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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">CHIFOO Event: Designer Myopia</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2016-10-05T19:00:00" datetime="2016-10-05T19:00:00">Wednesday, October 5, 2016 from 7</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2016-10-05T21:00:00" datetime="2016-10-05T21:00:00">9pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202393394'><span class='fn org p-name'>Connective DX Community Room</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">2030 NW Pettygrove St</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">OR</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97209</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">US</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=2030%20NW%20Pettygrove%20St,%20Portland%20OR%2097209%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>CHIFOO presents "Designer Myopia" with Rian Van Der Merwe, Wildbit!</p> <p>The all-too-common phenomenon whereby, despite our best intentions, we sometimes design with a nearsightedness that results in websites and applications that please ourselves and impress our peers but don’t meet user and business goals.</p> <p>About the Speaker</p> <p>Rian Van Der Merwe (@RianVDM) designs and builds high quality software that people love to use, and I wrote a book about it called “Making It Right“.</p> <p>He spent seven years in Silicon Valley and then moved to Portland, OR in April 2014. He has been working as a Product Manager for Wildbit and an independent author, speaker, and product consultant with Elezea.</p> <p>Come join CHIFOO for our ninth speaker event for 2016's theme "Bounded Irrationality: Supporting Users and Building Communities".</p> </div> </div>