SGVUX Events SGVUX#38: Outdoor Escape Room in Pasadena We are planning an in-person meetup with a brunch and an escape room outdoors in the city of Pasadena.
SGVUX Events SGVUX#37 Conference Redux The month of March brings us a number of great conferences that we're attending. From World IA Day Los Angeles, to CSUN's assistive tech conference (March 14-17), to IAC23 (March 28-April 1, New Orleans), there are plenty of topics to inspire us and share what we've learned. Bring it in
SGVUX Events SGVUX#33: An Intro to personal knowledge management It's a challenge to organize our work, let alone our lives. Luckily there's smarter ways of doing so!
SGVUX Events SGVUX#32: A user research critique event to hone your craft UX Designers aren’t the only ones to benefit from a critique. How often do you get to reflect on your own research interviewing skills?
SGVUX Events SGVUX#31: Let's talk UX No matter what stage your project is in, work or passion, we're a "community of strangers and friends" to give critique, evaluate, discuss and give feedback to help you on your project. These discussions will help presenters talk through, learn, and iterate on whatever they're working on. Don't know how
SGVUX Events SGVUX#30: Peer Mentoring As designers we all know that we grow best by learning from one another. Plus, who wouldn't want to make a new friend?
SGVUX Events SGVUX#29: Product Management in Games Albert Liu shares his experience as a product manager in games.
SGVUX Events Featured SGVUX#28: Privacy UX and Dark Patterns Two Octobers ago, we hosted our first event on dark patterns. Jesse Lee Despard and Wanda Seto showed up in costume and gave an "evil by design" talk. It was good, spooky, and awesome. It was recorded live, but we didn't have a good microphone at the time. Ah, pre-COVID
SGVUX Events SGVUX#27: Using GitHub for UX DIA Design Guild uses GitHub [https://github.com/] for planning, documentation, and all sorts of things not related to development (yet). Well, we're figuring it out along the way and learning ways to instill a practice and reverence for documentation, accountability, and transparency in the same environment as developers so
SGVUX Events SGVUX#26: September Social with apprentices When Grace first started this endeavor 4 years ago this month with Alexis Mendoza [https://www.diadesign.io/about/team/alexis-mendoza/] and Geno Sanchez [https://www.diadesign.io/about/team/geno-sanchez/], our mission was to be that training place for new and transitioning UX/tech practitioners to practice and build
SGVUX Events SGVUX#25: The UX of Asian Dramas Seven of us met in a secret Zoom room and talked about Asian dramas for a whole hour. A Miro board helped us visualize the drama-watching experience we watched as we called out gateway dramas; listed out characteristics of the drama-curious, drama-casual, and the drama-addict; and prompted conversations about how
SGVUX Events Featured SGVUX#24: What does it mean to work in UX? Let's talk about what it means to work in UX (… or we could talk about what it means to build a community around the Asian drama watching experience). This past month on our Discord community, we started talking about foundational UX, agile UX, different design processes and design teams at
SGVUX Events Ask Me Anything Product Managers In which we had invited 3 product managers to talk about their experiences
SGVUX Events Featured Navigating the World of UX Jobs Grace Lau kicking off our meetup in Iona workspaceWhat does it mean to work in User Experience? * Do you have to be a designer? * What’s with all the different UX job titles? * Why are there so many different UX job titles: UX designer, product designer, service designer? * How do
SGVUX Events Featured How Experience Designers are the New Event Planners: The Initial Designs for BBQUX SGVUX’s founder, Grace Lau, gave a talk and a workshop on “How Experience Designers are the New Event Planners.”
SGVUX Events Featured Quantifying Qualitative Decisions at SGVUX4: That time when the Madagascar hissing cockroach is the best choice for a classroom pet Our fourth San Gabriel Valley UX meetup took place on June 11, 2019, at the Wonderwall Space in Pomona, California. This was a continuation of our bias in design series; apparently, we have a theme but didn’t realize it. 🤦♀
SGVUX Events Featured Telling stories about the impact of culture on design and tech at SGVUX3 Our third San Gabriel Valley UX meetup took place on May 7, 2019 at the Liferay headquarters in Diamond Bar, California. The theme was a focus on the impact of culture on design and technology.
SGVUX Events Speed mentoring recap at SGVUX2 This past Tuesday (April 2, 2019), theSGVux group met for our second event and it was pure mentoring happiness — chaotic, but good networking goodness. Continuing our love of food and culture, Ray (who helped out with food and beverages for the event) brought in his personal collection of Starbucks-related books
SGVUX Events The start of yet another hyperlocal UX/design group in Greater Los Angeles The dream started in 2007 when the Los Angeles User Experience Meetup met for the first time in April and began the legacy that it has today as one of the largest volunteer-run User Experience (UX)…
