World Usability Day 2025 - After the Collapse: Systems Thinking for the Day After

Triangle UXPA is partnering with the students in FLUX at UNC-CH and the Hussman School of Journalism and Media to celebrate World Usability Day 2025 at the Curtis Media Center at UNC-Chapel Hill on November 15.

The theme of this year's World Usability Day is Emerging Technologies and Human Experience.

This year's interactive event will be a design challenge in which teams of designers are asked to apply systems thinking techniques to breakdowns in a significant social system: e.g., housing, healthcare, education, employment. Lunch will be provided during the event, and of course opportunities to network with fellow students and design professionals. 

Registration begins for Triangle UXPA members and students on November 5. Registration for non-members begins November 8. This event will fill quickly, so register early.  

Registration closes 2 days before the event (November 13th). If you register for the event but can no longer attend, please email events@triuxpa.org so we can open up your spot for someone else.

Agenda

• 10:30 am - Kick-off and Introduction to Design Challenge
• 11:00 am - Selection of teams and crisis topics
• 11:30 am - Systems thinking and problem solving tools
• 12:00 pm - Go! First pass at analysis and outcomes
• 12:30 pm - Lunch and networking
•  1:00 pm - Go! Interventions (solutions)
•  1:45 pm - Break
•  2:00 pm - Team presentations
•  2:45 pm - Wrap up & Networking

After the Collapse: Systems Thinking for the Day After

Participants will engage with what happens when the systems we depend on break down - and how systems thinking and design thinking can help navigate the rebuilding or restructuring of those broken-down systems. New and emerging technologies, properly designed, can help provide for the people most affected by the systems' breakdown. 

Key Takeaways:

1. Practice designing for uncertainty using real-world, crisis-based prompts.
2. Develop rapid problem-solving, ideation, and collaboration skills in time-boxed sprints using a Lightning Decision Jam process.
3. Explore how systems thinking and UX can take the lead in social resilience and impact in unstable systems.

Location: 

Curtis Media Center, UNC - Chapel Hill
130 E Cameron Ave, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
See Directions to Curtis Media Center - Google Maps 

Waitlist

If the event fills up, you can join the waitlist. Two days before the event if there are spots available, we'll notify those on the waitlist. Any available spots will be on a first-come, first-serve basis.

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