DIA Design Guild

April 2022 Roundup: IAC, World IA Day, and Open Design Critique

April ended... rather quickly. We at DIA Design Guild have been keeping busy with projects, events, and planning. In this month's roundup, we have so much to share! IAC 2022: the information architecture conferenceSince August, a fair number of apprentices have been volunteering for IAC, which wrapped up last week.

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UX Book Club

Representing D for diversity and design at the UX Book Club - Why We Stopped Reading “Design Of Everyday Things”

A foundational UX book turns into a discussion for diversity and biases.

Game Studio

Game Studio Update — March 2022

The DIA Game Studio shares its progress as of March 2022.

Accessibility

Focusing on the 'A' in DIA: Our Journey in Accessibility for 2022

How we’re making accessibility a focus within the company and the initiatives we’re working on.

Announcements

DIA is hosting World IA Day LA 2022!

We're excited to announce that DIA's hosting WIAD LA 2022!

Announcements

Announcing the new 2022 Apprentices!

It wasn't that long ago that we were asked, Is DIA going to have a new cohort? And we posted an announcement on LinkedIn during the last week of 2021 that we were accepting applications. Next thing we knew, Boom!

Announcements

New Year, New Mentors in 2022

DIA welcomes 6 new mentors to the Apprentice Program!

Transparency around apprentice selection

Apprenticeship

Pulling back the curtain on the apprentice selection process

We've been getting a lot of applications for the DIA Design Guild's Apprentice Program and we want to be transparent about how we're reviewing the applications.

Apprenticeship

Be a mentor with DIA

How we mentor has a lot to do with our UX philosophy: User experience is a mindset, a process, and an approach to everyday life.

Announcements

Looking ahead at 2022

Using the end of the year as a time to do a retrospective of DIA's 2021 journey, we've summarized a few takeaways and plans for the coming year.

Apprenticeship

Accepting apprentice applications for 2022

DIA Design Guild is preparing for the 2022 cohort for DIA Design Guild's apprentice program, starting in late January and lasting about 9 months.

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DIA's End of 2021 Ask

Help us continue to pay it forward in 2022 by making a one-time year-end contribution to support our apprenticeship program and virtual UX events.

Process

Project In-Flight: What happens in a 6-week product UX assessment project?

DIA Design Guild is in the midst of our first paid engagement with a health tech company that has teams here in the US, Mexico, and India. While we can't share the specifics of what we're working on, it's safe to share learnings from our process and team dynamics.

Migrating from Meetup to Luma

SGVUX meetup growth since July 15, 2019We’ve got changes! Meetup has been great at enabling event discovery, but we’re trying something new – and consolidating the multitude of ways that we connect and engage with members of the SGVUX community. Did you know that since we started the San