This year’s first ever, fully digital ‘Pictoplasma in Isolation’ awaits all character pioneers, creatives and enthusiasts for a special celebration of contemporary character design and art. Coming September we’ll be live-broadcasting 2 full days worth of character inspiration, with more than 30 artist talks, fresh animation screenings, a special symposium, spreading visual greatness and inspiration into the safe space of your own four walls, no matter where you are…all online, all for free.

This is member-only virtual event in which you will live-curate an exhibition featuring your favorite examples of great, impactful design. There will be design sketches, games, spectacular prizes, and we will be sharing the vision and impact of Design Museum Everywhere, and hearing from designers from around the world about the designs they can’t live without.

Andra “AJ” Johnson runs the bar program at Seranata, co-founded DMV Black Restaurant Week, and is writing a book about the Black experience in hospitality — so she’s the perfect person to share the history of the Black bar culture in DC and lead this cocktail-making, history-learning session during DC Design Week 2020. Ticket price includes cocktail kit, available for local DMV pickup only.

You’ve heard of T’Challa, Captain America, Hellboy, Luke Cage and Batman, right? Get ready to meet Shawn Martinbrough, the renowned illustrator and artist who helped bring these characters – and more – to life.

Join us online for a casual meet-up to support our current and new creative community members. Discuss design, WFH, exchange ideas or current briefs, and meet people to collaborate with all from the safety of your own home. There will even be a chance for you to take the floor and share your project with the entire group.

Join Jennifer White-Johnson and Mishele Carlson of Related Tactics for a discussion about the power of print and how zines as a medium reimagine and redesign existing narratives.

An insightful workshop on how to design experiences that build trust with empathy and inclusion. It this session we'll explain how emotional design – the intersection of design and psychology – can help you and your team design better experiences for all.

A three day virtual festival exploring the evolution and future of design, focusing on new and emerging technologies. Bringing together people from different backgrounds and from all around the world to collaborate and network around the shared topic of UX & Design. Featuring 18 expert speakers and 6 workshops as well as excellent networking opportunities: You will have the chance to connect with up to 500 UXperts!

This joint initiative will be 100% online and wants to keep boosting and providing visibility to the innovation ecosystem in the current context. It will consist on a series of weekly online encounters focused on specific tracks that will feature the best international startups, venture capital funds, and the most important corporations in each industry.

Understand how to carry out UX research and user testing, as well as prototype a mobile UI in XD. A crash course in UX design for everyone where we cover an entire design process: research, wireframing and prototyping using Adobe XD, user testing and more. Run by a professional designer it will include 50% theory and 50% practice, and will teach you fundamentals of UX & UI design and prepare you for getting into a booming industry.

A fascinating workshop on how to use behavioural science to optimise and personalise user experiences. In this session, you’ll learn the power of the personalised nudge – that is, the power of the subconscious and how users make decisions, how you can measure this through data, and how to use it to engage your users and influence their behaviour.

An interactive hands-on workshop on service design run by an experienced designer. You'll leave with plenty of knowledge on how to use service design in your company: from its core principles, visual thinking and research techniques, to alignment diagrams and creating personas, mapping customer journey and Business Model Canvas, plus much more.

JAM Online is a 5-day online experience focused on expanding your maker's toolkit through 12 honest stories from peers, 10 hands-on workshops, and 800+ attendees.