The UX Book Club of Chicago met on July 14, 2021 over Zoom to discuss Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, our first-ever discussion dedicated to a work of fiction.
The UX Book Club of Chicago met on March 11, 2021, over Zoom to discuss Better Allies: Everyday Actions to Create Inclusive, Engaging Workplaces by Karen Catlin.
The UX Book Club of Chicago met on February 23, 2021 over Zoom to discuss Melissa Gregg’s Counterproductive: Time Management in the Knowledge Economy.
The UX Book Club of Chicago met on January 14, 2021 over Zoom to discuss Kelly Small’s The Conscious Creative.
Over the years, people have asked us at the UX Book Club of Chicago what they should consider if they are interested in starting a UX or other kind of design book club where they live or work. Our latest request came from Uruguay! We typically answer these…
The UX Book Club of Chicago recently held its final meeting of 2020. The year was a tumultuous one to say the least. With the book club, we did not try to ignore the tumult. We tried instead to read books to help us think critically about urgent questions around us and have frank conversations…
The UX Book Club of Chicago met on Zoom on December 10 to discuss Xiaowei Wang’s Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China’s Countryside.
The UX Book Club of Chicago met on Tuesday, October 20 over Zoom to discuss Automating Inequality: How…
The UX Book Club of Chicago met on October 16 to discuss Mike Montiero’s Ruined by Design.
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The UX Book Club of Chicago met on December 11, 2019, to discuss Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace.
The UX Book Club of Chicago met over Zoom on September 16 to discuss What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa?, edited by Clapperton Chakanetsa…
The UX Book Club of Chicago met on Wednesday, July 15 over Zoom to discuss The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli.
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The UX Book Club of Chicago met on Thursday, May 7 over Zoom to discuss Ruha Benjamin’s Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code.
The UX Book Club of Chicago met on Thursday, April 16 over Zoom to discuss Don’t Make Me Think Revisited by Steve Krug. This was the third edition of the book issued in 2013. The second edition came out…
The UX Book Club of Chicago met on Thursday, February 13 at the offices of Neighborhoods.com to discuss Liz Lerman and John Borstel’s Critical Response Process: A Method for…
The UX Book Club of Chicago has wrapped up another year. We’ve taken a moment to reflect on 2019 and are excited to share some of our early plans for 2020.
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The UX Book Club of Chicago met on November 7th to discuss Erving Goffman’s Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior.
The UX Book Club of Chicago met on September 12th to discuss Andrew Causey’s Drawn to See: Drawing as an Ethnographic Method. Technomic and Winsight were our…
A dozen members of the UX Book Club of Chicago met at the Chicago office of Pillar Technology on August 9th to discuss Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design by Kat Holmes.
The UX Book Club of Chicago met at the at NVISA’s Chicago office on June 6th to discuss Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows.
The UX Book Club of Chicago met at the Chicago office of Wyzant on April 3rd to discuss This is Service Design Doing by Mark Stickdorn, Markus Edgar Hormess, Adam Lawrence, and Jakob Schneider.
The UX Book Club of Chicago met at the Chicago offices of Cars.com on May 7th to discuss The Real World of Technology Ursula M. Franklin.
