Friday March 21, 2025 | Platform Calgary
Experience an immersive day of innovation with hands-on workshops. Explore Information Architecture, speculative design, customer journeys, delightful experiences, and collaborative prototyping for transformative solutions
Worksop tickets sold separately
In this full-day workshop, you will learn the basics of what information architecture is, how it contributes to the overall user experience of digital spaces, and the skills that information architects use on a daily basis. You will learn about different kinds of taxonomies, when and where to use them, and how to craft information architecture deliverables that adhere to best practices and optimize your users' information seeking behaviours.
This workshop aims to encourage participants to think beyond traditional frameworks and design practices, fostering an inclusive approach that acknowledges and honors diverse cultures and worldviews. We will use Speculative Design to create Design Fictions through hands-on facilitated activities to explore decolonized UX design by imagining alternative futures and examining how current design practices can perpetuate colonial legacies. The goal of the workshop is to spark creative thinking, critical reflection, and actionable insights on how to build more equitable, inclusive, and culturally sensitive digital experiences today by imagining the future.
Are you ready to transform the way your organization designs experiences? Whether you serve customers, students, visitors, patients, or clients. Our Customer Journey Mapping course is your first step toward creating memorable, impactful interactions.
This fun and in-depth session is designed to help teams in any industry deeply empathize with their audiences, understand their pain points, and uncover new opportunities. From enterprises to government programs, our course equips you with the tools to design services and programs that truly resonate.
A unique social experiment event that will change the way WE think about connecting with strangers. What opportunities can only happen when strangers come together?
Our intention is to help Calgarians discover new ways to delight strangers, to create unexpected moments of joy and connection in public and online spaces. In a time where we are more wary than ever of each other, Teknion and Social Studies Lab are partnering to create an event to bring us closer together.
Great UX goes beyond screens, it’s about designing seamless, end-to-end service experiences. However, UX designers often face challenges when translating digital interactions into holistic service solutions that involve multiple teams, operational realities, and business constraints.This workshop is designed for UX professionals looking to elevate their prototyping and facilitation skills by working cross-functionally to quickly test and refine multi touchpoint innovative solutions.
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CX Manager at Alberta Blue Cross
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Founder, Social Studies Lab
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Innovation designer and Ignition Leader, KPMG
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Workplace Specialist, A&D Market Manager Southern Alberta, Teknion
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UX Lead, zu
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Information Architecture & UX Strategy Consultant / Rebecca Harper Consulting
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Director of Strategy, zu
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Friday, March 21, 2025
Students/unemployed get 30% discount.
Enter code STUDENT30 at checkout.
Saturday, March 22, 2025
Tickets available until March 20, 2025
2 days before the event
The Platform Innovation Centre is an innovation basecamp to all— a single point of access to resources, supports, programming and events to help startups successfully launch and grow their business.
Platform is where ideas come to be nurtured, refined, grow and thrive and East Village provides the doorway to the innovation ecosystem.
building UX communities in Alberta
Building on the success of our previous UX Camps in Edmonton, the 2025 conference promises to be an engaging and dynamic gathering of UX professionals, designers, developers, and innovators from across the province.
The partnership between Calgary UX and Edmonton UX represents a shared vision of fostering a thriving user experience community across Alberta. By joining forces, these two groups bring together the unique strengths of their respective regions, creating opportunities for collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and innovation.
Calgary UX is a vibrant community fostering connections among UX professionals through workshops, networking, mentorship, and creative collaboration.
Our goal is simple: to connect and grow a community of people across disciplines and industres that share a passion for design and UX.
We acknowledge that the Calgary area where the Bow and Elbow rivers meet is a place of confluence where the sharing of ideas and opportunities naturally occurs. Indigenous peoples have their own names for this area that were in use long before Scottish settlers named it Calgary.
The Métis call the Calgary area Otos-kwunee. In the Blackfoot language, they call this place, Moh-kins-tsis. The Stoney Nakoda Nation refer to the Calgary area as Wîchîspa Oyade and the people of the Tsuut’ina nation call this area Guts-ists-i. We would like to acknowledge that we are located on the traditional territories of the people of the Treaty 7 Region in Southern Alberta.
This includes: the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai collectively known as the Blackfoot Confederacy; the Îethka Nakoda Wîcastabi First Nations, comprised of the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley First Nations; and the Tsuut’ina First Nation. The City of Calgary is also homeland to the historic Northwest Métis and to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3. We acknowledge all Indigenous urban Calgarians, First Nations, Inuit, and Métis, who have made Calgary their home.
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