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SUMMARY:PhillyCHI June Meeting - Austin Govella
LOCATION:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
DESCRIPTION:“Maximum Value Design: Strategies for Creating a Larger Impact 
 on the Business”
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\nTime: 6 - 8 pm
\n* Meet & greet from 6 - 6:30 pm *
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 Location: Berger Auditorium, Skirkanich Hall, University of Pennsylvania
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 210 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
\nMap: http://www.facilities.
 upenn.edu/mapsBldgs/view_map.php3?id=140
\nRSVP: phillyCHI@gmail.com - Plea
 se RSVP by Wednesday, June 27, 2007
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\nAbout the Presentation: The world 
 over, designers are busy with day-to-day projects and business as usual tha
 t they can’t find time to work on bigger issues, the mythical strategic des
 ign.
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\nFortunately, strategic design isn’t a type of work: it’s a way yo
 u work.
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\nWe can adjust our tools and techniques to become more relevant
  and offer more value to our organizations. By changing how we approach spe
 cific tasks, we can transform lessons from small projects into frameworks t
 hat guide entire systems.
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\nThis presentation will discuss six experienc
 es, collected from experience collected at global IT companies, universitie
 s, political campaigns, interactive agencies, and financial institutions th
 at shows how common design deliverables can be used to influence – and chan
 ge – the broader organization.
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\nThough the examples and strategies are 
 useful for practitioners of any skill level in any discipline, newer and in
 termediate information architects, interaction designers, and user experien
 ce designers will learn the most.  Those interested in design strategy, inf
 ormation architecture, or user experience management will find the presenta
 tion especially useful.
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\nAbout the Presenter: Austin Govella works as a
  Senior Information Architect with Comcast Interactive Media. In his off-ti
 me, Austin works as a development editor for Boxes and Arrows (http://www.b
 oxesandarrows.com), the web’s premier user experience and design publicatio
 n.
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\nHe writes about IA, design, and business on his blog, Thinking and 
 Making (http://thinkingandmaking.com).
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