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(Fulham) Sovereign Poker Club: Tuesday Tournament
Tue, Nov 10, 7:00 PMJoin us for our weekly Tuesday hold'em tournament in Fulham Broadway We have dealers, chips, great tables and a beautiful venue! Start time: 7 pm Early bird bonus if you arrive before 7:10 pm Unlimited rebuys until 8:30 (break) Tournament usually ends around 11pm. [Join the group chat now to become a member and play!](https://chat.whatsapp.com/LPc8P7TKBp79SeTXOkIfLt?s=cl&p=i&mlu=4&ilr=4&iam=2) See you there!
#6 - the design stroll: collab with The Startup Stroll
Sat, Nov 28, 10:00 AM**Walk, talk and help a founder solve a real problem with design - in collaboration with [The Startup Stroll](https://luma.com/thestartupstroll).** Exciting news! Our next event is another special edition - a collaboration with The Startup Stroll, a popular community for London based founders and builders. We’re teaming up with them for a morning in Hyde Park where we’ll use design thinking to tackle a real startup challenge together. **How it works:** Ahead of the event, founders can submit a social impact problem they’re working on. From these, we'll select one challenge to focus on. On the day, the founder will introduce their startup and problem. We’ll then split into small groups, and each will explore the challenge with design thinking as we stroll through the park. At the end, we’ll regroup to share ideas and help the founder leave with a concrete next step. **The Details:** * Date: Saturday 28th November, 10am - 12pm * Meeting point: WatchHouse Hanover (near Bond Street/Oxford Circus) * Route: After meeting at the cafe, we'll stroll to Hyde Park * What to bring: Comfortable shoes and an open mind. * Vibe: Friendly, curious and collaborative! **RSVP** Please also RSVP on Luma below so we can keep track of the numbers of attendees. [https://luma.com/tdnmdhad](https://luma.com/tdnmdhad) **Why Join?** If you’ve ever wanted to see what happens when designers and founders tackle a real problem together, this is your chance. It’s a new format for us and we’re excited to see how it works. **Who is this for?** Our events are for UX designers, researchers and other strategic and creative thinkers who are passionate about using their skills for social good, not just profit. For this event, we’re also welcoming founders and builders from the Startup Stroll community. **Who are the hosts?** [The Startup Stroll](https://luma.com/thestartupstroll) is a bi-monthly Saturday morning walk for founders and builders in London, run by Marion Boimond & Stefanie Mulder. They create space for the kind of honest conversations about building something that don’t happen at regular networking events. Max is a London based design researcher. Until recently he was based in Tokyo, where he ran a small design agency and spent over 10 years as a meetup organizer. He’s exploring ways to bring designers together to use our skills to work on meaningful problems. \*Please register via the Luma link below so we have accurate numbers across both communities. The actual number of attendees will be different to what appears on Meetup. [https://luma.com/tdnmdhad](https://luma.com/tdnmdhad)
London Designers x Developers - November Social Networking
Thu, Nov 19, 6:15 PMIt's time for another London Tech Social! 🎉 Come along for a relaxed evening of good conversations, new faces and plenty of opportunities to connect with London's creative and tech community. Whether you're a designer, developer, tech enthusiast or simply looking to meet like-minded people, everyone is welcome. Share ideas, exchange experiences, make new connections and who knows – you might even meet your next project partner! 🚀 So come along, bring your good vibes and enjoy an evening of networking without the formalities. We can't wait to see you there! 🙌
AND THE WINNER IS...
Sat, Nov 21, 12:00 PM...Selfridge's! Ignore for a moment the exclusion of bikes\*, 24/7, and TfL’s stated intention to enforce it, the most topical features of the pedestrianisation of London’s Oxford Street. The 'artist's impressions' used to promote the scheme show an unbroken, sunlit, ribbon, thronged with shoppers. Unfortunately, but necessarily, the use of 6 cross-streets, some no more than 75m apart, for general traffic, is continuing. So the ‘pedestrianised street’ is actually 6 pedestrian ‘rooms’! And each has to be protected along each cross-street: currently, with ‘Hostile Vehicle Mitigation’ (HVM) barriers and ramps, designed to stop vehicles, and deter bikes. But only one 'room' has the scale and presence to support such a wide pedestrian street.: between Orchard Street and Duke Street, in front of Selfridges. This space must surely be the whole point of the scheme? A new public piazza to rival St Mark's in Rome! This, when finished, will finally be the public realm to do justice to Daniel Burnham's stupendous 'temple of retailing'! Personally, I think it fully justifies the rough edges and cut corners of the rather hasty, rushed, launch. The other 'rooms'? I hesitate to say this, but without the animation and colour of the buses they're really rather barren. It's surely all about window shopping, and in the centre of this very wide street you can't see what's in the windows! Would the other Burnham's 'pragmatic approach' have worked better? To find out we’re going to meet at Tottenham Court Road Station, and see that road, (itself now restricted to buses and bikes only, 0800-1900, Monday-Saturday), before making our way along the eastern half of Oxford Street (currently buses, taxis and bikes only, 0700-1900, Monday-Saturday). We’ll see the evidence of the original residential use of the street in its surviving narrow, tall plot sizes, a few of which remain. And the new generation of 2- and 3- storey shopfronts, designed for display, advertising and brand marketing, rather than promoting purchases. This is a useful reference of the original public realm when shared with buses, taxis and bikes. In the traffic-free zone the 'cross street challenges' become clear: suddenly, you have to resume 360° scanning to make sure you’re not whacked! And those bikes? I don't think they're going to be a problem. During a recent survey, in the entire length, I saw only three incursions: a guy on a cargo bike heavily laden with packages, 2 tourists on 'Lime' bikes, who looked lost, and stopped in the middle of one of the 'rooms', and yes, one Deliveroo rider hurrying to his customer! Personally I can’t wait to see, hear and feel, a full Symphony Orchestra, performing Mozart's Piano Concerto No 22, in front of Selfridges. And if it's sponsored by 'Tfl in partnership with Puma'? Welcome to capitalism! We can discuss it over lunch afterwards at ‘The Grazing Goat’ PH in New Quebec Street. Hope you can come! Andy \*Emergency vehicles, wheelchairs, mobility scooters, kids’ bikes and pushchairs are exempt. Delivery and servicing vehicles permitted 0000-0700hrs
Nobody Asked for the Cookie Banner: The Mistake We Can’t Afford with AI
Tue, Nov 17, 5:30 PMLast month our founder, [Sandra Gonzalez](https://lnkd.in/p/ejjWC6fG), delivered a thought-provoking keynote at The Barbican for The Flux Convergence conference. She is bringing the extended version this talk to the UX for Change community. Curious about the title? Here is the the premise. No law has ever required a cookie banner. The rules asked for informed consent and left the interface to us, and what our design profession built, collectively, is the most disliked pattern on the web. This talk is about what happened and why it can be happening again right now, as the EU AI Act starts to be rolled out. Last time the worst case scenario was a better-targeted advert. This time the stakes are much higher. Sandra will walk you through six real, documented cases and show how each one maps to a law built to prevent these type of cases to happen again, and which of those protections are already in force and which won’t arrive until 2027 or later. This won’t be a lecture you sit through politely. It’s a provocation our founder invites the community to wrestle with, because the UX community is well positioned to be at the forefront of not making the same mistakes. Come for the talk. Stay for the conversation.
Nature Walk & Talk on How We Can Create Social Impact
Sat, Nov 21, 11:00 AMLet's take some time to go out and enjoy nature. Join us on this unique UXers Nature Walk and learn about the area we are focused on this year to drive social impact through our [Responsible Design for Change Fellowship](https://www.ux4change.org/responsible-design-for-change-fellowship/). Get a chance to meet our founder, Sandra Gonzalez, and some of the fellows who graduated from The Responsible Design for Change Fellowship. This is a very wonderful opportunity to connect with nature and our community. You are welcome to bring your pet and/or your children. We will start and end the walk at the Princess of Wales to share a drink and network a bit. We look forward to spending a lovely morning with you.
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