Vancouver Design Community

Thank you to everyone who came to our design x PM jam on Saturday! It was a crazy, jam-packed day of learning, designing, and presenting! Our amazing participants took on the challenge of language accessibility for airlines by working together as designers and project managers on the discovery phase and they came up with some incredible solutions! We hope this jam can give you some insight on what it is like to work collaboratively across teams! 🛠️ Special thank you to PM Hive for cohosting and CaterDash for providing us with well-deserved nourishment 🤤 Also thank you to our mentors: Ryan Yao Derick Tsang Sonya SHI Kasey Fu Divya Rakhiani Amy Lu Hope to see some of you again soon at our last social of the year! 💙 💚 #vancouverdesigncommunity #vdc #vdcevents

NOT EVEN THE 2010 FIFA WORLD CUP OCTOPUS COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS (but you probably did!) 🐙⚽   Because we're back with our last social for the year!! 🥳      Fall into the autumn season with your favourite design crew in just a few short weeks as we bring in the holiday festivities one last time at Steamworks Brewing Co. Mt.Pleasant with our.. Falltime Social Vol.3 ! ✨ Share with us what you've been working on, shows you've been catching up to (Arcane season 2?? ), music you've been vibing with and more as we cooldown for the holidays with and drinks and better company! 💙  You know the drill so we'll see you there! Invite your friends and grab a spot with us here: https://lu.ma/cgh3y5pa ⬅️ 🍻What: Falltime Social Vol.3 - Mariah Carey is around the block edition    🗺️Where: Steamworks Mt. Pleasant ⏱️When: Tuesday 26th November 5:30PM - 7:30PM 🎟️Price: FREE (just buy a drink and some food to support! +gratuity) 

Hope you all had a wonderful long weekend ~ 🥳 We're two week into November which means that the year is also almost ending! 😰 But the events don't stop... because up next is a workshop! 👨💻 Ever wanted to experience what it's like working closely with a PM? :star-struck: How about learning how to scope out problems, understand constraints and present your design decisions in a team? Well, now you can with... VDC's Design x PM Jam! (in collaboration with PM Hive)  Coming fresh off the grill on Saturday the 23rd! 🔥 Shake off those nerves and test your analytical, communication and presentation skills in this concentrated sprint-like event where you will be tackling a real-life problem alongside other designers and product managers in the field! No matter what level of designer you are, we want to create an opportunity that tests you on other aspects of the role so hop on in and enjoy a creative and constructive Saturday with us (and who knows, maybe you'll find some other design/PM buddies along the way!) 💪 We're workshopping this to see if it could stay as a series but don't skip out on this rare opportunity! Sign up here:https://lu.ma/pjuquw1o 💊What: Design x PM Jam - Test your design thinking, analytical and presentation skills! 🗺️Where: Quadient Accounts Payable Automation by Beanworks (it's an accounting firm!) ⏱️ When: Saturday 23rd November 9:30AM - 4:00PM 🎟️Price: $10.00

Hey everyone!! Hope you're all having an amazing 🎃 SPOOKTOBER🎃 While we are all traversing all these spooky and weird times, I want y'all to know that you got us... and we got you! That's right!! It's social time!!    Get ready to masquerade your way into our  ✨free✨ Falltime Social Vol.2 as we once catch up with your favourite design crew and discuss all the new shows getting a new season and much more! Join us on Tuesday 29th at 5:30PM at Please! Beverage Co.. for a more relaxed, less-sitting-more-standing social with some food and drinks! (and why not make some new friends along the way too~) 🍻 We also want to learn more about our community too! Sign up for a spot here (and answer one simple question!): https://lu.ma/0j1ctqy7 ⬅️ 🎃What: Falltime Social Vol.2 - Come tell us about your favourite shows! 🗺️ Where: Please! Beverage Co.  ⏰When: Tuesday 29th October 5:30PM - 7:30PM (next next Tuesday!)  🎫Price: $0.00 (just buy a drink and some food to support Please!) 

THE BRICKS KEEP STACKING 🧱AND WE KEEP BUILDING 🧱 IT'S WORKSHOP TIME!! Hey hey! Guess it's been a minute ever since our last workshop huh? Honestly, I've been missing out on them too... (and we'll have more in the future!)But guess what, they're back! And what's even more interesting is that we are going to be using.........LEGOS®!            That's right! At the heart of every design lies within a veil of problem solving, nuances and most importantly, logic. With a deep focus on service design, this workshop looks to bring a new perspective of how we can think and solve complex problems with our hands. Adapting the strategic planning method of LEGO® Serious Play , this workshop brings in a way of problem solving with a method developed almost 30 years ago and hopefully one that you've never seen before!   Get your hands working with us on Saturday, October 19th at the beautiful Northeastern University Vancouver campus as we spend just a few hours on learning a new intricate method of approaching the design thinking process!Facilitating this workshop will be a seasoned educator, David Newman, PhD (LEGO® Serious Play facilitator since 2022) and our very own Dr. Matthias Klenk Hope to see you all there! Grab a spot here: https://lu.ma/099c8ub4 🧱 What: LEGO® Serious Play® - A Workshop for Service Design 🗺️ Where: Northeastern University Vancouver 🕰️ When: Saturday October 19th, 2024 10:00AM -1:00 PM 🎟️ Price: $6.50

VDC is proud of partnering with PM Hive and Vancouver.dev to bring the inaugural Vancouver Tech Week to life!

What a great panel we had! 🤩 Friday night marked our debut collab event with PM Hive, a PM-focused community with the goal to shine more light on the designer-PM relationship within different industries. With panelists like Kasey Fu, Jordan Yep, Tiffany Hui, and Michelle Chen all from varying company sizes, we were able to gain a lot from their unique journeys as they brought valuable insights, giving us a very balanced view on what Design-PM collaboration looks like! From broad strokes on product pipeline working in Microsoft and Electronic Arts (EA) to the little adjustments we can make to smoothen out collaboration in Shopify and Jostle, there was something for everyone as we stayed engaged throughout an evening of great conversation. Some valuable insights we wanted to highlight from the event were: Different types of company structures vary the way collaboration works but transparency and communication is always key. 🔑 Being able to test and get a feel of your product sooner than later is important in catching inconsistencies. ⚙ Value based prioritization helps greatly in pushing the needle and moving closer to the goal ⛰ Co-creation doesn't happen in a bubble and leveraging strengths of each section of your company will lead to better results. 🤝 Getting to know your developers and PMs on a more personal level will help you understand their ways of thinking and enable each other to understand working styles 👩💻 But this is just the surface of it all. We're excited to continue our partnership with PM Hive and we can't wait to show you what we have in store next time! (keep your eyes peeled here!) 🚀

Matt K. of UX was Here and adplist.org is generously sponsoring 5 tickets for people who want to join our event in collaboration with PM Hive Claim your free ticket right now. Opened up 5 more spots 🙏

It's that time of the year where you cannot wait until Halloween 🎃, Thanksgiving 🦃 and Christmas 🎄 are here... Well, we're bringing you all of the vibes and feels of these major holiday's with our event of the month. You'll be welcome to attend this Design x PM panel (in collab with PM Hive) with a well-knit group 👊 of people designer / PM friends. This panel shall also be familiar 😇 but surprising 😮 at the same time as we don't do collaborative panels like these. Aight, what's the event again? It's Design Hivemind - A Design and PM panel where experienced designers and PMs will basically share their secrets about how they collaborate with their product or design partners. We have two amazing designers with work experience at some reputed places like SAP (previously) and Shopify as well two awesome PMs from Microsoft (previously) and EA. Who doesn't want to learn about how designers and PMs collab at Shopify? How is it different to collaborate at a video gaming company than say an enterprise or a start-up? Now that I got your attention 👂👁️, come join us, take a sip of catered beverages (that's why this event is $5!), and meet talented and well-spoken folks who are eager to spill their know-how on collaboration. Here is the line-up: - Kasey Fu (ex-Microsoft, Plainview, mid-size)  - Tiffany Hui (Shopify, unicorn)  - Michelle Chen (PM, EA, consumer enterprise)  - Jordan Yep (ex-SAP, Jostle, startup) Moderated by our very own Raymond Xian What: A Design & PM panel: How can we best collaborate?  Where: The Post at 750 [Start-up Studio]  When: Friday, September 13th, 6:00 - 8:30 PM  Price: $5 Your ticket to becoming better collaborator -> https://lu.ma/sa67jqys For the price of a latte, learn from the best in Vancouver tech, leave with actionable takeaways for your job / promotion or just meet a potential co-worker / LinkedIn connection.  See you on the 13th! 🫡

What a week we had at Vancouver Design Community! We had our team meeting in person at WeWork and guess who showed up? None other than Grace Ling ✨ of Design Buddies... Grace was gracious enough to come to Mount Pleasant to ✨vibe✨ with us for an hour or so on Friday where we talked about some of our upcoming events (watch this space!) and other initiatives to connect the designers in our amazing community with better opportunities. We also made sure to also grab matcha afterwards and showed Grace around Science World / False Creek briefly. Grace, you are an inspiration to all and hope you had an awesome time learning about our community. See you next time! 🫶