User Experience Designer in Southern California. You can reach me at kenny.c.chen at gmail.com
| March 26, 2009 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
This Meetup will focus on discussing Agile development within UX teams. More details to come as the event gets closer.
The event takes place March 26th, 7:30 PM at Mahalo
902 Colorado Ave
Santa Monica, CA 90401
| March 24, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
This will be the second meeting of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Usability Professionals’ Association. The initial meeting focused on the creation of the UPA Chapter, finding out who is currently a member, who was planning on becoming a member and what steps we need to take to formalize the Los Angeles charter. This meeting will be the final “informal” meeting. This will be an opportunity to get other UX folks involved in the organization, and have the opportunity to be involved in the leadership with our UPA Chapter.
The meetup takes place on Tuesday, March 24 2009 at 7:00 PM
Taix French Restuarant
1911 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90001
(213) 484-1265
To find out more, join the LA Usability Professionals Association Chapter Meetup group.
| April 19, 2009 | to | April 22, 2009 |
The UIE Web App Summit takes place April 19th to April 22nd at the Marriott Newport Beach Hotel & Spa in Newport Beach, CA.
You’ll meet the innovators and world-class designers behind today’s most successful web apps, including keynotes by Zappo’s CEO Tony Hsieh and the founder of User Interface Engineering, Jared Spool.
The four-day Summit was carefully crafted to include two days of intensive full-day workshops on form design, Ajax, RIAs, design deliverables, wireframes, accessibility, design patterns, and web standards. We round out the conference with two more days of featured presentations from world-renown experts, to give you fresh perspectives and new insights on today’s web app design challenges.
For more information, check out the Web App Summit.
2008 proved to be a great year for User Experience in Los Angeles and it is sure to grow in the new year. If you are looking to get involved, here are 3 great places to start in the Southern California area:
| August 20, 2008 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
IxDA Los Angeles is pleased to announce an event spotlighting the pioneering application design work that Identity Mine / REZN8 are doing for Microsoft Surface. At this hands-on event you’ll get to play with Surface and hear from the team at Identity Mine about designing break-through experiences for this convergence between the physical and virtual world.
Before, during and after the lively talks, we’ll have time to chill out and enjoy a tasty spread of food & drinks provided by our gracious hosts at Identity Mine / REZN8. Mingle with other local interaction designers and user experience professional as we discuss Surface computing and its potential for fully immersive environments.
40 person MAX (space is tight!) so RSVP today:
WHEN:
Wednesday, August 20th 7-9pm
WHERE:
Identity Mine / Rezn8.
6430 Sunset Blvd. Suite 500
Hollywood, CA 90028
PARKING
There is paid parking in the building. Metered street parking is also available throughout the area. Or save on gas and take the Red Line to the Hollywood/Vine station.
| July 24, 2008 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
For those of you who’ve been to the IA Summit in past years, this session will be familiar to you. This is an entire session dedicated to sharing a variety of deliverables for people to browse through, discuss and be inspired by. It’s a chance to see how others are communicating design to their coworkers and clients. Pick up some tips and tricks that your peers are using or participate to get feedback on your deliverables!
When:
7:00 PM, July 24th, 2008
Where:
Yahoo! Santa Monica
2450 Broadway
First floor - Training room
Santa Monica, CA 90404
| July 25, 2008 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
What can interaction designers learn from usability testing? Quite a bit! Usability testing is a great tool for improving and validating designs. Not every project requires usability testing and timeline and budget constraints often make it hard to accomplish. Nevertheless, most projects would benefit from at least some usability testing.
This IxDA Los Angeles Salon will be lead by interaction designers and usability practitioners who help us discuss the following questions:
* At what point in the interaction design process should usability testing be performed?
* What kinds of tests are most helpful for interaction design?
* Who should perform the tests? Labs vs. in-house.
* How to best analyze and interpret results to improve interaction design?
Before, during and after the lively discussion, we’ll have time to chill out and enjoy a tasty spread of food & drinks provided by our gracious hosts at HUGE LA.
100 person limit - RSVP today!
http://www.evite.com/app/publicUrl/UGTAXBYWVJYTYMZDEZFR/usability
WHEN
Wednesday, Jun 25th 7-9pm
WHERE
HUGE LA
11135 Weddington St., Suite 132
North Hollywood, CA, CA 91601 US
| May 28, 2008 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Come celebrate the first birthday of the LA-UX Meetup Group with others over food, drinks, music and Wii. You can RSVP at the LA-UX Meetup page (100 max). The event will be held at Avenue A | Razorfish on Wednesday, May 28 from 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM.
6060 Center Drive Suite 150
Los Angeles , CA 90045
| March 29, 2008 | ||
| 9:00 am | to | 5:00 pm |
CommunityNext will be held on Saturday, March 29th in Los Angeles, where speakers will discuss how different forms of social media are taking over the web. Attendees will learn how the web and media are changing - and what you can do to stay ahead of the curve.
Some of the UX related speakers include Aza Raskin - the president of Humanized and May Woo - user experience designer for SayNow.
| April 23, 2008 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
IxDA LA Salon and HUGE present Methodology Madness. A good methodology can help you organize your thoughts and, ideally, help you design better products. However, with so many methodology flavors out there, it can be a bit confusing. Goal-directed design? Contextual design? Scenario-based design? It’s madness! What are the real differences between them anyway? More importantly, how effectively can you use them where you work? After all, your work environment largely shapes your process.
This IxDA LA Salon features a panel discussion with experienced designers who practice various methodologies and the folks who hire them. They’ll talk about how working in-house or for an agency can shape your process and illuminate clues to selecting the method that’s best for your project and environment.
*Food & Drinks provided by our gracious hosts at HUGE. *50 person limit - RSVP today:
Click here to RSVP while space lasts.
This event will take place on Wednesday, April 23 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM at
HUGE LA
11135 Weddington St., Suite 131
North Hollywood, CA 91601
