One year on, what have we learned? Join us for Interaction 22 ↗
Accountability
04 Feb, 4:15 pm
05 Feb, 12:15 am
05 Feb, 8:15 am
Morning show
Start the second day of Interaction 21 with a positive message and good energy about how we can learn from First Nations peoples holistic approach, thinking more deeply about the consequences of our work.
04 Feb, 11:15 pm
05 Feb, 7:15 am
05 Feb, 3:15 pm
Closing remarks & Meet the IxDA Board of Directors
Our leadership team are community members committed to advancing IxDA’s mission and vision. In 2020, we renewed out commitment to diversity, inclusion, and parity as core values. Meet the three new members who are stepping up into leadership roles and help us thank our members completing their terms.
04 Feb, 4:55 pm
05 Feb, 12:55 am
05 Feb, 8:55 am
Digital Lean thinking inside Education
Alessandra Rosa
Good education is expensive and only possible in person? try to teach with a pandemic at the small cities countryside of the Brazil.
04 Feb, 5:10 pm
05 Feb, 1:10 am
05 Feb, 9:10 am
2020 Regional Highlights
Our community includes more than 200 local groups in 84 countries around the globe. 2020 Regional Highlights reveal both our diversity and resilience in these exceptional times.
04 Feb, 5:20 pm
05 Feb, 1:20 am
05 Feb, 9:20 am
How 'seamless interaction' leads to exploitative design
Sophie Taylor
Designers strive for "seamless interaction"; an impossibly efficient user journey where the user achieves their goal without noticing the technology that brought them there. But how might UX Designers be leaving users blinded to the technology they’re engaging with? And what kind of exploitation does that leave them vulnerable to?
04 Feb, 5:35 pm
05 Feb, 1:35 am
05 Feb, 9:35 am
Carbon-Conscious Design: The impact of UX practices on energy efficiency and carbon footprint
Sanchit Soni
Through this talk, we will explore principles of sustainable interaction design and discuss relationships between UX, energy consumption, carbon footprint, and some potential solutions that can enable carbon-conscious design practice.
04 Feb, 5:55 pm
05 Feb, 1:55 am
05 Feb, 9:55 am
Compass Presents
Greg Petroff
Platforms with discrete users... why you want to work at one.
04 Feb, 6:05 pm
05 Feb, 2:05 am
05 Feb, 10:05 am
Teletherapy During the Covid Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities
Diane Schiano
The covid pandemic pushed psychotherapists across the US to remote practice. This talk tells a fascinating story of diverse and contextualized adaptation to a variety of teletherapy tools. Challenges and opportunities for both psychotherapy and interaction design are discussed.
04 Feb, 6:20 pm
05 Feb, 2:20 am
05 Feb, 10:20 am
Design built tools that broke journalism. Can we also build tools to fix it?
Catherine Woodiwiss
Thoughts and tips for a design practice that supports and empowers the journalism of tomorrow
04 Feb, 6:35 pm
05 Feb, 2:35 am
05 Feb, 10:35 am
Aligning Teams with Choreography
Séamus Byrne
In his talk, Séamus highlights the biggest obstacles to team integration and how to choreograph teams in 4 steps by using his "Team Alignment Canvas".
04 Feb, 4:20 pm
05 Feb, 12:20 am
05 Feb, 8:20 am
An Indigenous perspective to collaboration, experience, community and interaction: Designing 4 impacts!
Odile Joannette
04 Feb, 8:00 pm
05 Feb, 4:00 am
05 Feb, 12:00 pm
Welcome Back & Afternoon talks
04 Feb, 8:10 pm
05 Feb, 4:10 am
05 Feb, 12:10 pm
Argument for creating with climate
Gaurav Patekar
How can we use climate data to create art and design to foster climate literacy
04 Feb, 8:25 pm
05 Feb, 4:25 am
05 Feb, 12:25 pm
Designing for Trust in the Post-Truth Era
Jonathan H Brown
Do people trust the news because it's factual?
04 Feb, 8:50 pm
05 Feb, 4:50 am
05 Feb, 12:50 pm
How to lead a team in perilous times ?
Alberta Soranzo, Jenny Shirey
There is no playbook for a pandemic. The coronavirus is turning out to be a critical leadership stress test. What does good leadership look like in a time of crisis?
04 Feb, 8:50 pm
05 Feb, 4:50 am
05 Feb, 12:50 pm
How Democratic Design is helping us change
Mauricio Estrella
For over 75 years, Democratic Design has been at the core of every IKEA project. As times involved and eventually led us to the creation of digital products, we're now exploring what it means for our original design practice to tackle some of the challenges of modern digital products, from accessibility to sustainability.
04 Feb, 9:20 pm
05 Feb, 5:20 am
05 Feb, 1:20 pm
Interaction Awards Preview
2021 marks the 10th edition of the Interaction Awards. We’ll showcase some of the highlights that mark how our practice has evolved and some of the themes interaction designers have addressed along the way.
04 Feb, 9:25 pm
05 Feb, 5:25 am
05 Feb, 1:25 pm
Montréal shorts
A selection of short films by and about Montreal filmmakers
04 Feb, 9:40 pm
05 Feb, 5:40 am
05 Feb, 1:40 pm
How design communities can address social inequalities, racism and homophobia?
Rebecca Brooker, Max Masure, Pablo Stanley, Mitzi Okou
We invite you to be inspired by these fascinating design leaders who are breaking down barriers, driving change and transforming our industry. This panel will address the challenges of bias and social inequality in Design, share learnings on how to dismantle toxic systems and identify communal resources to sustain involvement.
04 Feb, 10:15 pm
05 Feb, 6:15 am
05 Feb, 2:15 pm
Qc History X: design in the fight against slavery and the erasure of history
Webster
04 Feb, 11:00 pm
05 Feb, 7:00 am
05 Feb, 3:00 pm
Q&A with Odile & Webster
Join Odile and Webster as they answers questions from the audience.
04 Feb, 7:00 pm
05 Feb, 3:00 am
05 Feb, 11:00 am
Somewhere over the Rainbow in Montreal
Somewhere over Rainbow, Glitters fly And all the disco that you dream of Dreams really do come true-ooh-ooh Surprise you'll see stars Makeup where the Sequins are hidden behind Where trouble melts like Death Drops High above the Highlighter that's where You'll find queens, oh Somewhere over Rainbow, Queens fly And the dream that you dare to Oh why, oh why Don’t you dance?