UXnet is connecting interested, not-for-profit, user experience-related organizations. Our aim is to help professional groups work together and create shared benefits while building our shared discipline, user experience. The 2005 Development Consortium was the public kick-off of these activities.
Organization
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Description
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CM Pros
Content Management Professionals |
CM Pros is a membership organization that fosters the sharing of content management information, practices, and strategies. We seek to improve content management practices within all organizations by:
- Collecting, developing, organizing, and delivering peer-vetted knowledge
- Educating ourselves and those we work with on the key issues of content management
- Fostering interaction among content management professionals, enterprise leadership, product vendors, and university educators
- Identifying, refining, publicizing, and advocating respected content management practices
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HFES
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society |
The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) promotes the discovery and exchange of knowledge concerning the characteristics of human beings that are applicable to the design of systems and devices of all kinds.
- The Society furthers serious consideration of knowledge about the assignment of appropriate functions for humans and machines, whether people serve as operators, maintainers, or users in the system.
- It advocates systematic use of such knowledge to achieve compatibility in the design of interactive systems of people, machines, and environments to ensure their effectiveness, safety, and ease of performance.
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IAI
Information Architecture Institute |
The Information Architecture Institute (IAI) is a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to advancing and promoting information architecture through research, education, advocacy and community service. Specific IAI activities include:
- Developing a web site that serves to promote the Institute and information architecture and evolves into a community infrastructure that supports communication and collaboration
- Raising awareness of information architecture and its value among business decision makers and decision influencers including members of the media, by providing IA practitioners with PR materials and tutorials
- Offering seminars, workshops, and networking opportunities at professional conferences
- Soliciting sponsorships and donations and sell merchandise to raise funds to support the institute’s operations and mission
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IxDA
Interaction Design Association |
The Interaction Design Association (IxDA) was incorporated as a non-profit, member-supported organization in September 2005. IxDA is committed to serving the needs of the international interaction design community by:
- disseminating information about interaction design standards, guidelines, patterns, and best practices
- providing tools and other resources for interaction designers
- assisting members of the interaction design community in obtaining employment through a jobs board and consultants directory
- providing a forum for the discussion of interaction design issues
- publishing news and other information about our organization through our Web site, newsletter, email announcements, press releases, and other media
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IIID
International Institute for Information Design |
The International Institute for Information Design was founded to develop research and practice in optimizing information and information systems for knowledge transfer in everyday life, business, education and science. The main activities of IIID are:
- Contributing to a better understanding of cultural and economic issues by means of improved visual communication
- Developing information design as an independent interdisciplinary field of knowledge and professional activities
- Researching, documenting and educating on information design for business communications, product development, orientation in the environment, training and a better understanding of scientific knowledge
- Establishing world wide contacts with information designers, consultancies and research institutes, universities, commercial enterprises and design promotional institutions
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STC
Society for Technical Communication |
STC is an individual membership organization dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of technical communication. Its 18,000 members include technical writers and editors, content developers, documentation specialists, technical illustrators, instructional designers, academics, information architects, usability and human factors professionals, visual designers, Web designers and developers, and translators - anyone whose work makes technical information available to those who need it. Our goals are to:
- Enhance the professionalism of the members and the status of the profession
- Provide information through publications, reports, and conferences
- Report on new communication technologies, methods, and applications
- Provide recognition and awards
- Provide services to members at all levels of the Society
- Promote the education of members and support research activities in the field
- Give service to industry and academe
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SIGCHI (ACM)
Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction (Association for Computing Machinery) |
SIGCHI is the premier international society for professionals, academics and students who are interested in human-technology and human-computer interaction (HCI).
- We provide a forum for the discussion of all aspects of HCI through our conferences, publications, web sites, email discussion groups, and other services
- We advance education in HCI through tutorials, workshops and outreach, and we promote informal access to a wide range of individuals and organizations involved in HCI
- Members can be involved in HCI-related activities with others in their region through local SIGCHI chapters
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SIGHCI (AIS)
Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction (Association for Information Systems) |
The Association for Information Systems Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction (AIS SIGHCI) provides a forum for AIS members to discuss, develop, and promote a range of issues related to the history, reference disciplines, theories, practice, methodologies and techniques, new developments, and applications of the interaction between humans, information, technologies, and tasks, especially in the business, managerial, organizational, and cultural contexts. The SIG’s mission is twofold:
- To facilitate the exchange, development, communication, and dissemination of information among AIS members
- To promote research related to human-computer interaction within business, managerial, and organizational contexts among AIS members and to the larger community of practitioners and scholars
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UPA
Usability Professionals’ Association |
The Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) supports usability specialists, people from all aspects of human-centered design, and the broad family of disciplines that create the user experience in promoting the design and development of usable products. Our goals are to:
- Provide an international network through which usability professionals can share information about the techniques and methodologies in the profession
- Create an inclusive community for those interested in usability, whether it is their primary focus or a related discipline
- Change new product development processes to include a concern for the people who use them by presenting the business case for usability in product development to colleagues, customers, the public and governmental agencies
- Increase the body of knowledge about usability and user-centered design through professional education, meetings and conventions and other professional interchanges
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