UXPA Boston

Have Your Cake and Eat it Too: Achieving An Ideal Work Life Balance as an Independent Consultant Meena Kothandaraman Presenting Eventbrite Registration please refer to Eventbrite for location and logistical information Being an independent consultant in the user experience field has its many perks: choose your projects, choose your hours, and be your own boss so [...]

Transforming your UX team through Collaboration Jennifer Fabrizi and Sarah Bloomer at the Microsoft NERD Center in Cambridge, MA RSVP at http://uxpabos_collab.eventbrite.com Are you new to managing a team of user experience professionals? Are you trying to improve the acceptance and effectiveness of your user experience team?  Or maybe you’ve got a mature UX practice and are [...]

As usual, we are co-hosting our winter social event with Boston CHI and other local organizations. Details at http://biwinterparty2013-eac2.eventbrite.com

RSVP at http://bostonuxpadec12.eventbrite.com. User Research on the Cheap: conduct high-quality user research without breaking the bank! What do you do when you need user feedback, input, or evaluation, butcan’t afford a recruiter, a test lab, or special software? In thistalk, we’ll give you our best free (and low-cost) tools and research techniques to obtain the data [...]

Sketching: From Ideation to Concept Development with Sarah Bloomer Register at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4223203716/eorg Overview Design is not a straight path, and we often fall back into our comfort zone of designing what we know. Sketching is the designer’s tool for exploring ideas – a technique often underutilized by user experience designers. Bill Buxton describes sketching as a [...]

All Events listed here are happening at the Microsoft NERD Center in Cambridge, MA (http://microsoftcambridge.com/About/Directions/tabid/89/Default.aspx). Note that this is a daytime event – if you work in Cambridge, please stop by and see us! RSVP here: http://worldusabilitydayboston2012.eventbrite.com Schedule of Events 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM – Breakfast & conversation   9:00 AM – 10:00 PM – [...]

As per usual, please RSVP at http://uxsmorgasbord.eventbrite.com UXPA Boston is pleased to invite you to our monthly meeting at Autodesk in Waltham for a Smörgåsbord of exciting short talks. Speakers Seven speakers have agreed to reprise their Ignite talks from UXPA 2012, but there is room for more. Short talks of all manner are welcome. Submit [...]

RSVP here: http://upamitre2012.eventbrite.com UPA Boston Invites you to an evening sponsored by MITRE. We will have 2 presentations. Special Note: Please RSVP, and bring an ID to the meeting due to the security requirements at MITRE. Non-citizens must provide country of citizenship and affiliation below.  Schedule: 6PM Networking (Light dinner will be provided) 7PM Introductions & Presentations 8:30PM [...]

Register at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3784666038/es2?rank=2 Overview Your participant is flirting with you. Your participant found your Facebook profile before the session. Your observers are being rambunctious. As moderators, we have to be prepared to face a number of common, uncommon, bizarre, and interesting situations. We rely on many of the same skills as a circus ringmaster – creativity, flexibility, [...]

Register at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3784483492/es2?rank=3 Overview A meaningful and fulfilling career can be yours! The UX profession has exploded on the scene and the demand for UX professionals has skyrocketed. Now is the time to follow your passion! Does one of these statements describe you? You have a successful career but in some ways, it lacks meaning and doesn’t give [...]