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Greetings from London!

Hello,

My name is Deirdre Devers and I currently work in the area of gaming and user experience. However, I’ve also worked on improving the user experience in 2D online spaces.

As you can imagine, in a city as vibrant and cosmopolitan as London, there are plenty of arenas (e.g. eCommerce, multi-user virtual environments) in which user experience is central.

I plan to keep you abreast of UX-related events in London as well as posting resources that may of interest to your practice.

I recognise that there are a variety of people who may be practitioners, academic and students (and sometimes encompass all three roles simultaneously!) and I will work to offer content that is useful to all. Whilst I do have some ideas about some of the topics I’d like to post about, I am always open to suggestions. Please feel free to get in touch.

Before I sign of, I’d like to thank all UX contributors for making UXNet such a great online space.

All the best,

Deirdre

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Welcome to the Washington, DC Area UXnet Locale

Many of you know that our DC Area UX community is incredibly active. In the next few months I’ll be taking time to review our local UX-related organizations in an effort to help those seeking advice, networking opportunities, and work in this field. If you have an organization in mind that would be interested in a small review please send me a note (olga [at] olgahow [dot] com). Until later…yours truly. Olga.

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Welcome to the Honolulu Locale

Aloha!

Unbeknownst to many people, Hawaii actually does have a rich and diverse technology community. Although, it seems that this community does not get together regularly for events. User Experience is not a common topic for local software events when they do happen in Honolulu, so I will be taking it upon myself to be a representative for this important aspect of our industry. There are a handful of online forums for the technology community in Hawaii and as I review them I will post their links. I know there are people in the Hawaii technology community who value User Experience, and it’s time to get us together and start to collaborate!

Please let me know if you are aware of any events or links that are missing from the Honolulu locale.

Mahalo!

Michal Anne Rogondino

Posted in Honolulu, HI, USA
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Welcome to Lisbon, Portugal

The only User Experience community in Portugal right now is with the Portuguese Usability Professionals Association with about 50 registered members and 200 mailing list subscribers. I’m their current President.

We run several events throughout the year, including a big conference around Easter. We also gather informally about every 3 months.

We are not affiliated with UPA but we are starting to build a local chapter with them. We are also looking to gather more people that run some mailing list groups.

If you’re interested in User Experience and you live in Portugal, drop me a line.

Posted in Lisbon, Portugal
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The User Experience scene in Denver/Boulder, Colorado, USA

The User Experience professions in Colorado, USA are growing fast. Most activity is focused on the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains – spanning the 150 miles (240 km) from Colorado Springs to Denver, Boulder, and Fort Collins.

Currently, the UX groups in Colorado include:

• AIGA Colorado - Experience Design
• Denver UX
• Rocky Mountain CHI
• Rocky Mountain HFES
• STC Rocky Mountain Chapter
• UPA Colorado Chapter

UXnet’s Local Ambassadors in Colorado help collect local UX job leads, find speakers, and generally make sure all the groups know about each other.

Please contact us with info about your Colorado UX group, or to learn more about the Colorado UX scene.

Posted in Denver, CO, USA
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Welcome to Cleveland, OH

Northeast Ohio has several organizations concerned with User Experience Design, including:

• NEOUPA (North East Ohio Usability Professionals Association)
• Web Association
• AIGA Cleveland Chapter (American Institute of Graphic Arts)
• Information Society (Kent State University organization)

Posted in Cleveland, OH, USA
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Bloomington is in the Design House

Bloomington, Indiana is a unique mix of small-town community and big-city perks. The city of Bloomington is surprisingly tech-savvy, sporting an extensive local wiki and a growing awareness of its own technical expertise. At the Indiana University School of Informatics, our human-computer interaction program has a decidedly design focus and an active academic community, both online and off. Currently, projects—like the Design Studies Initiative and organizing a local Startup Weekend—are underway to connect our local human resources.

I am pleased to introduce you to several local bloggers of potential interest to the UX community. Current students and faculty in the HCI program at the School of Informatics include:

Marty Siegel, faculty

Erik Stolterman, faculty

Christian Briggs, Ph.D. student

Heekyoung Jung, Ph.D. student

Justin Donaldson, Ph.D. student

Kevin Makice, Ph.D. student

Marty McCrory, Ph.D. student

Richie Hazlewood, Ph.D. student

Will Ryan, Ph.D. student

Aaron Houssian

Amber Kim

Ankit Khare

Balakrishna Chennupati

David Roedl

Jamie McAtee

Jason de Runa

Kenton Hankins

Kshitiz Anand

Mike Madison

Mingxian Chang

Shruti Bhandari

Tyler Pace

Vignesh Ramesh

HCI/d Course Blogs: Orange, Blue, Purple, Red, and Green

Virtual Worlds for Serious Use

HCI Design Evaluation Methods

Interaction Culture

Other local technology blogs include:

First: Principles and Bloomington Geek Dinners (Ben Fulton)

geek-guides (Elijah Wright)

Storygeek (Mark Bell)

UberNoggin and Second Life Education Research (Sarah Robbins)

Posted in Bloomington, IN, USA
Tags: blog roll | Bloomington | design | human-computer interaction | Indiana | Indiana University | LocaleWelcome | School of Informatics
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Houston’s UX community

Houston has a fresh, growing user experience community. If you are interested in joining the Houston user experience network please leave a comment on this post as we will be organizing new events for 2008.

Houston is the largest city in Texas, with a population somewhere in the neighborhood of 2+ million people. Known as a world headquarters for energy (specifically oil and gas), home to the Astros (baseball), Rockets (basketball), Texans (football), a NASA Space Center, and boasting a popular Theatre District, Houston is ranked as one of 11 U.S world class cities by the Globalization and World Cities Study Group & Network.

Posted in Houston, TX, USA
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Welcome to UXnet Tokyo

Tokyo is the center of the new user experience, the place where you meet new digital device eveyday. We have many small indivisual working groups, online communities, and nonprofit organizations trying to redefine our profession.

UXnet Tokyo Local will provide UX related information in Tokyo and other major metropolitan area in Japan in both Japanese and English. Please feel free to contact me, if you need any support.

Welcome message in Japanese:

UXnet Tokyo ページへようこそ！
UXnet (User Experience Network)はIA（情報アーキテクチャ）およびUX（ユーザーエクスペリエンス）関係のプロフェッショナルによる情報交換のためのネットワークです。現在この領域で活躍されている世界各国のプロフェッショナルとのネットワーク作りを各国のローカルアンバサダーがお手伝いします。

IAまたはUX関係のイベント情報をお持ちでUXnetに掲載したい場合は、nobsatoまでご連絡ください。東京近辺に限らず掲載します。

Local Groups and Communities in Japan:

• IAI@mixi - mixi is the largest SNS in Japan.
• IAI-jp
• IAAJ: Information Architecture Association Japan
• HCD-Net (人間中心設計推進機構) - NPO
• W2C (日本ウェブ協会) - NPO
• RIA Consortium (RIAコンソーシアム)

Posted in Tokyo, Japan
Tags: japan | LocaleWelcome | Tokyo, Japan | 日本語
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Welcome to the New York City metro area

It’s a big locale, covering Connecticut, New York and New Jersey and there’s a lot going on here. Industries in the area include financial, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, advertising and publishing.

There are active chapters of UPA (New York, Connecticut and New Jersey), SIGCHI, IxDA, and the headquarters for AIGA, and regular meetings, meet-ups and training on all aspects of user experience.

Posted in New York City, NY, USA
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