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UX Speakeasy’sHappy New UX Year
Happy New UX Year
2014 Conferences
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Happy New UX Year
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Happy New UX Year
Happy New UX Year
LocalWorld 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
Happy New UX Year
LocalValioCon
– 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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GeneralConvey 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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Happy New UX Year
GeneralGiant 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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MobileUX 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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Happy New UX Year
HCI/HFECHI 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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Specialty Design Research Conference– Exploring Creative Balance– October– Chicago– $ Not yet Announced– drc.id.iit.edu
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CrossroadsRe: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
Happy New UX Year
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
Happy New UX Year
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.
