Join UXPA Boston for our monthly meeting at Essential Design. Evidence-based Design for Evidence-Based Medicine: Evolving Design Thinking toward Sustainability in Healthcare Alan Cooper has written that UX designers must initially assume the system is “magic,” and subsequently develop...
Join UXPA Boston for our monthly meeting at Isobar. Evolution of the UX Capabilities: In-house vs. Consulting Working as a UX consultant for the last 8 years, one of the biggest changes I have noticed over time is the...
Join UXPA Boston for an open board meeting meeting at Mad*Pow. Please bring an ID to check-in with security. RSVP is required by our host company. Open UXPA Boston Board Meeting The UXPA Boston board meets on a monthly...
Join UXPA Boston for our monthly meeting at TripAdvisor. Please bring an ID to check-in with security. RSVP is required by our host company. Solving Complex UX Challenges at Scale with TripAdvisor A clean and consistent user experience can...
Join UXPA Boston for our monthly meeting at Collaborative Consulting, now part of CGI. Please bring an ID to check-in with security. RSVP is required by our host company. Storytelling Strengthens Teams We all tell stories. It is in...
Join UXPA Boston for our monthly meeting at Bentley University User Experience Center UX for Non-Profits: A World Usability Day Event Download a PARKING PERMIT and DRIVING DIRECTIONS prior to the event. About World Usability Day World Usability Day...
Join UXPA Boston for our monthly meeting at HubSpot Design for Anxiety Kevin Kupilas, Senior Product Designer at Hubspot Anxiety is the uninvited guest during customer interactions with our products and can have a serious impact on their behavior and...
Agenda 6:30-7 PM – Registration, Meet & Greet, Refreshments 7-7:15 PM – Welcome and Introduction 7:20-7:45 PM – “All Aboard! Keeping UX on Track at athenahealth” (Brian Manning) 7:50 – 8:20 PM – “How to drive alignment and enhance collaboration within project teams” (Eric...
UXPA 2015 November Monthly Meeting at MathWorks! Agenda 6:00 to 6:30 pm: Meet & Greet, Refreshments 6:30 to 6:45 pm: Opening Remarks by Amy Kidd 6:45 to 7:45 pm: UX Talks by MathWorks UX team 7:45 to 8:30 pm:...
Join us at Sapient to see Julie Rodriguez present her work on data visualizations. Please register with eventbrite.
Register on eventbrite for the next Monthly Meeting. Download a PARKING PERMIT and DRIVING DIRECTIONS prior to the event. As UX practitioners, we use many techniques to test the information architecture and navigation of websites at different stages in development. As use...
Register on eventbrite for the next Monthly Meeting. Our user experience decisions are generally centered on the design and flow of our sites. An increasingly important experience is how fast our applications run. With web sites growing to over...
Register here! The Role of UX in International Education EF’s Global UX Team shares what it’s like to design for a global company whose products include international education tours, language learning and cultural immersion for people around the world....
INNOVATION BY DESIGN with Blade Kotelly Blade Kotelly, Chief Designer, Rapid7 Prior to this, Blade has also served as Chief Designer for Oracle’s Endeca product. Blade has worked on the design of a variety of products for the Fortune 500 including search...
PLEASE NOTE: This event has a new date! Please check the eventbrite for further details. Lessons from Harvard: Using Gamification to Juice Your User Engagement with Dr. B. Price Kerfoot About Dr. Kerfoot; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School Dr. Kerfoot...
UXPA 2014 December Monthly Meeting at athenahealth! A night of innovative UX research and design thinking in healthcare.
Responsible Research and Design — Tips for Avoiding the Unethical Turn of Events In this 10-minute talk, Jen will use recent and historical case studies of how research and design have gone awry, and what could have been done...
Welcome to the first annual UX Fair, an afternoon jam-packed with UX goodness. Please visit Eventbrite for full session description. This event is targeted at students, career changers, job seekers, recruiters,potential employers, and anyone who works or wants to work with UX professionals, including project...
Kate Lawrence, Deirdre Costello, and Melissa Pike presenting: See to Believe: Capturing Insights Using Contextual Inquiry EBSCO’s User Research team recently completed an in-depth, ethnography-style study of physicians’ research habits, including how they judge credibility, how they learn...
Rob Fitzgibbon and Kate O’Connor Presenting: Kate and Rob’s talk will cover how the User Experience field has grown over the past decade, what companies want in a UX professional, and what skills and strengths are currently in demand. Anyone interested in...
Tom Marks and Jake Woodward Presenting: Challenges with the Curated User Expierence Synacor enables its customers to deliver personalized, curated, and relevant experiences to their consumers on all digital devices. “Curated” means we bring together the consumer’s media regardless...
Steve Mulder Presenting: Data and Design: BFFs or Frenemies? For some UX/design teams, anything that comes out of analytics, research, and testing is suspect – like a mugger that could rob us of creativity and innovation. There are traps to...
Diana DeMarco Brown and Jen McGinn Presenting: Five Myths of Agile UX Are you working with an Agile development team? Or have you wondered how Agile + UX works at all? In this talk, we discuss 5 Agile UX...
Words and characters once impressed in clay, written on papyrus, and printed with ink are now manifest in pixels of light. —Laura Franz, Typographic Web Design, 2011 Typography has long been an invaluable tool for communicating ideas and information—...
Event Details Because of the high demand for this event, attendees must sign up via eventbrite and provide proof of registration at the night of the event. Join us for the first ever UXPA monthly meeting at athenahealth for...
Please note: RSVP and photo ID is required to attend this event. Better Product Definition with Lean UX and Design Thinking Jeff Gothelf presenting Requirements-driven product definition is a sure-fire way to get 100% of the wrong product launched....
Join us for our September monthly meeting, hosted by The Big Studio! Michael Tuccinard, Robert Gauvin, and Michael Malone presenting: Don’t Leave Sketching Behind: Getting to Great Solutions Before Jumping into that Program The team at Big Studio will...
Join us for our July monthly meeting, hosted by MadPow! Adam Connor presenting: Lights! Camera! Interaction! Films succeed in evoking responses and engaging audiences only with a combination of well-written narrative and effective storytelling technique. It’s the filmmaker’s job...
Visualization for the Masses Dr. Georges Grinstein Presenting ___________________________________________________________________________________ The June Monthly Meeting was a great success! Kronos and Dr. Georges Grinstein welcomed a great turnout in Chelmsford on June 27th. Below is a link to the Dr. Grinstein’s...
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED TO WEDNESDAY APRIL 24th, SAME TIME AND SAME PLACE. In light of yesterday’s tragic events at the Boston Marathon, we are postponing the UXPA Monthly Meeting by one week. Please mark your calendars...
Have Your Cake and Eat it Too: Achieving An Ideal Work Life Balance as an Independent Consultant Meena Kothandaraman Presenting Eventbrite Registration please refer to Eventbrite for location and logistical information Being an independent consultant in the user experience field...
Transforming your UX team through Collaboration Jennifer Fabrizi and Sarah Bloomer at the Microsoft NERD Center in Cambridge, MA RSVP at http://uxpabos_collab.eventbrite.com Are you new to managing a team of user experience professionals? Are you trying to improve the acceptance and...
RSVP at http://bostonuxpadec12.eventbrite.com. User Research on the Cheap: conduct high-quality user research without breaking the bank! What do you do when you need user feedback, input, or evaluation, butcan’t afford a recruiter, a test lab, or special software? In thistalk,...
As per usual, please RSVP at http://uxsmorgasbord.eventbrite.com UXPA Boston is pleased to invite you to our monthly meeting at Autodesk in Waltham for a Smörgåsbord of exciting short talks. Speakers Seven speakers have agreed to reprise their Ignite talks from...
RSVP here: http://upamitre2012.eventbrite.com UPA Boston Invites you to an evening sponsored by MITRE. We will have 2 presentations. Special Note: Please RSVP, and bring an ID to the meeting due to the security requirements at MITRE. Non-citizens must provide country of citizenship...
Responsive Design and Prototyping – an Agency Model Digitas is pleased to host the April 2012 UPA Boston meeting. We’ll be looking at some of the latest trends we’ve seen in Experience Design. We will discuss how we at...
UPA Boston is excited to invite you to an interactive session about the Education Initiative and its efforts to develop materials to help educate non-practitioners about usability. We hope to see you there! Eventbrite RSVP When: Thursday, April 5 6...
UPA Boston’s last monthly meeting took place on February 1st at One-to-one Interactive in Charlestown, MA. Slides from the presentation are now available on Slideshare. A multidisciplinary panel from next generation digital marketing agency One to One discusses current...
Monday, December 12, 2011 Usability Testing Student Presentations UPA Boston December Meeting will feature short, interactive presentations from the “Usability and User Experience Research” class, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College. Students in class have worked...
UPA Boston is pleased to invite you to a talk about Decision Architecture, hosted by Bank of America. Decision Architecture and UX Todd is browsing your website, contemplating the products and services you offer. Do you know how your...
UPA Boston is pleased to invite you to an evening of Ten-Minute Talks at Raytheon Billerica. Join the excitement as speakers try to beat the clock to present all of their material! We hope to see you there! The Talks –...
UPA Boston invites you to join us for a night of accessibility at the MIT Stata Center in Cambridge. The night will feature three talks from experts in accessibility: Usability and Accessibility, do they make sense together? Members of...
UPA Boston invites you to it’s June monthly meeting! Join us at EnerNOC on June 15th for Kath Straub’s presentation: “Information, design, and the psychology of behavioral change“. Kath will present remotely, but we hope you’ll join us in person...
UPA Boston invites you to its “February” monthly meeting on Thursday, March 3rd. Join us at Onward Search in Boston for a night of UX discussion, mingling, and fun. We’ll be staging a mini ‘Idea Market’ like those offered at UPA International conferences. Four ‘idea...
UPA Boston invites you to its January monthly meeting. Join us Tuesday, January 25th at The MITRE Center in Bedford, MA where Jill Drury and Todd Reily will present: New Technology Applications for Emergency Management Applying Gestural Interfaces to Command-and-Control **RSVP...
UPA Boston is pleased to invite you to its October meeting. Join us at The Boston Globe, Thursday, October 28th for an evening of Ten-Minute Talks. Six speakers will try to beat the clock to present all of their material....
UPA Boston invites you to its September monthly meeting. Join us Tuesday, September 28th for Christine Perfetti’s talk: “Adventurous Usability Techniques: Novel Approaches for Gaining User Insights”. The event will take place at The Creative Group’s offices in downtown Boston. Details...
Greetings, UPA Boston and Boston-IA are pleased to invite you to a joint July meeting. Join us at Staples, Wednesday July 21st, for an evening of Ten-Minute Talks. Six speakers will try to beat the clock to present all of their material....
UPA Boston is pleased to invite you to its May monthly meeting. Join us on Tuesday, May 18th at Fidelity Investments where Bill Albert, Tom Tullis, and Donna Tedesco will present: “Squeezing 1,000 users into the usability lab, or how...
UPA Boston is pleased to invite you to its April monthly meeting. Join us at MathWorks, where their Usability team will present on a range of topics including (details below): 1. Migrating a Corporate Intranet to Microsoft SharePoint 2....
Join us, Tuesday, March 30th , for an interactive discussion entitled: “Agile UX, Yes We Can!”. Alla Zollers will share her experiences with integrating UX into the agile process for the 1st hour. Then, we’ll open it up for larger group discussion and Q&A. Come...
Greetings, UPA Boston invites you to its February monthly meeting. Join us on Tuesday, February 23rd at MITRE’s facitilities in Bedford where Dr. Jill Drury, Lester Holtzblatt, Laurie E. Damianos, and Daniel Weiss will present their research on these 2...
UPA Boston invites you to our January monthly meeting on Wednesday, January 27th at Fidelity‘s offices in downtown Boston. Colleen Roller, Fidelity Senior Usability Specialist, will present: “Beyond Usability: Designing for Persuasion” **RSVP by reserving your spot below:** We hope you will join us!...
UPA Boston invites you to its November monthly meeting on Tuesday, October 27 at Monster Worldwide’s facilities in Maynard, MA. Members of Monster’s User Experience Research team will present: “A Monster of a task: How UX research can drive a unified approach to user-centered...
UPA Boston invites you to its September monthly meeting on Wed, September 30th at EnerNOC’s Headquarters in downtown Boston. Michael Ledoux, EnerNOC User Interface Lead, will present“Designing Dashboards”. He will also give tours of EnerNOC’s command center where dashboards play a critical role in reducing...
UPA Boston invites you to its June monthly meeting next Wed, June 24th at TripAdvisor. Members of TripAdvisor’s user experience design team will present: “From Me to We to Web 2.0: Building a Community – and Company – with Help from the Masses”. Details below. Please...
