral economics, behavior design, gamification, persuasive technology,
marketing, social work, positive psychology, and other fields.
It will serve as a preview of the contents of Robin's forthcoming book, “Design for
Good: Behavioral Design Thinking to Improve Societal Well Being. Physical | Mental |
Emotional | Social | Financial | Ecological.”
Tuesday, June 28th from 6pm-8pm
Morningstar
22 W Washington, Chicago

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10 Week Deep Dive into Service Design
http://www.serviceexperiencechicago.com/course.html
This is a rare opportunity to learn about Service Design, in-depth, for less than $100,000
along with putting your life and career on hold for 1-3 years. Our mission is to make
service design education accessible so that the discipline can grow here in Chicago.
At the end this class you will have a rock solid core knowledge of service design along
with a developed ability to use mapping and other alignment tools to position and drive
your service design projects. By the end of this project-based class, you will not only have​
a portfolio piece but also many new tools in your professional toolkit.
As a 1-time offering created to serve as a fund raiser for our annual Service Experience
Chicago conference, 100% of all sales go to our 501(c)3 charity and are tax-deductible.
Starts July 5th and meets Tues. and Thurs. from 5:30-7pm
Travel Zoo
200 S Wacker, Chicago, IL

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Quantifying the User Experience
http://www.measuringu.com/chicago.php
This half-day workshop is for researchers and designers who want to use numbers to
inform design and make better decisions about websites, software or mobile apps.
Participants will receive copies of Customer Analytics for Dummies and Quantifying the
User Experience (an $80 Value).
What you'll learn:
• The essential UX metrics and methods with examples
• How to apply a framework for measuring the user experience of any interface
• How User Experience metrics affect customer satisfaction and the Net Promoter Score
• 6 best practices for using numbers to inform design
Friday, July 15th, 2016 from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Trading Technologies
222 S. Riverside plaza 11th floor, Chicago

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Focus Groups & Qualitative Research
http://www.meetup.com/Library-UX-Chicago
LibraryUX Chicago and Academic Library Marketing present Focus Groups & Qualitative
Research – an interactive workshop. Lead by Dr. Stacy Neier Beran, PhD of Loyola
University Chicago, participants will get hands on experience in leading focus groups,
working with qualitative data, and using your results to facilitate change. This workshop
will be a blend of interactive activities and lecture. Because this is a participatory event,
this meeting will not be recorded or made available in an online format.
Friday, July 22 from 1pm-4pm
University of Chicago Library in Room 122
1100 E 57th St. Chicago

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Service Experience Chicago: Systems of Care
http://www.serviceexperiencechicago.com/conference.html
Service Experience Chicago is an annual conference dedicated to growing the Service
Design community in Chicago. Our 2016 program is center around "Systems of Care".
Industries ranging from healthcare to financial services are struggling to understand the
complexities and dynamic value exchange created between the people delivering and
receiving services in a system of care. We believe Service Design affords problem-
solvers a unique set of tools and approaches that allow them to holistically solve
systematic problems internally and externally.
Discount code for IxDA Chicago members good for $50 off of the $400 professional
ticket. "IXDA-CHI2016"
Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 9:00 AM - Friday, August 26, 2016 at 5:30 PM
General Assembly Chicago
444 North Wabash Avenue, Chicago

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WebVisions Chicago
www.webvisionsevent.com/chicago/
WebVisions explores the future of design, content creation, user experience and business
strategy in an event that inspires learning, collaboration and entrepreneurism. Since 2001,
we’ve built a loyal audience of designers, developers and industry leaders. Join us for an
event that’s seen as the creative conference for the Web.
September 21-23rd
Siskel Film Center
Chicago, IL

11. Save the Date For Our July 28th Summer Party!!
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IxDA is bringing together local design groups for the ultimate UX summer party!
Enjoy drinks, bites, roof-top views and good company on Thursday, July 28 at Morningstar.
Sponsoring groups:
• Axure Users Meetup
• Chicago Design and User Research
• Service Experience Chicago
• UX Strategy Chicago
Supporting groups:
• Action Design
• UXPA Chicago
Registration opens Tuesday, June 28 on the IxDA Chicago website.
Special thanks to our host, Morningstar, and lead sponsor, Axure.
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LEAD SPONSOR

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13. Scaling UX in the Enterprise
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About the Talk
From starting an internal enterprise UX team, to growing that team in
terms of skills, value, tools, and processes, there are a lot of decisions
to make and challenges to overcome.
In this panel discussion, cross-functional members of the Paylocity UX
team will discuss how –
• Lean/Agile methodologies
• Atomic design
• UX prototyping
• UX research, and
• Adding a remote workforce
-- has empowered the team to quadruple in size, and add more value
every day.

14. Tweet About the Event!
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@paylocity
@the_nerdery
@ixdachicago