Local meeting Editor

The Local meeting editor assists the Local Ambassadors with local events for the calendar. The editor applies our content guidelines by adjusting tagging and making other small edits to local meeting descriptions. Sometimes the editor will enter in local meetings (mostly for locales without an ambassador).

20 years of design in St. Louis (MO, USA)

Thursday, April 16th, 2009
May 7, 2009
6:00 pmto8:00 pm

Celebrate 20 years of AIGA in St. Louis at the annual meeting for this local chapter. Hear this year’s Fellow Awards and other ways they are supporting design in the St. Louis community.

See stlouis.aiga.org for more information.

IA Summit + Interaction Recap (St. Louis, MO, USA)

Monday, April 13th, 2009
April 28, 2009
6:00 pmto7:30 pm

Two of the biggest User Experience conferences occurred in the first quarter of 2009, Interactions 09 and IA Summit 2009. Nathan Verrill attended Interactions and Brad Nunnally attended the IA Summit and have come back to give the St. Louis User Experience community a recap.

When: April 28th, 2009 6:00-7:30 (Social Drinks @ Schafly Tap Room after wards)

Where: Spoke Interactive Marketing

More about this event:

This meeting is the St. Louis IxDA Meet Up for April.

Taxonomy is User Experience (Philadelphia, PA, USA)

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
February 26, 2008
6:00 pmto8:00 pm

The PhillyCHI February Meeting is Taxonomy is User Experience by Dave Cooksey. This presentation will approach taxonomies from the user’s perspective. It will begin by introducing a simple conceptual framework that communicates the centrality of taxonomies to user experience. Then, the presentation will cover:

  • the virtues of thinking of taxonomy in terms of the user experience and not simply as data or classification
  • ways of talking about taxonomy that clearly communicate its value to the business and help promote taxonomy as a practice
  • how to craft a user-centric taxonomy by examining several e-commerce redesign case studies

By discussing taxonomy and metadata in terms of user experience, we will learn to communicate better with the business, inform our co-workers how to create more engaging user experiences, and bring the user into the taxonomy creation process.

Tour of IBM’s Innovation Centre (Toronto, ON, Canada)

Monday, February 4th, 2008
February 27, 2008
7:00 pmto9:00 pm

The February ToRCHI meeting is a Tour of IBM’s Innovation Centre. The IBM Customer Facing Solutions (CFS) User Experience team, working out of the Toronto Innovation Centre is a one-stop-shop for interactive solutions. We deliver exceptional user experiences across all customer touch points, implementing multichannel business solutions for clients in all sectors across Canada, the U.S., and internationally.

IBM’s User Centered Design (UCD) methodology encompasses the entire process of designing and developing compelling experiences for the Web, kiosks, intranets, business applications, pervasive devices, and more. UCD is an iterative methodology that integrates the outputs of differentiated strategic, creative, and technical work streams to build a compelling interactive customer experience.

See the ToRCHI site for more information.

GatewayCHI meeting (St. Louis, MO, USA)

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
February 27, 2008
5:30 pm

The GatewayCHI monthly meeting for February will be on the 27th.

GatewayCHI exists to share and support a common interest in usability and interface design, to improve the knowledge and skills of our members in user interface practices, and to educate the St. Louis community about the value and practice of usability and interface design in all components of system and software development.

Wisconsin UPA meeting (Madison, WI, USA)

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
February 20, 2008

The Wisconsin UPA chapter has chosen the third week of the month for meetings to help form the chapter.

The February meeting will be on the 20th at Caribou Coffee (Time TBD).

See the Wisconsin UPA site for more information about the chapter and how you can get involved to help make the chapter more active.