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IxDA Phoenix Innaugural Meeting (AZ, USA)

IxDA Phoenix, A Local Group for the Interaction Design Community of Phoenix, announces theirInnauguaral Meeting.

Date: Tuesday, March 10 2009
Time: 6pm - 9pm
Location: Gangplank HQ, Chandler, AZ
Purpose: Working Session, Ideation, Discuss and find solutions for challenges within Interaction Design.

Anyone with an interest in Interaction Design / Usability is welcome, from novice to the experienced professional. Attendees are encouraged to bring topics of interest to discuss such as challenges they are facing, an interesting solution they have found, or a new trend they want to explore.

For more info: http://ixdaphoenix.ning.com/

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LA UPA Chapter March Meetup (Los Angeles, CA, USA)

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.

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LA UPA Chapter Planning (Los Angeles, CA, USA)

Members of the Los Angeles UX community will be meeting on Februrary 16 at 7:00 pm (location TBD) to begin planning a local chapter of the Usability Professionals Association. Stephen Ruiz, Senior Experience Architect at Rapp Collins Worldwide, is leading the effort. Like most LA UX events, this event is full, but those interested in staying in the loop on upcoming meetings should join the LA UPA MeetUp Group. You may also contact stephen_ruiz72 at yahoo dot com if you want to help out with forming the chapter. This will be a great opportunity for the LA UX community to focus on usability-related topics with endorsement from the UPA.

About the UPA: Founded in 1991, the original 50-member team has grown to serve a community of nearly 2,400 members worldwide by promoting usability concepts and techniques through its publications, conferences, and local chapters.

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UX Book Club Toronto + UX Irregulars January 2009

Join us for conversation and libation with the Toronto area’s (more or less) monthly UX Irregulars get-together.

In order to get the Toronto UX Book Club rolling, we’re inviting everyone who might be interested to:
- share books you might be interested in
- brainstorm how the book club could work

We invite you to add your book suggestions and thoughts on this page: http://uxbookclub.org/doku.php?id=toronto

For more on the UX book club, see:
http://uxbookclub.org/doku.php and http://uxbookclub.org/doku.php?id=other_ideas_for_running_your_ux_book_club.

Please RSVP so we can get an idea of how many will be coming.
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1475113/

C’est What
67 Front St. E.
Toronto, Ontario

Google Maps
http://rurl.org/hc7
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=67+Front+St.+E.,+Toronto,+Ontario

UX Irregulars are a rag-tag, fugitive fleet of User eXperience designers, researchers and strategists who design mostly Web interactions, but also software, and sometimes crazy things like ski hills
http://groups.google.com/group/UXIrregulars

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UX Brighton Planing Meet

If you live in Brighton (UK), you might be interested in attending the 1st meeting of the UX Brighton group tomorrow (15th April).

The idea of this initial meeting is to

• gauge interest in the group
• encourage community participation
• find out what people might want from the group
• network with like-minded people
• maybe organise the 2nd meeting.

There are (at time of writing), 3 places still available.

Keep up with UX Brighton

• UX Brighton Google group
• @uxbri on Twitter

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UX local leader meeting (Ann Arbor, MI, USA)

Leaders from Southeast Michigan / Northwest Ohio professional chapters interested in user experience will be meeting to network, share best practices and discuss cooperation and collaboration opportunities. Held in conjunction with the Internet user experience conference, the meeting will set the stage for more regional UXnet activities in the future.

Some of the local groups invited to participate include:

• Michigan UPA
• MOCHI
• Refresh Detroit
• MI-ASIS&T
• AIGA Detroit and AIGA Toledo
• STC/SM
• SE Michigan IIBA

Representatives from area universities and colleges are also being invited. In fact, anyone interested in participating in the meeting and furthering UXnet’s mission is welcome to join us. Contact us if you are interested.

Organized by UXnet local ambassadors Keith Instone (Toledo), Dan Cooney (Ann Arbor) and Anthony Viviano (Detroit).

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NEOUPA planning (Orange Village, OH, USA)

Volunteer to serve on the board or on one of the planning committees of NEOUPA, the Northeast Ohio chapter of the  Usability Professionals’ Association. The Vice President and Secretary positions on the board are currently open and we also need people to serve on the Events, Membership, and Website planning committees. If you are interested in any of these roles, please come to Red Robin (just off 271 between Harvard and Chagrin) on Monday, March 10 at 6:30pm to learn more about how you can help.

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