The second ever IxDA Helsinki meetup was held on Jan 29th at Nolla. With 30 people in the audience, Janne Korhonen from Seos, a company focused on sustainable innovation, gave a demystifying presentation on sustainable design:
In the presentation, Janne posed a big question:
What do interaction design and sustainability have to do with each other?
For an answer, click on the image above to find an expanded version the handy checklist for sustainable interaction and service design, found in the final slide of the presentation.
As organizers, we would like to hear from you! Give us your feedback on the events and share your thoughts and ideas in the blog comments or via e-mail: helsinki.ixda@gmail.com
Resources on sustainable design for designers:
An A-B-C-D Approach to Making Better Products
A sustainable design model developed by IDEO and BSR with instructions on how to introduce sustainable design in organizations.
Eco-indicator 99 – Manual for Designers
An easily approachable, guide to Life Cycle Impact Assessment.
Sustainable Services – An Innovation Workbook
A sustainable design manual which has proven especially useful for Seos.
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The second IxDA Helsinki meetup will be held at the familiar Ravintola Nolla. This time we’ll hook up in the other end of the restaurant for some more space and projection capabilities.
Janne Korhonen from Seos will present a point of view on sustainable design and it’s value. The overall feel of the evening will still be loose, informal & relaxed. Check out the participants at Facebook: http://is.gd/gqQ9
Last time we had more than 35 people stopping by, looking forward to top that this time. Welcome!!
The first ever IxDA Helsinki Meeting took place on Thursday 13.11.2008 in Restaurant Nolla.
An impressive number of 35-40 people from 17 companies, into interaction design, showed up to meet and get to know each other.
Among the attendees were Brian Cronin (below, far left) and Rachel Hinman from Adaptive Path, San Francisco, who just happened to be in Helsinki at that time – thx for dropping by!
The first evening was very informal, starting with a short welcome by Sami Niemelä, with a quick glance at the initial plans for IxDA Helsinki activities.
After the brief intro, everybody were given the task to draw and illustrate “Interaction Design” on a single post-it note.
This was partly group warm-up, partly an unethical probe into the collective subconsciousness of the local interaction designer community and partly a chance to get us to get our hands on some sticky notes on the spare time. 
Needless to say, the evening turned out better than us organizers ever expected. A big “Thank You!” to everyone who dropped by, it was fun.
>> More photos in Flickr
The next event will also be held at Nolla on Thursday 29.1.2009 at 18:00. See you there!
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