The UXnet calendar compiles the list of upcoming local events from each locale into a single listing. Major user experience-related conferences (outside of a locale served by a local ambassador) are also included. Additional events can be found on other calendars.
Recently added events are listed below; use the calendar on the right to find upcoming events by date.
| February 16, 2009 | to | February 20, 2009 |
| March 30, 2009 | to | April 3, 2009 |
Earn your Certified Usability Analyst™ (CUA) credential
HFI-Certified Usability Analysts pass an examination demonstrating their mastery of the fundamental principles of user-centered design. The following HFI courses provide a solid foundation in this knowledge. You can take the certification exam without having to take these courses.
Course 1. User-Centered Analysis and Conceptual Design
User-centered analysis is the basis for designing software interfaces that are intuitive and easy to use. In this course, you’ll learn the methods of analyzing user requirements.
Course 2. The Science and Art of Effective Web and Application Design
This seminar draws on the most up-to-date usability research and on the principles of successful visual design. You will learn how to create winning Web sites that balance user performance and visual appeal.
Course 3. Practical Usability Testing
A critical component of creating a user-centered application is progressive testing. This seminar provides practical techniques to help you move the design into accordance with the user’s needs, limitations, mental models and cognitive styles.
Course 4. Putting Research into Practice
This seminar provides participants a fast-paced review of recent usability research with a distinct “How can I use this?” focus.
More information at humanfactors.com.
| February 16, 2009 | to | February 20, 2009 |
| March 30, 2009 | to | April 3, 2009 |
Earn your Certified Usability Analyst™ (CUA) credential
HFI-Certified Usability Analysts pass an examination demonstrating their mastery of the fundamental principles of user-centered design. The following HFI courses provide a solid foundation in this knowledge.
Course 1. User-Centered Analysis and Conceptual Design
User-centered analysis is the basis for designing software interfaces that are intuitive and easy to use. In this course, you’ll learn the methods of analyzing user requirements.
Course 2. The Science and Art of Effective Web and Application Design
This seminar draws on the most up-to-date usability research and on the principles of successful visual design. You will learn how to create winning Web sites that balance user performance and visual appeal.
Course 3. Practical Usability Testing
A critical component of creating a user-centered application is progressive testing. This seminar provides practical techniques to help you move the design into accordance with the user’s needs, limitations, mental models and cognitive styles.
Course 4. Putting Research into Practice
This seminar provides participants a fast-paced review of recent usability research with a distinct “How can I use this?” focus.
More information at humanfactors.com.
| February 11, 2009 | to | February 13, 2009 |
This course provides the essential knowledge to transition from being a classical usability engineer to become a complete user experience designer.
It is no longer enough to design just for efficiency - now user experience experts must also design for engagement.
More information at humanfactors.com.
| March 30, 2009 | to | April 2, 2009 |
Internet User Experience 2009 offers inspired and directional keynote presentations, multi-track interest sessions, and in-depth training on core topics for establishing and dramatically improving your web presence. Come to experience, learn, and grow.
This fifth annual conference brings you top industry speakers, practitioners, and authors to provide you with the most complete package of Internet user experience design training, case studies, and real-world examples ever assembled.
We cover most aspects of web site design and strategy, including user experience design, graphics, branding, marketing message, effective web writing, and enhancements that drive customers to your site.
See iue2009.com for more information.
| January 15, 2009 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Armin Vit will speak about “More than pixels” at the next Columbus Society of Communicating Arts meeting at Knowlton Hall, on the campus of The Ohio State University.
A good designer cultivates the ability to tease out the core of a client’s business, brand or message. “It’s more like being a shrink who has good taste in graphics,” he’s observed.
See cscarts.org for more about Armin and the event.
| January 14, 2009 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
Daniel Alenquer, Lead User Experience Designer, ASUS will talk on January 14, 2009, 6:30 pm, The Ohio State University, Scott Labs. By Columbus Ohio Usability Professionals Association.
| January 26, 2009 | to | January 28, 2009 |
Mplanet 2009: Navigating the new Marketsphere, is the American Marketing Association’s annual conference. Mplanet is a one-of-a-kind forum where B2B and B2C marketing leaders and luminaries will share the latest marketing thinking, ideas, innovations and their visions for tomorrow. Mplanet is a totally unique and inspiring environment—a sort of “un-conference” with engaging program formats, topic specific groups, highly interactive sessions and an invaluable Mplanet support network that will keep the conversation and connections going long after the event itself.
Some of the sessions related to user experience:
See mplanet2009.com for more information.
| January 22, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 am | to | 5:00 pm |
Experience Marketing Unleashed: Creating Brand Engagement through Immersive Experiences. Multiplying media, increased competition, new technology and changing consumer behavior make effective brand engagement more challenging than ever. Brand marketers are responding in part by embracing a more effective, holistic form of event marketing called “Experience Marketing” which looks across the entire marketing mix and customer demographics to produce immersive, highly-relevant brand experiences that generate measurable bottom-line performance.
In this “Experience Marketing Unleashed” Hot Topic Briefing, the AMA brings together some of the leading practitioners and innovators in Experience Marketing to discuss the strategy and tactics behind this burgeoning marketing discipline. Highly interactive, example-driven and results-focused, this one day educational immersion will provide senior and mid-level marketing executives with the ideas, tools and models necessary to improve and reinvent your approach to brand engagement.
See AMA site for more information.
| October 25, 2009 | to | October 27, 2009 |
The International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym) is the premier conference dedicated to wikis and related open collaboration systems and processes.
WikiSym 2009 aims to explore and extend the thriving wiki community, bringing together researchers, practitioners, writers and scholars to gather, discuss and share knowledge and experience on all areas related to wikis and wiki philosophy, ranging from social to technical, and from theoretical to experience studies.
Given the interdisciplinary nature of wiki and related systems, WikiSym invites contributions in a wide range of fields including:
Topics of special interest to the symposium include, but are not limited to:
See wikisym.org for more information.
| October 5, 2009 | to | October 8, 2009 |
UX Challenge, Artic edition. In the exotic setting of the Arctic, we will tackle the UX challenge. By changing the context of our practice, we will change our perspective. Pushing the boundaries of our own experience will inspire us to push the boundaries of the user experience.
See uxchallenge.com for more information.
| June 15, 2009 | to | June 17, 2009 |
UX London is a three-day event for user experience designers (including information architects, visual designers, user experience managers and web producers).
It combines a day of inspirational conference with four half days of practical, in-depth, hands-on seminars, all presented by some of the biggest names in the industry.
See uxlondon.com for more information.
| June 29, 2009 | to | July 1, 2009 |
The ACM Hypertext Conference is the main venue for high quality peer-reviewed research on “linking.” The Web, the Semantic Web, the Web 2.0, and Social Networks are all manifestations of the success of the link.
Research topics will be organized into three tracks:
See ht2009.org for more information.
| July 20, 2009 | to | July 24, 2009 |
COMPSAC is one of the major international forums for academia, industry, and government to discuss research results, advances and future trends in computer and software technologies and applications.
The creation of trustworthy, dependable and distributed computer services satisfying the needs of today’s pervasive and ubiquitous computing environments spans all aspects of software systems engineering. COMPSAC is a unique forum bringing together these facets and their major stakeholders. The technical theme for the 33rd conference is
HARMONIZING HUMANS, COMPUTERS AND SOFTWARE IN SERVICE ENVIRONMENT
Topics include:
Multidisciplinary work, research and development of software prototypes, industry-university collaborations, all based on new emerging and critical technologies will be of particular interest to this conference.
See COMPSAC 2009 site for more information.
| March 29, 2009 | to | April 1, 2009 |
The WritersUA Conference for Software User Assistance is returning to the city of Seattle for the first time since 2003. The opening session of the conference features Scott McCloud, creator of the Google Chrome Comic.
The conference goal is to continue to provide an event with the most comprehensive and timely information specifically designed for user assistance professionals. The event covers all aspects of information and training as a means of support for software users and toward a better user experience.
See the conferences site for more information.
| February 11, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
The first MinneUX Book Club discussion will be Wednesday, Feb. 11 between 6-8pm at Wilde Roast in NE Minneapolis, discussing Bill Buxton’s “Sketching User Experiences.”
See UX Book Club for more information.
| January 8, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm |
The inaugural Chicago UX Book Club meeting will be Thursday, January 8, 2009, 7:00 p.m., Fado, 100 W Grand Avenue.
The book: The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman.
See Gabby Hon’s page for more information.
| February 1, 2009 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 4:00 pm |
The first meeting of the UX Book Club in Philadelphia will be Febraury 1st. Location and book still TBD. Check out the Facebook event for more information.
| February 3, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm |
The first meeting of the UX Book Club Sydney will be held at the offices of News Digital Media at 175 Liverpool Street, Sydney, on 3rd February, 2009.
The Book: Sketching User Experiences by Bill Buxton.
See UX Book Club Sydney for more information.
| December 16, 2008 | ||
| 7:00 pm |
The first edition of the UX Book Club will be December 16th, 7 pm at Dana Street Coffee, 744 W. Dana Street, Mountain View, CA, 94041.
The book will be “Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love”. The book will kick off a conversation about how to create better relationships with product management and the role of user experience in the product lifecycle.
For more information and to RSVP, see Silicon Valley Book Club.
| March 25, 2009 |
Entering its seventh year, The Spring <br /> Conference will once again be happening in Baker Center, on the beautiful campus of Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Whether you are a designer or a developer, or are just curious, the conference will offer presentations that are sure to inspire and educate.
User experience sessions have traditionally been included in the program.
Hosted by SEOCATS, an Adobe user group.
Watch sbconference.com for more information.
