Please bring an ID to check-in with security. RSVP is required.  Workshop: Make Meaningful Work By Designing Successful Product Teams Being involved in doing meaningful work is something we all want. The psychiatrist Viktor Frankl famously described how the innate...

Join UXPA Boston for our monthly meeting at Fieldwork Boston for a presentation by GfK and Fieldwork Boston. Testing Medical Devices – a hands-on experience If you’re curious about user experience testing of medical devices, join GfK UX and...

Please join us for our monthly meeting at Acquia, sponsored by Acquia and Boston Interactive. Please bring a photo ID since you may need to check in at the Security desk in the lobby. Sketch You Can! Demystifying a...

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...

UXPA Boston is conducting our first ever State of UXPA Boston survey to get feedback and learn from the local UX community. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey. Feel free to share the survey link with...

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...

Welcome to the third annual UX Fair, an afternoon jam-packed with UX goodness. This event is targeted at students, career changers, and UX professionals who want to network with others. We’ll have thought leaders on hand to provide mentoring...

Lock in last year’s rate Join us on Friday May 19, 2017 for the 16th UXPA Boston Annual Conference at the Sheraton Boston, Boston, MA. We’re in the early stages of planning for the conference so more details are...

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...

Join UXPA Boston for a FREE public showing of this Sundance award-winning feature documentary about the trials & tribulations of creativity. Each attendee will receive admission, one small soda and one small popcorn for free!   Description: “Four developers,...

BostonCHI, UXPA Boston, Boston IxDA, and the other usability and interactions groups of Boston, invite you to join us for our annual winter party at The Asgard, 350 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA between Central Sq and Kendall Sq. Please join...

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:...

Welcome to the second annual UX Fair, an afternoon jam-packed with UX goodness.This event is targeted at students, career changers, and UX professionals who want to network with others.We’ll have thought leaders on hand to provide mentoring and food...

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....

Visit the Conference Website. Join us for the fourteenth annual UXPA Boston conference at the Sheraton Boston Hotel! Learn about and discuss critical topics in usability and user-centered design with practitioners, students, and experts in the field. This conference offers...

3rd Annual Event at LearnLaunch Help education startups at LearnLaunch refine their UI and UX strategy, and make connections in the Boston tech community during this fast-paced and fun event.   What’s LearnLaunch? LearnLaunch’s accelerator program is designed to help...

Note: Please register through Eventbrite. A workshop by the design-driven software consultancy, DockYard  Ever wonder what life at a digital design consultancy would be like? DockYard will show you the ropes of designing a holistic experience starting with research, prototyping,...

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...

BostonCHI, UXPA Boston, and other user experience and interactions groups of Boston, invite you to join us for our annual winter party at The Asgard, 350 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA between Central Sq and Kendall Sq. Please join us on Wednesday, January...

UXPA 2014 December Monthly Meeting at athenahealth! A night of innovative UX research and design thinking in healthcare.  

with Susan Mercer, Senior Experience Researcher, Mad*PoWorkshop Overview It’s very easy for User Experience researchers to get stuck in the rut of using your favorite research methods for gathering information and getting user feedback. But, are you really gathering the...

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...

For our November meeting we will be discussing The User Experience Team of One by Leah Buley. “The User Experience Team of One prescribes a range of approaches that have big impact and take less time and fewer resources than the...

Get schooled at Speaker Camp with a UXPA Boston Scholarship Five lucky presenters-in-training will receive $25 off $50 at Speaker Camp Boston (coming October 11). Graduates of Speaker Camp will also receive priority consideration for 10 minute student/first-time speaker talks at the UXPA Boston Conference next May....

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...

Grab the ebook or paperback for 15% off with code ‘UXPABoston’ below. Code expires on 7/13. http://www.abookapart.com/products/mobile-first —– The UX Book Club seeks to enhance the abilities and knowledge of user experience professionals from information architects and interaction designers...

Sorry everyone, we have to cancel the picnic due to the vagaries of NE weather. We’ll see you next year! ———– The annual picnic is back! It’s our day to celebrate all the hard work the local UX community does...

Attend the inaugural book club meeting to get involved! —– The UX Book Club seeks to enhance the abilities and knowledge of user experience professionals from information architects and interaction designers to visual designers and usability specialists to augment...

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...

Five board members are up for re-election this year!  Support the candidates and have your voice heard.  All members are eligible to vote.  To become a member, just join our mailing list. In-person voting will take place at the...

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...

Event will take place at LearnLaunchX in the Back Bay Help 8 education startups at LearnLaunchX refine their UI and UX strategy, and make connections in the Boston tech community during this fast-paced and fun event. What’s LearnLaunchX? LearnLaunchX’s accelerator program...

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...

Interested in what goes on behind the scenes?  Join the UXPA Boston Board members for their December meeting. We’ll be reviewing our plans for upcoming events, our financial status, and then opening the floor to questions from the membership....

BostonCHI, UXPA Boston, and other usability and interactions groups of Boston, invite you to join us for our annual winter party at The Asgard, 350 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA between Central Sq and Kendall Sq. Please join us on Wednesday, January...

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....

Eventbrite Registration Please refer to Eventbrite for location and logistical information Overview You strive to be ‘user centric’, but when you haven’t done the background research, who exactly is the user you are talking about? You’ve likely found that...

Eventbrite Registration please refer to Eventbrite for location and logistical information Overview Too often, applications either look great or are highly functional. The product team wants a great interface, but balancing aesthetics and functionality is a challenge, often leaving one...

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...

Eventbrite Registration please refer to Eventbrite for location and logistical information Overview Design is not a straight path, and we often fall back into our comfort zone of designing what we know. Sketching is the designer’s tool for exploring...

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...

Event will take place at LearnLaunchX in the Back Bay RSVP at Eventbrite Help 8 education startups at LearnLaunchX refine their UI and UX strategy, and make connections in the Boston tech community during this fast-paced and fun event. What’s LearnLaunchX?...

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...

Usability and User Experience 2013 Join us on Wednesday, May 29th for the twelfth annual UXPA conference at the Sheraton Boston Hotel! Learn about and discuss critical topics in usability and user-centered design with practitioners, students, and experts in the field....

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...

Making Meaningful Research, Making Research Meaningful Eventbrite Registration please refer to Eventbrite for location and logistical information Overview The results of research can take on many forms, and it is our job to effectively communicate these outcomes to a...

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...

As usual, we are co-hosting our winter social event with Boston CHI and other local organizations. Details at http://biwinterparty2013-eac2.eventbrite.com

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,...

Sketching: From Ideation to Concept Development with Sarah Bloomer Register at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4223203716/eorg Overview Design is not a straight path, and we often fall back into our comfort zone of designing what we know. Sketching is the designer’s tool for exploring...

All Events listed here are happening at the Microsoft NERD Center in Cambridge, MA (http://microsoftcambridge.com/About/Directions/tabid/89/Default.aspx). Note that this is a daytime event – if you work in Cambridge, please stop by and see us! RSVP here: http://worldusabilitydayboston2012.eventbrite.com Schedule of Events...

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...

Register at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3784666038/es2?rank=2 Overview Your participant is flirting with you. Your participant found your Facebook profile before the session. Your observers are being rambunctious. As moderators, we have to be prepared to face a number of common, uncommon, bizarre, and...

Register at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3784483492/es2?rank=3 Overview A meaningful and fulfilling career can be yours! The UX profession has exploded on the scene and the demand for UX professionals has skyrocketed. Now is the time to follow your passion! Does one of these statements describe...

Register at http://2012uxpamovie-eorg.eventbrite.com/ Join us for Movie Night UXPA Boston invites the Boston design and interaction community to a special summer screening of the movie “Exit Through the Gift Shop” on Wednesday, August 29 at the Regent Theatre, Arlington MA....

Conference schedule  | Conference Booklet (PDF) | Conference/Session Feedback (PDF) #EpicFail! A/B Test Results vs. UX Best Practices Susan Rice/Kirk Doggett If you design a flow, you’re going to include a progress indicator, right? If you have a button, you’re going to specify where...

This year’s Usability and User Experience conference will take place on Monday, May 7th, 2012 at Sheraton Boston Hotel, 39 Dalton Street, Boston, MA 02199. Attendee Information Registration Conference Schedule  | Conference Booklet (PDF)  | Conference/Session Feedback (PDF) Session Descriptions Location/Getting There Parking – $39/day...

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...

A half-day interactive workshop for researchers, designers, and anyone who practices UX research. Eventbrite Registration One of the biggest challenges and top frustration causes for UX research and usability practitioners lies in getting buy-in for research from stakeholders. People have trouble...

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...

The annual Boston Interactions Party, co-sponsored by UPA Boston, Boston CHI, and other local usability organizations will take place on Tuesday, January 24, at the Asgard in Central Square, Cambridge. Stay tuned for details.

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 –...

The world is abuzz with agile. Companies are adopting new ways of working that threaten the traditional role of user experience. Has your team started having daily stand-ups? Working from a backlog? Splitting work into sprints? Integrating successful UX...

Join us for Movie Night UPA Boston invites the Boston design and interaction community to a special summer screening of the movie “Objectified” on Tues, August 30 at the Regent Theatre, Arlington MA. Basic Info (details below) •     Networking...

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...

Tenth Annual Usability and User Experience 2011 conference took place on Wednesday, May 25, 2011 the Cambridge Hyatt and attracted over 600 attendees. The conference had four simultaneous tracks, giving attendees a choice of over 30 presentations. Eventbrite Attendee List http://2011bostonupa.eventbrite.com/...

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...

You are invited to our fourth annual cross group event, bringing members of all of the premier Boston-area Interaction organizations together for one big night of food and fun. Please join us on Tuesday evening, January 18th, in a private...

Celebrate World Usability Day Boston 2010 Join us for UX Trivia Night – aka “The Smackdown” – and celebrate the 6th annual World Usability Day.  Sponsored by: Whether you’re a UX novice, expert practitioner, or anywhere inbetween, this is chance to have...

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...

Stories are an effective way to collect, analyze and share qualitative information from user research, spark design imagination and help us create usable products. We all tell stories all the time, but to craft a story for a particular...

Join us for Movie Night UPA Boston invites the Boston design and interaction community to a special summer screening of the movie “Temple Grandin” on Tues, August 31 at the Regent Theatre, Arlington MA. Basic Info (details below) •     Networking at...

Greetings, UPA Boston and BostonCHI are pleased to invite you to the second annual Summer Pot Luck Picnic.  The picnic is on Tuesday evening, July 27th, from 6pm to dusk.  Please feel free to bring significant others, children, and pets, and of...

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....

Tom is looking at a website that sells computers.  He’s wondering whether he should splurge for the laptop with all the bells and whistles, or opt for something cheaper. As the Designer of the site, you’ve done the usability...

Ninth Annual Usability and User Experience conference took place on Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at Bentley University. The conference had four simultaneous tracks, giving attendees a choice of over 30 presentations, relevant to thought-leaders, designers, developers, usability professionals, usability novices, and others....

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...