The goals of the CT chapter of the User Experience Professionals' Association include to: 1. Provide a local network through which user experience professionals can share information about the techniques and methodologies in the profession. 2. Create an inclusive community for those interested in user experience, whether it is their primary focus or a related discipline. 3. Change new product development processes to include a concern for the people who use them by presenting the business case f …

The SLI Systems meetup group is dedicated to discussing various topics around eCommerce site search, navigation, SEO, merchandising and analytics. Our goal is to provide a forum to learn best practices and share ideas on improving eCommerce site conversion and other metrics, and strategies to gain customer loyalty. We welcome current SLI Systems customers as well as anyone interested in improving the performance, usability and efficiency of their eCommerce site.

NYC UX Acrobatics primary focus is the varied facets of UX design, research and usability. Our aim is to create monthly 'UX themed' workshop style meetings where members work with each other learning, discovering and networking on all things UX. Potential topics: paper prototyping, experience maps, user research and testing, persona dev, a/b testing, front-end best practices, RWD (Responsive Web Design), PET Design (Persuasion, Emotion, and Trust Design), competitive analysis, sketching UX, cont …

A connected group of Albany UX professionals, enthusiasts and students. Regular informal social meetups with varied topics (discussions, speakers).  If you are a user experience professional/enthusiast/student or are just looking to bring a better user experience to your application/site/product, we look forward to connecting with you. Topics include a broad range of practices/technologies that enable user-centric software and web experiences: AJAX, CSS3, Content Strategy, Human Computer Interac …

Grab a wireframe, a color palette, and a cocktail glass to mix it up with local user-experience pros. The UX meetup is a casual monthly gathering to meet local designers, swap industry techniques and news, and celebrate the remarkable design talent in Providence. If you dig liquids, interaction design, information architecture, and usability, come join us!

This is a group for all of the professional designers who live and breathe graphic design, typography, usability, interaction and design thinking. I started this group to bring the design community in the Sound Shore and Lower Westchester area together. We will focus on the craft of graphic design with small talks, critiques and industry discussions. Join us share your work, your techniques and meet like minded designers.

An opportunity for Product Managers, Strategists,etc., to come together to meet, interact, and network. The ideal environment within which sharing and learning can flourish and complement the knowledge base for all on a peer to peer basis.

The Optimizing Mobile Apps Meetup is for anyone with a passion for mobile metrics, mobile user experience, conversion optimization, increasing video consumption as well as performing A/B testing on a mobile app - This is a group who shares best practices about optimizing mobile apps - specific topics include mobile UX case studies, tools, latest lessons learned and of course networking! There will be plenty to share and learn about for those from agencies to stand-alone app owners to ecommerce t …

Design Founders: A community for designers turned entrepreneurs. Whether you're a designer launching a tech startup, a clothing-line, a letterpress shop, or a non-profit, you're likely navigating the same challenges, and sharing the same goals, as other designers-turned-founders. Our goal is to connect designers who are creating new companies so we can exchange our shared experiences, challenges, best practices and resources. This group could also become a forum for sharing work in progress, c …

Exercise that doesn't feel like exercise! Are you looking for a fun way to have a fit, sexy body and serene mind? Do you remember what it felt like as a child to skip, jump, and dance for joy? This Get Fit Beyond 40 class is an inspiring, integrative fusion fitness class for your body, mind and spirit. The class can be adapted to fit your personal needs and can be experienced by anyone as it is user-friendly, easy and playful…it is medicine for body, mind and spirit. You'll experience the expr …

Code monkeys, pixel pushers and web heads unite! Join us each month for an informal get-together to discuss web development trends, tools and techniques. These lunch-hour meetings, hosted at Providence area restaurants, will give you the chance to examine such topics as web design, semantics, standards, accessibility, usability, servers, clients (as in software or as in people), popular trends, and any other topics that our members are interested in.

Thoughtworks is a home for anyone interested in user experience design and the development of technology products. Join us for talks, workshops, and new perspectives on UX, and meet others in the experience design community. TW NYC is located at 99 Madison, floor 15.

A group of web developers meets monthly to build web apps and learn how to do it right and fast using open source, web standards and various API (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Google, Meetup and more). @StartupAPI The list of topics ranges from Security and Identity to Usability and Analytics. If you know a good topic we should discuss, please add it to the wiki, maybe even add some links to good articles / videos about it. We also code web applications right at the meetings - using whatever we want …

This workshop series will cover the fundamentals of design through short expert talks and interactive design exercises; it will focus on how to design products that meet users’ needs in as easy and delightful a way as possible. The free workshops, which are only for students, will meet every other Tuesday at 6:30pm. Design is about creating something to achieve a goal. Maybe you want to design an iPhone app to help people eat more healthily. Or maybe you want to create a piece of public policy …

Brooklyn. User Experience. Happy hour. We meet irregularly--three or four times a year. And it's fun. Really, is there much more to say?

Huge Events are open to anyone who has interest in UX, design, agency life and more. Join us for a fun evening of refreshments, networking and talks by design professionals and leaders in the industry.

Welcome to the New York City SEO/SEM Meet Up group. We're a group of SEO and SEM professionals and enthusiasts united to learn and have fun (sometimes in that order, sometimes not). We're interested in: - Networking, and meeting other SEO/SEM practitioners. - SEO (site structure, information architecture, on-page optimization, link building, etc.) - PPC -Analytics/Tracking -Usability -Conversion Rate Improvement -Search-Optimized Content Creation -and many other topics Suggestions are …

We will talk shop and share thoughts on IA, IxD, UI, UX and Mobile.

Best Practices is a non-profit organization that aims to tap into the experience, knowledge, secrets of the most successful CEO’s/business leaders to form best practices usable by all.

HUGE Events is a way for HUGErs and non-HUGErs to get together over common interests. Anyone interested in agency life, design, or tech is welcome! Upcoming Meetups: The State of HTML5, Summer 2011: Sparkle Edition™(featuring Paul Irish) http://www.meetup.com/doctype-html/events/22447051/ Tues, July 5 @7pm

This is a place for all local IxDA professionals to talk and exchange thoughts and ideas. No matter if you’re just starting a career in Interaction Design (IxD) or you've been doing this for years, everyone is welcome. This is where you read about updates, ask for help or feedback on ideas and over time also will be able to search message archives for hopefully valuble info.

This is a group for people interested in content strategy and anything to do with creating or managing content for the web.

KTCP By "Kyusho International" The Kyusho Tactical Control Program is designed for Law Enforcement, Security Personnel, EMS, or any other Agency that might have a need to physically control and restrain someone after the initial stage of verbal command has passed. Because the "use of force" issue is under fierce public attention, field officer's own safety is put at risk. The brave men and women who are in charge of protecting us are up against brutal and uncaring criminals. They are being forc …

This is a group for people affected by type 1 diabetes whose careers are dedicated to technology, engineering, data, or design.

A group to discuss digital user experience (UX) both on web and mobile platforms. Meetings could cover research or innovative real world examples & case studies Design topics can include (but not limited to) interaction design, UI design, mobile app design (iPhone, iPad, Android), usability, site stickiness, human-computer interaction, value of entertainment factor beyond core conversions, etc. From the data side of things we'd like to have discussions around using data to drive and measure UX …

This group is for those who want to: - Learn usable tips and ideas on integrated, holistic approaches to healing. - Those who wish to increase personal awareness and uncover patterns in their lives through alternative methods. -Those who want to deepen their spirituality or sense of self through improving their health -Those who desire to take responsibility for their own healing and are motivated to make changes in their thoughts, deeds and lives. The focus will be monthly lectures that are fun …

This is a meeting place and professional development network for user experience professionals (including information architects, usability professionals, interaction designers, visual designers, systems analysts, and business analysts) in northern New Jersey. We're building interactions and content to help users get the results they want and need. You can log in using the blue "Log in" link at the top of the page. If you're new to the group and want to join, you can register using the "Sign u …

Natural user interface (NUI) is about to take the world as the newest revolution in computing and devices. The next tech rock stars are the people developing NUI and the businesses they envision will be the next hot tech start-ups. We are those people that are changing the world and the way people interact and experience things through our projects, products, and start-ups. We use voice control, voice recognition, facial recognition, eye tracking, gesture, motion capture, emotional response, sen …