If you want to join a group that is focused on user research and usability, then this is the place! Come swap strategies and war stories with folks who are practicing user research and usability every day. Need help figuring out how to test your latest mobile app? Want to become a better interviewer? Looking for ideas to pitch your boss on a bigger usability budget? Whether you are the only researcher at your company, or 1 of 1,000 - your stories and strategies are needed!

Do you believe web sites should be about something? Not just well-coded and well-designed, but filled with information that's interesting, fun, provocative, substantial ... and most of all, well-written and well-produced? Are you in the Seattle area? Then you belong here. (Especially if you're a content strategist, want to be a content strategist, want to work with content strategists, or are curious about the idea of content strategy.) Seattle has lots and lots of web professionals, and a small …

AVIOS is an international speech technology applications professional society, and we have launched a local chapter in Seattle. Our mission is to: Build a vibrant speech technology community to encourage future commercial and research partnerships Increase awareness of current and future speech technology trends Stimulate innovation and further investment into speech technology Our goal is to bring together researchers, industry suppliers, companies using speech technology, developers and design …