The UXnet calendar compiles the list of upcoming local events from the locales into a single listing. Major user experience-related conferences and training are also included. (See event types for the full list.) 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.
| November 2, 2009 | to | November 5, 2009 |
UX Intensive is Adaptive Path’s four-day series for experienced professionals wanting to take their practice to the next level. They examine the key elements that contribute to a successful interactive experience:
Each day is led by Adaptive Path’s team of experts.
See adaptivepath.com for more information.
| July 15, 2009 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
Limited or no budget to attend an industry conference this year? Learn key takeaways first hand from recent event attendees from the UPA conference, South by Soutwest, IA Summit, Internet User Experience, and more. Hope to see you there!
Please register, so we know how much pizza to buy!
Meeting Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Meeting cost
Directions
Progressive Insurance
6300 Wilson Mills Road
Mayfield Village, Ohio 44143The Progressive Campus is located off the Wilson Mills Road exit on I-271. Check in at the Visitor’s Center in the West Building at the 6300 Wilson Mills Rd. Campus.
The meeting will be in the Campus 1 West Lower Wintergarden room.
| July 8, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
The Scrum Club is putting on the following event. What is scrum?
Scrum provides us with a great framework for building our Scrum team, implementing the core agile practices and getting the inspect and adapt process started. But Scrum doesn’t provide much for the specific disciplines like programming, testing and User Experience. That’s where our coaches Patrick Neeman and Michael Vincent come in.
Join us as we explore how User Experience Design integrates with the Scrum process. We’ll see first hand how each type of activity fits into the Scrum cycles, and how our User Experience researchers, designers and artists integrate into a Scrum team.
We’ll lay a little foundation with a clear explanation of the core Scrum strategies and how typical User Experience activities map to the Scrum framework. Then we’ll get hands-on and gain experience by running a few live agile cycles to design the interface for an on-line version of Corporate Espionage!
By the end of the evening, you’ll have gained valuable insights into how to integrate User Experience activities into the Scrum process that you can take back and apply to your projects immediately.
Date and Time:
July 8, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Schedule:
5:45: Door Open. Check-in and informal networking. Dinner and refreshments provided. A vegetarian option is served.
6:45 - 7:00 Welcome and Announcements, Club Business, Introductions
7:00 - 8:30 Speaker Presentation and Q&A
8:30 - 8:45 Closing Comments
Location:
Blankspaces
5405 Wilshire, Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA
Free street parking is available about a block away.
Cost:
Tickets are $15 per person.
All funds raised from tickets go to support hands-on opportunities for members to try Scrum on practice projects for non-profits in the community and build leadership skills. We have a limited number of “scholarship tickets” available to university students and volunteers. Please contact amanda@scrumclub.org to get a student registration code or offer to volunteer at the event. We reimburse parking for our volunteers.
| March 24, 2010 | to | March 27, 2010 |
Globalization is changing the context in which we work, the people we work with and the way in which applied researchers and practitioners address real world problems. The 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Mérida, México will bring attention to the growing challenges facing applied practitioners in the 21st century, especially the effects of globalization on the peoples we work with resulting in higher levels of exclusion of vulnerable populations. How do these factors impact applied practice and social science research? Participants are encouraged to submit presentations, roundtables and workshops around this theme.
See sfaa.net for more information.
| October 7, 2009 | to | October 8, 2009 |
The BIF-5 Collaborative Innovation Summit will bring together today’s most compelling innovators, business model renegades and true transformers to discuss innovation success through personal storytelling. Over two days you will hear twenty five stories about creating change and directly connect with pioneers who created environments and opportunities where transformative innovation emerged.
Some of the speakers related to user experience:
See businessinnovationfactory.com for more information.
| July 1, 2009 | to | July 2, 2009 |
| September 29, 2009 | to | September 30, 2009 |
| November 18, 2009 | to | November 19, 2009 |
User centred design techniques help you understand your users better and design effective, efficient and satisfying products and systems. The benefits include:
- increased sales
- improved customer satisfaction
- better productivity
- increased sales conversion rates
- projects completed to time and budget
- no expensive last minute revisions.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
If you are involved in specifying how a system or product will look and function this course will make it easier for you to do your job effectively. Project managers, engineers, designers, developers and analysts from IT, commercial or marketing functions can all benefit from learning about the user centred design process.
WHAT WILL I LEARN?
This comprehensive course provides theory, case studies and examples as well as hands-on activities for you to practice your new skills. Topics include:
- Applying the User Centred Design approach to your business
- Business benefits of a User Centred Design approach
- Guidelines and Standards
- Knowing your target users and capturing their requirements
- Translating requirements to conceptual design and release criteria
- Prototyping techniques
- Measuring and testing usability
ACCREDITATION
This course is accredited by the Ergonomics Society at Level 2, ideal for continuous professional development.
WHAT DID PREVIOUS PARTICIPANTS THINK?
“Leslie was extremely flexible (i.e. If more time was needed, more time was taken). Her presentation (slides and orally) was engaging and ensured that interest was kept. The pace of the course was excellent. Can I come again?”
“Leslie was friendly, knowledgeable and provided clear instructions. I am starting at the front end of a new project next week and will find this an excellent grounding to get the project going.”
“Enthusiastic and informative. A thorough approach to the requirements of the team in training.”
HOW TO BOOK
The course costs £675+VAT per person including lunch and a comprehensive course manual.
Please contact Leslie Fountain on 020 7240 3388 or email leslie@system-concepts.com to reserve your place.
Full details of all our usability training courses are on our website at www.system-concepts.com
| November 12, 2009 | to | November 14, 2009 |
Save the date. The next annual Canadian User Experience workshop will be held November 12-14, in Banff, Alberta, Canada. Canux brings world-class instructors together with practitioners for hands-on learning. It’s a small gathering, limited to 80 participants, with a focus on practical skills for user experience professionals: designers, information architects, interaction designers, front-end architects, usabilitistas, and anyone else who’s passionate about making things work well for people.
More information will be posted at nform.ca.
| June 18, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
Arizona UPA Meeting - Thursday, June 18, 2009
Please join us for the Arizona Usability Professionals Association (AZUPA) Chapter meeting on Thursday, June 18. AZUPA President Miguel Almarez will present a summary of this year’s International UPA conference. Miguel’s presentation will include industry updates, best-practices, and other insights from his experience this week in Portland, OR ( http://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2009/ ). The conference theme this year is Bringing Usability to Life: Making everyday things better. Other chapter meeting attendees will also be welcome to informally share their experiences from the UPA conference. In addition, you’ll learn about the UPA and meet local colleagues who share a passion for all things related to creating compelling user experiences.
Speaker Bio
Miguel Almarez is currently the User Experience Project Manager for Choice Hotels International and President of the Arizona UPA. He holds a B.S. from Arizona State University and a MBA from Western International University.
Meeting Location
The Art Institute of Phoenix2233 West Dunlap AvenuePhoenix, Arizona
Note: The meeting will be in room 456
Map: www.artinstitutes.edu/phoenix/AboutUs/Map_Directions.aspx
Agenda
6:00 pm Arrival, networking and light snacks
6:30 pm Brief business meeting
7:00 pm Presentation - Invited Speaker
8:00 pm Adjourn
This is a free event. You do not need to be a member to attend. Feel free to come and check us out!!!
| July 16, 2009 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Location: User Insight
Directions: Map
Cost: FREE for Members
Join us for a fun evening of food, drinks, and networking with Atlanta’s best and brightest in user experience, product management, and interaction design.
Good membership standing with local chapters of CHI*Atlanta, PDMA, or IxDA is required.
CALL FOR CONVERSATION STARTERS!
To spark conversation during the social, we’re going to display slides showcasing each organization as well as good and bad examples of experience design.
We need your help! Send us a PowerPoint slide with your favorite example of good or bad design. Include “Submitted by [first name last name]” and a brief statement about why it’s your favorite.
| September 23, 2009 | to | September 26, 2009 |
The IDSA International conference is about Infusion: the act of infusing, pouring in and instilling, as in infusing good principles into the mind
Our global economy is going through dramatic change. Design can be proactive and guide change. We can be a significant influence in creating new value. It has been said that the future is not something that happens…it is something that you make happen. Business is not asking for our help to drive new value, they are demanding it. In the 30s, design helped the economy out of the depression. We are finding ourselves at a moment of opportunity once again. Designers have the tools to create new value for reviving economies.
Project Infusion is a new format for IDSA’s International Conference, which will be held at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel September 23-26. Both domestic and international attendees across diverse disciplines beyond the confines of the IDSA membership are invited to exchange ideas, opinions and insights. This is a project that we will contribute to mutually. We will enjoy its fruits together.
Fresh infusion of inspiration, knowledge and wisdom will fuel our creativity. This will be the process of steeping and soaking substance in order to extract new viewpoints. Project Infusion is an event that you cannot miss. It will be an exchange of ideas that you will want to bring your boss to, or send your employees to. You will learn how to increase your bottom line and that of your business. Participants will be positioned as change agents and leaders of new thinking that can move entire industries forward.
See idsa.org for more information.
| June 10, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 7:45 pm |
Billions of people participate in online social activities. Some users participate as readers of discussion boards, searchers of blog posts, or viewers of photos. A fraction of users become contributors of user-generated content by writing consumer product reviews, uploading travel photos, or expressing political opinions. Some users move beyond their individual efforts to become collaborators, forming tightly connected groups with lively discussions whose outcome might be a Wikipedia article or a carefully edited YouTube video. A small fraction of users become leaders who participate in governance by setting and upholding policies, repairing vandalized materials, or mentoring novices.
It’s FREE!
See IxDA DC site for more information.
| June 17, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm |
http://www.webanalyticsdemystified.com/wednesday/index.asp?event_id=2801
| September 4, 2009 |
dConstruct is a conference held in Brighton for people working in the web. This year’s conference is on the 4th September (with two days of seminars/training before), and brings together leading thinkers from the fields of ubiquitous computing, interface design, gaming and mobile to explore the challenges of designing for tomorrow. Speakers include Adam Greenfield, Brian Fling, Robin Hunicke and August de los Reyes.
See dconstruct.org for more information.
| May 24, 2010 | to | May 28, 2010 |
For the first time in its history, the Usability Professionals’ Association International Conference will travel to the heart of Europe. Our key theme will focus on how UX professionals can create great user experiences across different cultures, meeting the challenges of delivering to diverse audiences.
One of the great strengths of the UPA conference is that it brings together a network of practitioners from around the world. This international conference will provide more networking and social interaction than ever before, putting you in touch with inspiring people and new ideas.
See usabilityprofessionals.org for more information.
| May 20, 2012 | to | May 23, 2012 |
The Tech Comm Summit is the Society for Technical Communication’s annual conference. The conference traditionally has many sessions related to user experience.
Expect more details at conference.stc.org when this event gets closer.
| June 9, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm |
Please join us for our next SandCHI UX/usability professional group meeting on:
June 9th - 6pm. Topic: Measuring ROI for UX
Doors open 5:45pm. Please join us for dinner after the meeting for networking and drinks.
Websense - Atrium
10240 Sorrento Valley Rd
San Diego, CA 92121 US
Parking:
You can park in visitor parking (marked Websense) directly in front of the main building (on the left as you enter), or in the parking lot across the bridge. Do not park in front of Samsung next door please.
How to find us:
Walk up the main building. Instead of walking in the front door, go around to the right (past the door we used last meeting) and enter through the patio between Websense and Samsung. Next to the coffee kiosk is a back door into the Atrium which should have a SandCHI sign on it.
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We have a great session lined up for you this time:
Measuring ROI for UX
Moderator:
Jeff Axup
Panel members:
Sean Van Tyne - Director UX, FICO
Deborah Gill-Hesselgrave - Lead Scientist/Human Factors Engineer at SPAWA Systems Center
Jeof Bean - Principal, Del Mar Research & Consulting, LLC.
Measuring return on investment (ROI) is a critical part of justifying a UX program within a company, or justifying the cost of UX consulting to clients. Regardless of whether you are on the academic or practitioner side of UX, it is important to know how to measure the impact of UX and influence decision-makers with numbers. Please join us for our June 9 meeting and listen to a panel of distinguished UX and marketing professionals discuss what ROI is, how to measure it, and how doing so can benefit your future UX activities.
See www.sandchi.org for more information.
| September 15, 2009 | to | September 18, 2009 |
UX Week 2009 looks laterally at the disciplines that have influenced us. With a mix of inspiring talks from recognized thought leaders and hands-on workshops delivering takeaway skills, this event delivers for user experience professionals at all levels — directors, managers, and practitioners.
See uxweek.com for more information.
| June 16, 2009 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
Location: User Insight
This group focuses upon the tools, techniques and initiatives that promote accessibility to people of all ability levels. From design implications and testing methodologies all the way to standards creation and international directives, this group covers the topics which will help you encourage accessible practices within your own workplace.
This group also is collaborating with the Georgia Alliance for Accessible Technologies (GAAT) and the Georgia Initiative for Inclusive Communications and Technologies in efforts such as inclusive tourism. (See a recent article about the efforts in Global Atlanta.)
At this meeting, we will cover how to discuss and explain accessibility requirements within different organizations, whether internally within one’s own company or externally with clients.
| June 18, 2009 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
A discussion and working session with ROGER MADER and JAKE SAMUELSON
Please join IxDA NYC for a discussion and working session to apply a
tiered strategy to your interaction design challenges in a variety of
applications. Noble Desktop will be raffling off a free, 3-day computer
graphics training class!
For more information and RSVP go to http://tinyurl.com/nyc-ixda-june
| June 11, 2009 | to | June 14, 2009 |
The QUIS symposium brings together the best interdisciplinary academic research and management practice in a forum to advance the study of service management, service leadership, customer management, technology in services and delivery of service quality.
User experience related sessions:
See quis11.kampagne24.de for more information.
