2025-10-21 Design as Learning – Learning as Experience

Hosted by CapCHI and Anna

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Join us for a deep dive into Learning Experience Design with Alexandre Enkerli.

We live and work in different domains, from interaction design to user research. Though we may collaborate to build solutions for shared problems, we don’t always share the same experiences. During this CapCHI session, Alex outlines how we can learn from one another as experts in a variety of contexts, while addressing some potential controversies along the way. Is “Design Thinking” a useful framing? What does work in Human-Computer Interaction have in common with Systems Design and with User Experience Writing?

As a practice domain situated between Instructional Design and User Experience Design, Learning Experience Design (LXD) will serve as a context for this exploration. Though products and solutions do come out of LXD, the field’s focus is on learning as a complex experience. As a group, we will try to develop a shared understanding of design as a learning experience.

DATE TIME: Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 6:00-8:00 pm.

LOCATION: In-Person Event at Impact Hub Ottawa (123 Slater Street, 7th floor, Ottawa, ON K1P 5H2).

  • NOTE: The venue is in a high-rise building, and the entry doors on the ground floor/street level lock automatically at 7pm.

REGISTRATION: (Free!) https://www.meetup.com/capchi/events/311450823/ 

2025-09-16 Love at First Query, Regret at First Hallucination

Hosted by CapCHI, and Melis.

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Join us for a thought-provoking CapCHI session with JP Simbandumwe, co-founder of Ottawa UX consultancy Jumping Elephants, where we’ll explore the promises and pitfalls of AI-enabled search.

UX practitioners now face a new design frontier: search interfaces we don’t control, powered by LLMs that remix our content. In this session, JP will unpack the mechanics and benefits of AI search, from intent detection and multi-source synthesis to conversational follow-ups, using real-world examples of Google’s AI Overviews, ChatGPT answers, and Perplexity’s “answer engine”.

You’ll also hear about the risks, hallucinations, bias, zero-click behaviour, and accessibility gaps, and gain practical, actionable strategies to help clients and organizations optimize their content for visibility and accuracy in this rapidly changing landscape.

Whether you’re a UX practitioner, content strategist, or simply curious about the future of search, this session will offer actionable insights and real-world examples you can take back to your work.

DATE TIME: Tuesday September 16, 2025, 6:00-8:00 pm.

LOCATION: In-Person Event at Impact Hub Ottawa (123 Slater Street, 7th floor, Ottawa, ON K1P 5H2).

  • NOTE: The venue is in a high-rise building and the entry doors on the ground floor/street level lock automatically at 7pm.

REGISTRATION: (Free!) https://www.meetup.com/capchi/events/310838720/