design

2022-05-17 Beyond The Borders: Healthcare Technologies for Sensitive Communities

Hosted by CapCHI

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Providing equitable access to healthcare services imposes a diverse set of challenges, especially when the target population faces limited geographical accessibility, literacy, and socio-economical barriers. A plausible way forward to improve healthcare in the Global South countries is by promoting the development and use of digital technologies. New approaches such as Human-Computer Interaction for Development (HCI4D), have highlighted the need for a deepest human-centred design approach toward localized digital solutions that properly work in a resource-constrained context.

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2022-04-19 Application of Human-Centred Design to Humanitarian Challenges

Hosted by CapCHI

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On 3 August 2014, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, attacked the Sinjar district of Iraq. This district has historically been the home ground of Yezidi. The attack marked the beginning of a genocidal campaign of brutal violence directed against the Yezidi, with the aim to eliminate them and their culture. Many Yezidis fled their homes to the safety of refugee camps from which they applied for refuge in many different countries. Alan Frank, applied his knowledge of Human-Centred Design in the execution of two different projects to support the Yezidis in their new homes.

  • Alan addressed, as a volunteer with Project Abraham ( Project Abraham – Home ), some of the financial and literacy challenges faced by the Yezidis relocated to Canada. The project explored the use of Bliss Board Technology to support daily activities such as food shopping.
  • As the Senior Analyst to the Yazidi Legal Network ( Yazidi Legal Network ), Alan worked with the Senior Legal Advisor to design a knowledge base and analysis procedures to support the multiple goals of the Yazidi Legal Network.

Join us for an exploration of non-traditional applications of Human-Centred Design. Both projects are “works in progress” and there will be plenty of time for questions and any ideas would be appreciated.

Please note: The War Crimes committed by ISIS against the Yezidis are extremely violent. While this talk will not focus on the specifics of these events, the knowledge base includes issues such as rape and kidnapping. We routinely mention this because the material can trigger Secondary Post Traumatic Syndrome in vulnerable individuals.

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2022-03-15 Ethics in Product Creation with Roxana-Maria Barbu & Jennifer Fraser

Hosted by Anna and CapCHI

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Ethics in design and research are essential building blocks of product development. Join Roxana-Maria Barbu PhD, and Jennifer Frasierto discuss ethics in product creation. Ethical practices are fundamental to creating trust in products and their brand. Listen as they go through the ethical principles ensuring the well-being of those involved, including users, designers, researchers, engineers, and product owners.

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2022-02-15 Ingenium and Digital: A New Path Forward

Hosted by Anna and CapCHI

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Websites, games and apps, and museum floor interactives are just a few of the areas that the digital team at Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation – explore on a daily basis. Join Ryan Dodge and Lauren DiVito as they discuss the corporate shift that is currently happening at their museums, some of the hurdles they’re working to overcome, and a special look at the new Digital Innovation Lab, a space for collaborating on innovative, creative digital projects!

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2021-12-21 Exercising Your UX Superpower with Shaun Illingworth

Hosted by Hala and CapCHI

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Most private and public sector organizations struggle to embrace digital transformation beyond the fundamental operational level. Innovation requires creativity, insight, systems thinking, an experimental mindset and courage. User experience researchers and designers are arguably the best equipped to explore and define the future, but very few are engaged in the challenge of innovation, next generation thinking and visioning.

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2021-11-16 Chasing Squirrels & Herding Kittens: Accessible Service Design in Government

Hosted by Jed Looker and CapCHI

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Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) set out to improve services for people with disabilities through human-centred design with an Accessibility Design Challenge.

When we asked our clients about their experiences, we expected to hear about barriers with service touch points. But they told us so much more. Between policy, the built environment, websites and call centres, and with competing internal interests and a desire to chase shiny objects, keeping service design in scope was a challenge in itself.

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UX Product Designer at Assent Compliance

Product & Engineering – Ottawa, Toronto, …

At Assent, your work helps bring transparency, sustainability, and fairness to the global community.  Our software enables responsible stewardship to improve corporate decision making. We do this by providing a window into an organization’s global supply chain and the factories in which their products are manufactured, to reduce compliance risks, environmental waste, and prevent human rights abuse.

We’re one of the fastest-growing technology companies – from $5 million to $50 million ARR in under five years!  As the global leader in supply chain data management, we provide transparency into the supply chains of some of the world’s largest and most successful companies, including 75 percent of Fortune 500 companies.

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Your Role as the UX Product Designer!

As a critical member of Assent’s Product Design Team, the UX/Product Designer will be part of our collective quest to re-envision how we help our customers and end-users curate and manage their supply chain data. The goal: to create a product that people will love, trust, and ultimately promote!

We are a team that champions a design thinking approach. In this role, you will be part of a crew made up of UX practitioners, designers, strategic thinkers, and researchers, who all work closely with our engineering and product management partners to understand the challenges our customers face. You’ll have the opportunity to help define and deliver product solutions that elevate Assent’s position as a world-leading, era-defining enterprise product experience.

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UI Designer at Assent Compliance

Product & Engineering – Ottawa, Toronto, …

At Assent, your work helps bring transparency, sustainability, and fairness to the global community.  Our software enables responsible stewardship to improve corporate decision making. We do this by providing a window into an organization’s global supply chain and the factories in which their products are manufactured, to reduce compliance risks, environmental waste, and prevent human rights abuse.

We’re one of the fastest-growing technology companies – from $5 million to $50 million ARR in under five years!  As the global leader in supply chain data management, we provide transparency into the supply chains of some of the world’s largest and most successful companies, including 75 percent of Fortune 500 companies.

Follow us here.

Your Role as the UI Designer!

As a critical member of Assent’s Product Design Team, the UI/UX Designer will be part of our collective quest to re-envision how we help our customers curate and manage their supply chain data. The goal: to create a product that people will love, trust, and ultimately promote!

We are a team that champions a design thinking approach. In this role, you will be part of a crew made up of UX practitioners, designers, strategic thinkers, and researchers, who are all working to build a consistent, and unified user experience. You will lead our efforts to establish a world-class design system deeply rooted in design principles, customer empathy, and evidence-based insights, which will be the cornerstone of our design and development practices. You will help conjure ideas for visual elements that will work best. You will also assist in translating high-level requirements, or ideas ready for validation into interactive prototypes.

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2021-05-18 Making Virtual Wishes A Reality

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How do you get past strict hospital privacy policies and infection control requirements so you can virtually grant last wishes for end-of-life patients? How does someone with Parkinson’s select a virtual reality video if they can’t grip the controller or keep their head steady to use the head-gaze feature of a VR headset? What does Schitt’s Creek, a group of nuns, and a super-charged monster truck have in common?
 
Find the answers to these and many more real-life challenges that David Parker tackled when pioneering VR for healthcare and palliative use.

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2021-04-20 Designing and Building Canada’s COVID-19 Exposure Notification Service

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Join Courtney Claessens (Senior Product Manager) and Brian Hendrick (Lead Service Designer and Product Manager) from the COVID Alert team, as they share the guiding principles that went into designing and building the Government of Canada’s COVID-19 exposure notification service.

Using principles such as accessibility and trust, Courtney and Brian will discuss how three multidisciplinary teams built a multi-region service in 45 days that helps alert users if they may have been exposed to COVID-19 before they are showing symptoms, allowing them to take action and help slow the spread of the virus. They’ll also share details on how they continue to iterate on and improve the service.

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