UXnet provided coordination and leadership on a local level, thanks to the hard work of our Local Ambassadors: a passionate group dedicated to facilitating collaboration between people, organizations, and resources. Below are the most recent postings from our Local Ambassadors. If your locale is not listed (on the right), then check out the local chapter directories of various UX-related professional organizations to find UX professionals near you.
Unfortunately, this organization, its site, and any other elements are passing into the digital beyond. Individuals may continue on, maybe even sustaining the name, URLs or whatever. I had a short but fruitful stint here as ambassador for Baltimore. I’ll now be investing my free time and efforts into helping make Baltimore Parlay a continuing success. Good luck to everyone, and all you locals, come on over to Parlay!
With respect to everyone involved with UXNet, and apologies to Monty Python:
UXNet is a dead parrot.
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I’m looking at one right now.
The plumage don’t enter into it.
It’s stone dead.
I’m coordinating a post-graduate in User-Centered Design into Universidade Positivo in Curitiba - Brazil.
The course brings the experience of designers and engineers of CESAR, professionals/researchers from Curitiba and brings a professional discuss for the area of interaction design and user experience.The path chosen is the user-centered design, the same used by renowned companies such as IDEO, CESAR, Apple, Intel, IBM, Nokia, Adaptive Path and any others.
Classes will to start in March 2010 and will be fortnightly (Friday and Saturday).The course is intended for the training of professionals involved in the process of developing new services and technology products. The gap is to apply theory and practice in a balanced and focused on research, development, prototyping and testing with users.
Presentation of post-graduate: http://www.slideshare.net/efileno/psgraduao-design-centrado-no-usurio
More information: http://www.posup.com.br/curso.asp?id=258
Cheers!
Érico Fernandes Fileno, M.Sc.
Interaction Designer
http://ericofileno.wordpress.com
http://www.slideshare.net/efileno
@efileno
Hi everyone,
This is my first post, recently I was accepted as a UxNet Local Ambassador for Monterrey, Mexico. The main goal is to gather the Ux Community from the region since we are a group of only a few professionals. I hope this space could help us organize and share experiences and knowledge.
A little about me, I ‘been working in the industry for some years, today I´m an Interaction Designer, I work in RIA design, but I have a lot of experience also in web design, graphic design, IT Architecture, Information Architecture, UxD, prototyping, etc.
Please let me know any event or gathering, also what do you want to start doing in our community (ie. Labs, Courses, etc.)
Arturo
Sorry, forgot to announce the January meeting we held last night where we reviewed Robert Hoekman, Jr’s Designing the Obvious and Todd Zaki Warfel’s new book Prototyping.
The next bookclub meeting is on 11 February 2010 where we’ll be discussing Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics and some new New Riders books.
UX London is a unique three-day event combining inspirational talks with in-depth workshops presented by some of the industry’s biggest names.
Whether you are beginning your career, or a seasoned professional, UX London is your chance to add core skills, absorb strategic thinking, and learn advanced techniques from pioneers in the field.
See 2010.uxlondon.com for more information.
Il est possible de visualiser et télécharger les présentations et vidéos des conférenciers de la Journée mondiale de l’utilisabilité (ou World Usability Day), qui s’est tenue à Montréal et Québec en simultanée.
Des sujets variés — incluant les «design patterns», l’ergonomie, le marketing, l’ingénierie, l’adaptabilité des sites internationaux en contextes locaux — célèbrent l’apport de l’utilisabilité et de l’expérience utilisateur dans le développement de produits faciles à apprendre et à utiliser, efficients et efficaces.
Au programme également, une recherche exploratoire réalisée en partenariat par le HEC Montréal, l’Université de Montréal et Bell Canada. Celle-ci combine l’oculométrie aux mesures psychologiques et émotionnelles, afin d’évaluer la qualité d’un site Web. Comme dirait Sandrine, «toute une triangulation méthodologique (ou casse-tête de données selon certains…;-))». Bien sûr, l’oculométrie (ou la poursuite oculaire) a une application plutôt restreinte en réalité. En effet, avec les budgets restreints de la plupart des sites au Québec, on a en général bien d’autres facteurs à évaluer avant celui-là, qui auront plus d’impact sur le produit final. Mais c’est intéressant d’avoir l’occasion de se voir relater un cas de recherche appliquée, avec un protocole d’expérimentation formel, qui inclut cette dimension supplémentaire.
Cette belle soirée sur l’utilisabilité a permis à près de 90 membres de la communauté – spécialistes ou non – d’apprendre et d’échanger sur les bonnes pratiques du métier, dans un optique de développement durable.
This coming Monday, 23 November, there will be a coffee meetup in Civic, Canberra for local freelancers and entrepreneurs to meet and connect with other like-minded professionals. If you’re a user experience design freelancer then come along and share your experiences and learn from others from different industries.
RSVP now for Canberra Freelancers and Entrepreneurs Coffee.
The next UX bookclub meeting in Canberra is tomorrow night at 6:30pm.
The venue is the bar attached to Hotel Realm in Barton; just look for the group of people with a copy of the same book in front of them. Go around the left side of the hotel from outside the main entrance.
The book being reviewed tomorrow is Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely but if you haven’t read it don’t worry. Not everyone has the opportunity to read every book the club reviews so just turn up and join in the discussion which inevitable wanders off into other topics.
Also, Donna Spencer will be giving a personal review of Scott Berkun’s new book Making Things Happen.
If you want to come please let Keith Lang know and subscribe to the uxbookclubcanberra list for future events.
Unfortunately I will be missing out again on bookclub as I’ll be in Sydney for Global Entrepreneurs Week.
Utilisabilité et développement durable. Telle sera la thématique de la 5e Journée mondiale de l’utilisabilité (World Usability Day) qui se tiendra ce jeudi 12 novembre. Utilisabilité Québec se joint une fois de plus aux initiatives locales organisées un peu partout dans le monde, à la suite de l’association «mère» américaine, la Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA).
À Montréal et Québec, nous nous intéresserons tout particulièrement au thème suivant : Utilisabilité et développement durable : une évidence? À travers une série de conférences sur divers sujets — allant des «design patterns», aux mesures psychologiques et émotionnelles, en passant par l’adaptabilité des sites internationaux en contextes locaux — nous célébrerons l’apport de l’utilisabilité et de l’expérience utilisateur dans le développement de produits faciles à apprendre et à utiliser, efficients et efficaces. Et ce, partout dans le monde.
Pour ma part, l’angle qui m’interpelle particulièrement en lien avec cette thématique générale est le suivant : À l’ère du «budget-temps limité», comment développer des sites Web viables? J’en parlerai davantage dans un prochain blogue et j’introduirai d’ailleurs succintement la soirée de la JMU avec cet optique. Au plaisir de vous rencontrer jeudi soir! Ça débute à 18h au CRIM de Montréal et au Cégep de Ste-Foy pour Québec (diffusion simultanée entre les 2 villes). Également, un clin d’oeil sera fait à une de nos associations cousines, la FLUPA (section France-Luxembourg d’UPA), sous forme d’entrevues pré-enregistrées (décalage horaire obligeant). Une pause réseautage est prévue accompagnée d’un cocktail. Tous les détails sur le site d’Utilisabilité Québec.
UXPanama will be holding its monthly meeting on Thursday, November 21 to celebrate World Usability Day. There will be two presentations: Alberto Attia will talk about applications of UX in copaair.com, and I will be talking about context.
When: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 6:00pm
Where: Soft Net, San Francisco, between Vía Porras and Calle Andrés Mojica (in front of Heladería Gelatieri)
Cost: Free, and there will be refreshments
Hope to see you there!
As in previous years, the 2009 edition of the World Usability Day will have a local event in Buenos Aires. This time, we hope to receive more than 200 professionals at the Universidad Católica Argentina’s Santa Cecilia auditorium (Av. Alicia Moreu de Justo 1500) on November 18th. The conference is organised by UPA Argentina, the local chapter of the Usability Professional’s Association.
During the morning we’ll have a general track inspired by this year’s theme: “Designing for a Sustainable World”. Lucia Filgueiras, UPA Brazil’s President and UPA Argentina’s sponsor, will be the keynote speaker.
In the afternoon, several workshops will cover different topics and techniques related to usability and user experience design.
You can read more and register to the event at http://www.diadelausabilidad.org.ar/
Hello everyone again,
Unfortunately, I wasn’t around so much and besides that, I missed you a lot. But I’ve come back with good news.
Finally, After a long endeavor, the 1st User Experience seminar was held in Tehran (and of course Iran) 2 weeks ago on Tuesday and it was great. This seminar was held by Informatic Society of Iran (ISI) @ Shardari’s Conference Hall in Tehran. I was the speaker and I experienced a great moments.
At this seminar, I introduced the field of User Experience design to people and let them know about the other things involve in designing for a good UX including usability goals, UX goals, design principles, etc. I also presented some case studies, which are successful because of their good UX designs. I also introduced UX network as a community for all user experience designers around the world. I am happy that the promotion of UX design and Uxnet has just started in my locale.
Another good news is that most probably I will have another seminar in Nov at the place and once again it’s held by ISI. I will post more details later. But, I bet that it will be great and fun, too. So don’t miss this.
I am working on making the PowerPoint of the Seminar ready and put it on SlideShare. Once I am done, I will post the link for the PowerPoint and the seminar’s pictures in another post.
Check my post for more information later.
Till next time, take care.
Best regards
Alireza Nikookar
O Dia Mundial da Usabilidade de Curitiba (WUD - World Usability Day), evento promovido anualmente pela UPA - Usability Professionals´ Association, tem como objetivo discutir técnicas e metodologias de usabilidade e design de interação com pesquisadores, profissionais, estudantes e a comunidade em geral. O evento de Curitiba participará de uma rede com os outros locais do WUD no Brasil procurando desenvolver uma sinergia nos debates.
O WUD Curitiba 2009 conta com o apoio do Instituto Faber-Ludens, Universidade Positivo, IxDA Curitiba e UxNET Curitiba.
19 horas - Abertura do evento
19h15 - Palestra com Priscilla Ramalho Lepre, mestre em Design (UFPR)
Tema: Design sustentável, ergonomia e usabilidade: convergências
20h15 - Palestra com Claudio Pereira, mestre em Design (UFPR)
Tema: Afetividade e usabilidade no Design
21h15 - Apresentação de trabalhos MediaLab - Universidade Positivo
Professores Carolina Calomeno, Renato Bertão e Péricles Gomes
22h00 - Encerramento
Universidade Positivo
Rua Professor Pedro Viriato Parigot de Souza, 5300
Auditório 2 - Bloco Vermelho
Curitiba - PR
Brazil
One of the things I’d like to do as a UXnet ambassador in Canberra is to give local user experience designers, information architects, interaction designers, researchers and other UX professionals an opportunity to speak on topics their passionate about and tell others about what they do. I plan to do this through a series of audio podcasts which I would conduct with those who nominate themselves or accept invitations to participate in such a podcast.
Part of it is to raise the profile of our local talent and UX community so people know what Canberra has to offer in skills and expertise in the user experience field and so others can more readily connect with local professionals if they know a bit more about who they are.
Do you think this is a good idea? Are you a UX professional in Canberra that would be interested in nominating yourself or a colleague to participate in an inteview?
I’ll be tweeting from @UXnetCanberra and providing mostly locally-relevant information about UX/web events, Canberra UX jobs, interesting articles and linking to articles and blog posts written by local user experience professionals.
All links posted at @UXnetCanberra will be shared and archived as UXnetCanberra on Delicious.
UX Panama will be hosting its monthly meeting on Wednesday, October 21. Carlos Gordón will be talking about maps for data visualization, and Sandra Guerra will be discussing intellectual property rights. The Mac Store will be sponsoring a happy hour during the event.
When: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 6:00pm
Where: Mac Store San Francisco (Panama City)
Cost: Free, the Mac Store will provide refreshments
For more information, visit uxpanama.net (In Spanish)
Hope to see you there!
My proposal to become UXnet local ambassador for Canberra, Australia was accepted last week so in my first post as ambassador for my city I would like to introduce myself and my local UX community.
I have been working in the web industry for ten years and currently label myself a web user interaction designer - what I consider to be a half-way hybrid between a web user experience strategist and a front-end developer/coder.”Interaction” focusses on the detail of the user interface aspect of experience design, specifically websites and web applications. I recently blogged more about this in “What is a user experience designer?“. You can also read more about me in my professional profile/bio or on LinkedIn.
I’m fairly active in the Australian web industry and have a sizeable professional network of colleagues who I’ve met and connected with at conferences such as Web Directions, Edge of the Web and UX Australia plus BarCampCanberra (which I’m an organiser of), BarCampSydney, Public Sphere, Web Standards Group and many other local and interstate professional & social events.
We were fortunate to have the inaugural UX Australia conference here in Canberra which was nice as most of the good conferences are held in Sydney and Melbourne, with Edge of the Web being held in Perth, although UX Australia will be in Melbourne for 2010.
One of the interesting things about Canberra is that it’s a medium-size city with a population of 320,000 but it’s also the only city in the Australian Capital Territory. So not only does Canberra have its own local government it also accommodates most of the infrastructure and administrative capacity of Federal Government and the Australian Parliament including the Australian Public Service.
So if you live in Canberra as an IT professional or indeed in any number of professions then you’re either working directly for government or working for an agency that’s working for government; my career is a good example of that. 90% of my work over the past decade has been for government.
Another good thing about Canberra is that due to the size of the city and the interconnectedness of such a large proportion of the workforce directly or indirectly engaged with government the web and design community here is quite open and not competitive. I don’t claim to know every user experience design professional in Canberra; there are people who don’t work in my field, who choose not to engage with their local community or just move in different or smaller circles. But of the people I do know I tend to connect with and converse with on a regular basis - plus we all seem to go to the same conferences and events.
I coordinate the local Canberra Twitter Usergroup meetings or rather I used to until I set up a mailing list and convinced others to be proactive and organise events. It’s not really about Twitter any more, it’s just a label for any sort of social event for my community … like today’s picnic down at the Cotter. So that’s a good place to catch up with other web professionals although we’ve had some success in enlarging the scope of it to include non-web people and even non-techs.
There’s other events like Open Coffee and Social Media Club … but the other regular event in Canberra of significance to my community is the UX bookclub, where we meet every month to discuss a book about user experience and design. The events themselves are a great opportunity to discuss some very interesting design, psychology and human-computer interaction topics in detail but I’ve found UXbookclub has been a great excuse to add to my bookshelf.
I try and add all local web events to the Oz IT Calendar hosted by Pollenizer, but if you want to know what’s happening in town then please feel free to contact me: nboehm@purecaffeine.com or follow me on Twitter: @NathanaelB.
We have some amazingly talented people in Canberra who are active in the web and design community, who regularly present at conferences both local and internationally and have been published online and in print. So if you’re a UX professional and live in Canberra, thinking of moving here or visiting and aren’t already connected with our fantastic professional community then come along to one of our events or at least connect with some of our members online:
PS: This list may be amended in future to include people I inadvertently ommitted.
The Board of Directors of the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) in its October 1 meeting accepted UPA Argentina as its 49th chapter. Argentina had been working towards this end for several months.
The Board of Directors of UPA Argentina is made up as follows:
Eduardo Mercovich, President
Gonzalo J. Auza, Vicepresident
Mariela Preisman, Secretary
Ulises Chesini, Treasurer
Enrique Stanziola, Director of Educacion
Mariano Andrés García, Director of Public Relations
Luis Parker, Andrés Rodríguez, Marcos F. Romero and Griselda Vallejo are also part of the founding group of members.
The same meeting that accepted the UPA Argentine chapter did likewise with the Sao Paulo (Brazil) UPA chapter. Our thanks to Lucía Filgueiras, president of UPA Brazil and UPA Regional Coordinator for Latinamerica, whose help and support were invaluable all along the process. Thanks again, Lucía!
All those who want to join our work in UPA Argentina continue to be permanently and warmly invited and welcome.
For more information, see: www.upa.org.ar
Emotional design has become a buzzword in UI but there’s not a lot of help or direction on how to do it. The October 13 session of SandCHI will include a short presentation on some proven techniques to elicit emotional feedback and some examples of how this information can be incorporated into UI changes for websites, devices, and services.
The second half of the session is envisioned as a free-flowing discussion among attendees of challenges they face in this area and some of the solutions and results they have achieved.
About the presenter:
Joely Gardner, PhD is a licensed psychologist who specializes in usability testing and strategic voice of the customer research.
Please join us for dinner and networking at 8:00 at Cozymel’s.
For more info, check out Sharon Carmichael
Host:
Sharon Carmichael
Location:
Websense
Websense - Atrium, 10240 Sorrento Valley Rd
San Diego, CA 92121 US
When:
Tuesday, October 13, 6:00PM
Phone:
858-945-3064
UX Panama will be hosting its monthly meeting on Wednesday, September 23, 2009. Tito Herrera will be presenting on “The web as a photographer’s tool”, followed by Raúl Altamar’s “Copywriting for the web”. Our hosts (the Mac Store) will also be presenting the new features in Snow Leopard.
When: Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Where: Mac Store, San Francisco (Panama City)
Cost: Free.
More information: uxpanama.net. (In Spanish)
Hope to see you there!
UX Panama will be hosting its monthly meeting on Thursday, August 27, 2009. Frank Kardonski, Subdirector of Electronic Commerce at Copa Airlines, will be giving a presentation titled “Building the Best Online Store”.
When: Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 6:30pm
Where: Copa Airlines auditorium — 1st floor, East Tower of the Costa del Este Business Park
Cost: Free. Copa Airlines will be sponsoring a coffee break
More information: uxpanama.net. (In Spanish)
Hope to see you there!