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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;">UW English alumnus <b>Patrick Hofmann</b> will speak Thursday Oct 20 4:15-6pm at <o:p></o:p></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px;">Critical
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;">“</span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">What UW Taught Me About Design at Google</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: white;">Patrick Hofmann </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">UW alumnus (Honours English Rhetoric & Professional Writing) discusses how his training helped him move from
technical writer to information architect and finally as a user experience designer at Google. He talks about the foundations of audience analysis, technical writing, and digital arts that he employs in his work today.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div>Dr. Frankie Condon</div>
<div>Associate Professor of English Language and Literature</div>
<div>University of Waterloo</div>
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is not only dream and vision; </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">the
f</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">oundations for a future of change, a </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">bridge
across our fears of what has never been before.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center; widows: 1;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 254, 254);">~</span>Audre Lorde.</span></div>
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