September RVA Lightning Talk

When:
09/27/2018
5:30-7:30 PM

Where:
CarMx Shockoe
140 Virginia St.
Richmond, VA 23219

Free Tickets:
Eventbrite Here

Gear up for a great fall with another round of lightning talks from Richmond UX, Ladies that UX, and RVA Content Strategy. We’re bringing together pros from the Richmond design community to share their tips and techniques on how to succeed in a constantly evolving field.

Here are this month’s speakers:

Terry Peters |  Experience Director: ICF Olson

Talk: Communicating Design

Design is a complex process composed of many smaller activities: listening, analyzing, evaluating, brainstorming, synthesizing, experimenting, composing, describing, discussing, exploring, reacting, and countless others. Documenting is not one of these activities, but engaging in any of these activities yields artifacts—diagrams, notes, sketches, lists, inventories, annotations, and larger documents—that result from the act of performing the task. At the same time, each task requires inputs, and these artifacts that come from doing design are the same things that can help feed the design process. The success of the task directly relates to the quality of the inputs and may be measured on the quality of its outputs. So how does one effectively make use of these to communicate the fruits of their labors?

Bio: Talented user experience leader with 12 years of proven experience in the development and implementation of enterprise digital strategies, user-centered research and systems design with clients such as AARP, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Chik-fil-A, Johnson Controls, Scripps Networks, and The Nature Conservancy. Experienced team leader capable of mentoring cross-functional teams and fostering relationships to transform business and design needs into valuable and usable working products.

Connect:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/terry-peters-m-s-8198b61b/

Katie Moriarty | UX Research: Snag

Talk: You Don’t Have to Be a Researcher to Do User Research

We’ll discuss the value of observational research, how to do this type of research yourself, and how to apply your learnings to your day-to-day practice. Katie will use her own experiences to illustrate how accessible observational research can be.

Bio: Katie is a User Experience Researcher at Snag. Her work focuses on helping Snag’s product development teams gain a greater understanding of hourly workers and employers so they can design and build products that solve their users true pain points. Katie has experience in conducting a wide range of qualitative research methods to uncover key insights that are both meaningful and actionable to stakeholders.

Connect:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katiemoriarty/

Adarsh Ramakrishnan | Freelance Product Consultant

Talk: A Figma(nt) of Your Imagination — Streamlining your design flow using Figma

Explore how Figma can help you consolidate your entire design flow, letting you design, prototype, and spec in one platform.

Bio: Adarsh is a product consultant who specializes in strategy and design. As part of his consulting services, he has designed and built visual systems for digital products across multiple platforms. He is also teaches engineering design to students from non-technical majors through the VCU Da Vinci Center.

Connect:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adarshramakrishnan/

Website: http://adarshramakrishnan.com

Matt McGhan | Experience Designer: Singlestone

Talk: Healthy Design Systems Make Better Products

Bio: Midwest farm boy turned East Coast experience designer. Went from drawing animals, sports cards, and airplanes to designing visual experiences via VCU to non-profit to SingleStone. Lover of people and their day-to-day interactions with designed & digital things.

Connect:

Twitter: @mattigan

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-mcghan-b83bab5/

The Space

CarMax Shockoe 

Located in the historic Lady Byrd Hat building in downtown Richmond, this innovation center is a hub for dynamic, bleeding-edge creative work.

Lightning Talks 2 Recap

Thank you to everyone who attended our 2nd Design Lightning talk last week at the 1717 Innovation Center in Shockoe Bottom. Our 4 speakers presented useful and thought-provoking material that inspired a lively Q and A session. We had a great time, learned a lot and got to meet some new people.

Some photos from the event:

We will be adding links to our speakers’ presentations here:

Adarsh Ramakrishnan – How PM and UX can play nice

https://www.slideshare.net/secret/95qAo159v3D1zC

Ashley Cook – User Research Coming Together

Virginia Tech hiring an Interaction Designer

University Relations is seeking an Interaction Designer to join our multidisciplinary team to craft digital experiences for our various audiences, from prospective and current students to alumni and industry partners. Projects run the gamut from websites and editorial stories to mobile applications and email marketing.

Apply here: https://listings.jobs.vt.edu/postings/87843

JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!

Lots of people hiring designers right now.

UX DESIGNER: ICF OLSON
https://www.icf.com/careers/jobs/1800001874

CAR MAX IS HIRING A BUNCH OF POSITIONS
https://jobs.carmax.com/job/7951289/ux-writer-richmond-va/https://jobs.carmax.com/job/8184895/product-manager-richmond-va/https://jobs.carmax.com/job/8057569/product-designer-richmond-va/https://jobs.carmax.com/job/8057573/sr-product-designer-richmond-va/https://jobs.carmax.com/job/7544753/director-of-product-richmond-va/https://jobs.carmax.com/job/8305063/senior-mobile-developer-ios-richmond-va/https://jobs.carmax.com/job/8238611/sr-mobile-developer-android-richmond-va/https://jobs.carmax.com/job/8221746/lead-software-developer-richmond-va/

Creativity Through Adversity

DESCRIPTION

DATE AND TIME

LOCATION

Lightning Talk this Wednesday

DESCRIPTION

Richmond UX, Ladies that UX, RVA Content Strategy, and UXPA are joining forces to launch a new event series for and by the Richmond design community.

At each event, four designers will spend the evening sharing their know-how, lessons learned, and best tips and tricks on a variety of topics. You’ll be armed with new tools and techniques that you can immediately put into practice.

Here’s what’s on deck for our inaugural round of lightning talks!

Presenters:

Kevin Tuskey
Experience Design Lead – SingleStone
Design Thinking Crash Course

Shannon Leahy
UX Content Designer – Capital One
Topic: 4 Ways to Get Started with Content Testing Today

Jenn Atkins

Product Designer – Snag
Topic: Opportunity Trees: How to grow and care for them

Margaret Karles
Experience Designer – Freelance
Topic: What is a Concept?

About the 1717 Innovation Center:

Imagined as an all-in-one experience design lab, conference venue and event space, the 1717 Innovation Center is a collaborative workspace for multi-disciplinary experts, community organizations and entrepreneurs to share ideas, learn from each other and discover new ways to achieve their individual and collective mission(s).

Call for Lightning Talk Submissions!

Do you have a tactical tool or technique you use and can’t live without on a daily basis? Do you think it’s something every designer should know about, embrace, and use every day?

If so we’d love to hear from you for our ongoing series of Lightning Talks . For these events, we are looking for 4 designers to come in and each give a short 12-15 minute talk about something they’re passionate about.

The next Lightning Talk is August 1st in Richmond VA. We still have spots available!

For your submission, we’ll need the following info…
– A working title (doesn’t have to be final) for your talk.
– A brief overview (let’s say a paragraph) laying out what you would cover and why you think it matters.
– An example of how the audience could immediately apply what they’ve learned in their day-to-day job/life or immediately into their craft/practice.

If you’re interested email your submission to info@richmondux.com

Connecting Strategy and Design Panel

A panel discussing how design and strategy can influence and benefit each other. The panelists include:

• Jess Bowman (Lamb)- Design Strategy @ Capital One
• Tom Illmensee – Co-Founder Orbital Music Park
• Rob Huddleston- Director of Experience Design • Snagajob Innovation Lab

Moderated by Andrew LeVasseur – Experience Design Chair | VCU Brandcenter

DATE AND TIME

LOCATION

TICKETS:

$5 for Students
$7 Early Bird (Before March 12)
$10 After

REGISTER HERE

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/connecting-strategy-and-design-tickets-43629300412

REFUND POLICY

Richmond Design Survey

Here’s your opportunity to tell us what you think. RUX is conducting a (short) survey to find out how we can best serve the RVA design community: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SWK6PR8

Here are the results of the survey: RUX 2018 Survey (1)

Capital One – UX/UI Designer | Richmond

UX/UI Designer, Small Business Card

The Small Business Card Design team at Capital One is a diverse group of human-centered designers charged with disrupting how small business owners interact with their money, their bank, and their financial lives. The Small Business Card team has the unique ability to address the comprehensive needs of our customer base, designing a financial servicing platform that is simple, relevant and delightful to all.

Click here for more:

https://www.capitalonecareers.com/job/richmond/ux-ui-designer-small-business-card/1732/7042869