<div dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-3808ed21-c2ef-f3a8-f604-7d654faea588"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2017 Designing for Digital Dates & Location Announced</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Designing for Digital 2017 (d4d17) is April 3-5 in Austin, TX and</span><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Online.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.designingfordigital.com/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.designingfordigital.com</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We invite you to join us in Austin, Texas at UT Austin’s AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center for </span><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">a design conference that aims to approach the library digital experience from a holistic point of view. We consider library services, physical layout, and overall strategy starting with a variety of users and use cases across these tracks:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">--Tools & Methods</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">--UX in Practice</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">--Service & Physical Design</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">--Trends, Emerging Issues & the Future of UX</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For 2017, you can expect a 1/2 day longer length program (2.5 days), new workshops, increased networking events and top notch speakers.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Yes, d4d17 is for you!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The conference is meant to bring together UX professionals, web designers, managers, researchers, strategists and librarians of all types to examine the current user’s experience of the library and design the future of libraries in the modern, digital world.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Registration and on property housing blocks are now open.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.designingfordigital.com/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.designingfordigital.com</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Designing for Digital 2017 is co-located with the 12th Annual Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference (ER&L)</span></p><br></span><div><br></div></div>