Collaboration is essential to almost all modern design tasks. It can provide a fresh perspective on a problem, inspire creativity, and improve communication between team members. The November issue of User Experience magazine has articles that discuss some of the tools and techniques that are available to help UX designers or anybody sharpen their collaboration skills.
Hello again, UXPA Community! This is the second President’s Corner blog post, and it is a special one. Just in time for World Usability Day today, and the User Friendly 2013 conference in Shanghai next week, we are very proud to announce our new membership model. This is the results of nearly 3 years of true UX research: we talked to members, did competitive assessment, looked at trends in professional organization membership, and collaborated with all of the stakeholders within UXPA to make this a reality. What we are launching is a new tiered model of membership in UXPA, intended to provide our members a compelling, flexible set of benefits at various price levels. We have split our …
Hello UXPA community, and welcome to the first Presidents Corner blog post. Over the next two months I’ll be blogging once or twice a week on what is going on with UXPA. Each post will feature a different area of our organization. For the past few years we have been reinventing what UXPA is from the ground up. It hasn’t always been easy or fun, but we are in a place right now where we can provide information on what this organization is, what our strategic vision is, and why being a member of UXPA is great for your career and for the UX profession as a whole. This first blog post will focus on governance. Basically, UXPA is a …
Sharing perspectives and ideas can stimulate creativity. With this in mind, the new issue of User Experience magazine hears from authors with unique perspectives and experiences as it takes a look at the lessons we can learn from hearing from others in the UX community.
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Well, I’ve had a few weeks distance from the UXPA conference in DC: time enough to recuperate and reflect. For those of you who couldn’t make it to the conference in DC, we missed you. We missed your conversation, your company at meals, your insightful presentations, your stimulating questions. And I’d like to share a little bit of what you missed in the hopes that we’ll see you very soon at another UXPA conference. (There’s one in Shanghai in November and one in London in 2014!).
