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.

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 …

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

User testing group for Meetup employees.

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.

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 …

To inspire and help designers pursue, do, and succeed at what they love. We are building a strong, passionate community for current NYC designers either at startups or looking to join startups, to inspire, collaborate, and mentor each other. We'll have a mix of Speaker Sessions, Happy Hours, and other fun events to help you excel in your design career. Note: This group is for professional designers and is not open to entrepreneurs, engineers, design enthusiasts, or recruiters. Please do not appl …

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 …

Welcoming startup folks and professionals in UX, IA, product, design, etc. to be one another's usability testers as well as discuss UX trends, best practices, and strategies.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

Making Android apps more beautiful. This is a group for professional, novice and aspiring Android app designers.

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 …

The Design Task Force for Global Change is an interdisciplinary team that addresses the citizen usability of software and mobile applications with organizations such as The Guardian Project, Open Internet Tools Project, Witness.org, Georgia Law Society Project, and many more. Comprised of designers and open source developers, The Task Force meets semi-regularly to discuss the UX/UI/design strengths and weaknesses of current software projects in development; discuss software usability from a desi …

UX School's mission is to help UX designers build their skills and portfolio, through hands-on workshops, one-on-one critiques, and lectures from leaders in the field.

Tech Under Thirty is a new meetup group for designers & tech-oriented people under the age of thirty. If you’re a game developer, a web designer, a print designer, an engineer, blogger, or anything in between, you should definitely join us. No experience required! Our focuses include: Encouraging people in design & tech industries to meet and cross-pollinate ideas. Building a word-of-mouth network to make finding jobs & recommending qualified people easier. Enabling people to learn new skills i …

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 …

This is a private meetup group in NYC for anyone connected to Pivotal Labs and interested in design. If you have worked in some capacity on a Pivotal project actively or recently, please feel free to join. We are open to all pivots, clients, freelancers, business leaders, product peepz and anyone who is interested in design. We will keep the meetups informal and fun, and will surely satisfy that design conversation you've been DYING to have all month. Our goals are: networking, informal feedback …

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.

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