Events at DT

This week has been super crazy for me, as we had two huge back-to-back events at DT!  Since one of my duties is event planning, you can imagine it was a crazy week for me.

Our first event was Tuesday, and we had Nir Eyal fly in from San Francisco to conduct a workshop on designing user engagement and habits.  We had quite a turnout - from our team here at DT and also individuals from around the area - we even had a few guests who traveled from LA for the workshop!  It was a really interesting night and a great opportunity for learning.

On Wednesday we had another successful DT event - a UX Speakeasy Meetup!  UX Speakeay is a group that meets once a month at different venues around San Diego.  They had never treated their meetup as an actual speakeasy so we decided to go ahead and do it!  We secretly decorated a back conference room so that it was 1920's style, complete with our very own flapper bartender, low lighting, jazz music, fireplace youtube video, and 1920's themed cocktails!  Our CEO, Chuck Longanecker, spoke about creating design culture, while Pete and David from I.D.E.A. District shared their vision of creating a design community in downtown San Diego.  It was a great night of networking, learning, and drinking.

On Thursday during lunch, Jessica, Amanda, and I (girls I work with) went to a restaurant called the Knotty Barrel for some food and a game of Shuffleboard.  It was a blast!