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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">PDX Design Research Group</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2016-01-20T18:30:00" datetime="2016-01-20T18:30:00">Wednesday, January 20, 2016 from 6:30</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2016-01-20T20:00:00" datetime="2016-01-20T20:00:00">8pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202394689'><span class='fn org p-name'>eBay Community Lounge</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">1400 SW 5th Avenue, 3rd Floor</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">OR</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97201</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">US</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=1400%20SW%205th%20Avenue,%203rd%20Floor,%20Portland%20OR%2097201%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p><b>Designing for Connections</b></p> <p>Dwayne King, Pinpoint</p> <p>Humans have a deep-seated evolutionary drive to congregate and organize themselves into communities. Modern-day communities provide protection, commerce and connection. Social resources like trust and shared identity make it easier for people to work and play together, creating a more productive and prosperous society. Productivity and prosperity are normally measured in objects and people, but these resources also reside in social relations among people. This extends the idea of capital beyond physical, financial and human to include social capital. Social capital provides a framework to make deliberate investments to develop resources that inhere in social relations. Research shows that increased social capital improves health, safety, education, government and the economy.</p> <p>In this presentation, Dwayne King will give an overview of the Community Experience Design (CxD) process, explaining how it draws from techniques successfully used in other disciplines. He’ll explore what he considers its core principles: co-design, systems thinking, prototyping, and habitat, and explain how its research and testing methods differ from those of UxD.</p> <p>Please join us for what promises to be an enlightening and entertaining evening!</p> <p><b>About the Speaker</b></p> <p>Dwayne King is the President of Pinpoint, a design strategy agency located in Portland, OR.</p> <p><b>Event Info</b></p> <p>Date: Wednesday, January 20th, 2016</p> <p>Time: Informal networking is from 6:30 – 7:00, with Dwayne’s talk to begin promptly at 7:00</p> <p><b>Please note: If you arrive after 7:00 pm, you will not be able to get into the building. Please plan to arrive at least a few minutes before then, as there won't be anyone downstairs to let you in.</b></p> <p>Special thanks to eBay and Tami Wood for hosting this event!</p> <p><b>About This Organization...</b></p> <p>The PDX Design Research Group is a multidisciplinary networking group focused on the role of research in the design of products, services and systems in business, government and non-profits. We welcome perspectives from all disciplines, including human-computer interaction, design, market research, and the social sciences, and others. Meetings are held every other month in downtown Portland, and include speakers, panel discussions, workshops, and other events, with opportunities to network and discuss relevant topics with fellow research professionals.</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://www.meetup.com/PDX-Design-Research-Group/">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>