San Diego local chapters

The following associations in San Diego all participate in the local user experience network.

• AIGA San Diego: The San Diego local chapter of the American Institute for Graphic Arts is committed to furthering excellence in design as a broadly-defined discipline, strategic tool for business and cultural force.
• AMA San Diego: The San Diego American Marketing Association Chapter is dedicated to enhancing the local marketing community by offering valuable networking, industry information exchange, educational and career opportunities.
• San Diego ACM/SIGGRAPH: The San Diego local chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics objectives include the promotion of an increased knowledge of and greater interest in the educational, artistic, and scientific aspects and applications of modern computing in computer graphics.
• San Diego CHI and UPA: The San Diego CHI (Computer-Human Interaction) and San Diego UPA (Usability Professionals Association) mission is to bring together professionals from academia and industry to share ideas, research and practices in order to improve overall quality of HCI and Usability theory and application in San Diego County. This is a combined SIGCHI and UPA chapter.
• San Diego Software Industry Council: The San Diego Software Industry Council exists to foster and support the entrepreneurial spirit within the software and IT industry in San Diego, by providing an organized forum for the exchange of ideas, sharing of resources, and promotion of industry goals.
• SD STC: The San Diego local chapter of the Society for Technical Communication is an individual membership organization dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of technical communication.
• SDHFES: The San Diego local chapter of the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society mission is to promote the discovery and exchange of knowledge concerning the characteristics of human beings that are applicable to the design of systems and devices of all kinds.
• UX SIG: At a UX SIG meeting, a company presents a product for a free heuristic review. The product’s design is reviewed in terms of the business goals, target market, customers, and user characteristics. The end result is a list of ways to improve the design to increase revenue and reduce cost.

• Locales » San Diego, CA, USA