UX Speakeasy's Jan Meetup - Happy New UX Year

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UX Speakeasy’s Happy New UX Year

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UX Conferences and continuing education opportunities mentioned at the January 2014 UX Speakeasy Meetup

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2014 Conferences

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Local

World IA Day (Los Angeles)– February 15– LA (Location TBA)– UX Speakeasy Magic Bus– tinyurl.com/WIADLA2014

AIGA Y Conference– Curiosity is the hunger to explore– March 14-15– USD– $400+– y-conference.com/y19

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Local

ValioCon– A Conference for Designers & Makers– June 5-8– $699– Valiocon.com

UX Speakeasy Conference – Fall– Topics TBA based on your input

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Local

• IA Summit

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General

Convey UX – “The Conference for What’s Next in UX”– February 5-7– Seattle– $1,195– www.conveyux.com

SXSW Interactive – AKA The Shitshow– March 8-12– Austin– $895– sxsw.com/interactive

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General

Giant Conference (UX Woodstock)– A Conference For People Who Create Rad Experiences– June 11-14– Charleston– $699+– giantconf.com

User Interface 19– October 27-29– Boston– $ TBA– www.uie.com/events/

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Mobile

UX Mobile Immersion (UIE)– Design for the User, Not the Device– April 7-9– Denver– $1389 (Early Bird)– uxim14.uie.com

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Web (ish)

Webvisions– Multiple Dates – NYC, Portland, Chicago– $250+ (two day pass)– www.webvisionsevent.com

An Event Apart– Multiple Dates– Hotlanta, Boston– $1095+– aneventapart.com/event/atlanta-2014

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HCI/HFE

CHI 2014 – April 26 - May 1– Toronto – $ Not Yet Announced– chi2014.acm.org

HFES– Oct 27-31– Chicago– $200-$425– www.hfes.org/web/hfesmeetings/meetings

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Specialty

Lean UX NYC– 3 days, 35 speakers, and 25 workshops– April 10-12– Ummm…NYC– $395 (Earlybird)– leanuxnyc.co/nyc/

Confab (Content Strategy)– “The biggest annual event for all things content strategy”– May 7-9– Minneapolis– $999+– confabevents.com/events/central

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Design Research Conference– Exploring Creative Balance– October– Chicago– $ Not yet Announced– drc.id.iit.edu

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Crossroads

Re:Design– salon-style discussions with UX/UI industry leaders and your

peers.convergese.com– April 28-29– Brooklyn– $495– www.redesignconference.com

Converge – The conference for everyone working with technology in creative ways.– May 1-4– Columbia, SC– $325+– convergese.com

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Crossroads

• Solid– O'Reilly Solid Conference (conference about intersection of physical/digital

products)– May 21-22 – San Francisco– solidcon.com/solid2014– $TBA

• XOXO– xperimental festival celebrating independently produced art and technology– Septemberish– Location: TBA– $ TBA– xoxofest.com

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Crossroads• Blend Conference

– A generalist conference about user experience, design, and web development.

– Sept (ish)– Charlotte, NC– $ TBA– www.blendconf.com

• Brooklyn Beta – “Our goal is to inspire you to make something you love, something that makes a

difference.”– Octoberish– Crooklyn– $ TBA– brooklynbeta.org

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Crossroads• Big (D)esign

– four intense days of learning within the scope of Strategy, Mobile, User Experience, Gaming, Code Development, Usability, and Film Design.

– October(ish)– Dallas– $ TBA– bigdesignevents.com/conference

• INST-INT– Interactive Installations conference from the people behind EYEO– October – Minneapolis– inst-int.com– $TBA

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Crossroads

• MuseumCamp 2014: Social Impact Assessment – This year is on measuring social impact and ROI; applies beyond museums– Jul-Aug 2014– Santa Cruz– www.santacruzmah.org/museumcamp2014/– $150

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Education & Training

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Options to fit every interest and budget

• Focused skill training -> Broad/deep education• Free -> Significant investment• Do it yourself -> Get whipped into shape by others• Online -> Mixed media -> Hop a plane

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Free & not toooo spendy stuff • Interaction Design Foundation

– Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction– Online courses and other resources

• The UX Bookmark (books & videos)– www.theuxbookmark.com/#container

• Lynda.com– Free and for fee UX and design tutorials

• User Interface Engineering (UIE) – Virtual Seminars. Single or packages– Can purchase complete library access for a period– UI18 On Demand archives

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Consulting firms will train you – not so cheap

• Cooper (UX Design & Consulting: SF)– In person courses– UX Boot Camp: 4 days, & do good at the same time!

• Adaptive Path (UX general: SF)– UX Intensive: 4 day design workshop, global– UX Week conference (Sept: SF)

• Neilsen Norman Group (UX research++: SV)– Usability Week (SD in Feb: odd picture…)– Usability Camp: 3 days

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Full blown courses proliferate – some free!

• Open2Study – Global profs; Australia based; oodles of topics– UX, dev’t, business, psych. Some self-paced– Offers BA/BS degrees

• Udacity; Coursera – MOOCs with a mission: equal access to education– CS, engineering, business, HCI, design (Coursera)– CS, mobile, web dev’t, business, SWE (Udacity)

• HackDesign – Self-paced “experiment” for developers

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Full blown courses proliferate – some not free!

• Online User Experience Institute– Lots of UX courses. About $350 each

• Stanford design (“d”) school– Go get a degree– Or perhaps take a 90 minute crash course for pairs

• General Assembly (based NYC; branch in LA)– For profit training org; you go to “campus”– Semester length, 1 day, hackathons & more– Design, Web Dev’t, Business topics, other

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How do I find out more?

Links for everything we just discussed will be posted on Lisa’s blog

(minus the pithy commentary):

The Interdisciplinary Computing Blog computing4society.blogspot.com

Along with a post about the entire meetup this evening. Replete with pithy commentary.