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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">Portland Community Design Thinkers - Join a Team for IDEO.org'­s 9-Week Course for Human-Centered Design</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2019-05-06T18:00:00" datetime="2019-05-06T18:00:00">Monday, May 6, 2019 from 6</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2019-05-06T19:30:00" datetime="2019-05-06T19:30:00">7:30pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202396313'><span class='fn org p-name'>Portland</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">OR</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">us</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=,%20Portland%20OR%20%20us'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>In May, IDEO.org and +Acumen will once again be offering their highly regarded free 9-week online course, Design Kit: Course for Human-Centered Design. As we do regularly, Portland Community Design Thinkers will be hosting a special meetup on May 6, where we'll explain what the course is about and what you can expect from it. And for those interested in participating, we'll help you form teams of local colleagues with whom you can work, which we've found vastly improves both completion rates and the experience as a whole.</p> <p> </p><p>Created by IDEO.org for those who are relatively new to design thinking, +Acumen's free Design Kit: Course for Human-Centered Design is probably one of the best and most immersive resources anywhere for getting up to speed on the nuts and bolts of HCD. This meetup is specifically for those interested in learning more about the course and helping to form working teams. Please note PCDT is <em>not</em> managing this course -- you'll be on your own for that. But we're keen to give anyone interested a leg up in getting off to the best possible start with a group of other eager local participants, and you're welcome to use our own Slack channel for course communication and organizing, as many groups have previously done.</p> <p>Read more about the course at the below link.</p> <p>In brief, it's a nine-week online FREE curriculum that will introduce participants to the concepts of human-centered design and how this approach can be used to create innovative, effective, and sustainable solutions.</p> <p>During those nine weeks, you'll work online (and off) with a group of 2-6 people, learning the HCD process by applying it to one of three pre-crafted real world design challenges. (You'll also have a choice to craft your own challenge.) Each week you will explore the fundamental concepts through readings, case studies, and short videos. Then you'll meet in-person with your design team to get your hands dirty practicing the relevant human-centered design methods.</p> <p>Let's get as many teams together as we can for the next course! Read more at this link: <a href="http://www.plusacumen.org/courses/introduction-human-centered-design" class="linkified">http://www.plusacumen.org/courses/introduction-human-centered-design</a></p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="https://www.meetup.com/Portland-Community-Design-Thinkers/events/260162054/">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>