Meet up and smell the coffee

Hi all! Please use this discussion thread to discuss Meet up and smell the coffee held on Mar 8, 2023. Feel free to ask questions about the place, date and time, agenda of the meeting, or anything else.

So yeah, I just joined IDF recently and haven’t found any meetups in London so I’m thinking (helped by the nudge from this platform; nicely done!) why not set one up myself?

It’s guaranteed to be small and informal, and unless I find a different venue the coffee won’t be amazing. But meeting new UX practitioners and hearing your stories will!

It would be great if we can attend via online too ?

As it is in my neighbourhood, I will try my best to make it - all depending on whether clients wants me to do something else.

Adding, there is a few Costa coffee shops close by Shoreditch High Street Station. They have bigger coffee cups and comfortable seating :-)

Thanks for the excellent response; I feel I need to limit the numbers but can’t find a way to do it…

A London IDF meetup sounds like a great idea.

But 11am on a weekday? I’m guessing this is an idea that is more geared towards freelancers.

Great work Per. Please keep them coming as I won’t be able to attend this one but certainly will in future

Hi Per, I’ve got this in my diary for Wednesday. Can you confirm if it’s 1st or 8th please?

Hey Per, 11-12 on a weekday is indeed a tough one, will try to join.

Hi, Per! Thanks for setting this up. I would love to attend but will be working at the time. Perhaps we should set another up for a weekday evening for those of us who can’t make it in the daytime.

Hi all, I’m very much looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday. I will be finalizing the venue in the next 24 hours and will update you here.

I don’t have much of an agenda so I’d like you all to answer the following question in this thread:

What would be a great outcome of this meet-up?

To me, it’s just to get to know some fellow designers, hear some stories, and learn from people. Specifically, I’m curious to hear if anyone can share their experience of using storytelling in their work.

How about you?

Morning all, I’m very much looking forward to seeing you tomorrow. I note that there are no responses to my last messages and I’m starting to wonder whether people will actually turn up tomorrow. I’m new to the IDF and the meetups so I’m unsure how it normally works, but can I just ask you all to update your status so we all know who will be attending?

Just to confirm it’s at coffee matters and not Pret.

So, thank you Gurdeet for attending the meet-up! 😅🎉 It was really interesting to hear about your research projects and your Notion portfolio is awesome.

My apologies to anyone who may have gone to Pret instead (the original venue). I understand that if you had added the event to your Google calendar the location would not have updated when I changed it. You live and learn.

On that note something we now know is that Coffee Matters is a great venue, so I’m keen to organise more meet-ups there. Probably evening time though. And when there’s no sleet coming down.