News & Updates

Joshua Randall Director of Education Join us in welcoming UXPA International’s new Director of Education, Joshua Randall! He is a Senior User Experience Designer at The Home Depot and past President of UXPA Cleveland. We asked Joshua a few questions so our members can learn more about our newest Board Member! 1) How did you get started in UX? I began my career in market research, then moved into I.T. business analysis. While a BA, I started asking questions like, ‘Who are we building this for?’ and ‘How well does this meet their needs?’ My eyes were opened when, at a BA association meeting, we had a guest speaker who was a UX designer. She recommended some books to me …

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Dear UX Community, We have received a number of messages from the UX community, including UXPA members, about our choice to have the venue for the UXPA 2024 International Conference in South Florida, and we wanted to provide an explanation of the event location. As a small, non-profit organization that tries to vary the geography for our annual conference, we are forced to contract our conference venues many years in advance. Our selection of The Diplomat Beach Resort for the 2024 conference took place 4 years ago. The financial penalties for canceling or moving our conference at this late juncture are substantial, and it would put our organization in significant financial distress. Additionally, we believe that by pulling our conference …

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Claudia BruckschwaigerUXPA Europe Regional Director We are so excited to announce that Claudia Bruckschwaiger, managing partner at Swohlwahr in Vienna, Austria, has accepted the position of Europe Regional Director. Claudia is also serving as Deputy Chair of the Accreditation Board for theInternational Accreditation Program for UX Professionals and we all recently got to meet in person at UXPA 2023 in Austin, Texas last month! We asked Claudia a few questions so our members can learn a little about our newest Board Member! 1) How did you get started in UX? Starting out as a user interface designer in early 2000 was my first step into UX, with a brief detour into the gaming industry. User experience and demand-driven design had a huge impact …

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We are thrilled to announce that the International Accreditation Program for UX Professionals has been officially endorsed by UXPA International. The program was developed by UXPA Austria, with support from the GermanUPA, and was launched internationally in October 2022 at the World Usability Congress in Graz. The accreditation program will join UXPA International at their booth during the UXPA INTERNATIONAL 2023 Conference in Austin. Following this endorsement of the accreditation program, all members of UXPA International and its chapters are now eligible for a reduced accreditation fee. About the International Accreditation Program for UX Professionals: The program provides a listing in a register of UX professionals, after a due review of work history and professionalism. The register shows the shared …

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Did you know that November 10th is World Usability Day (WUD)? Established in 2005 by the User Experience Professionals Association (formerly the Usability Professionals Association, UPA), World Usability Day (WUD) occurs annually to promote the values of usability, usability engineering, user-centered design, universal usability, and every user’s responsibility to ask for things that work better. The goal of the World Usability Initiative (WUI) is to connect the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and the User Experience (UX) communities and everyone who believes that great design is inclusive and usable by all, to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals by establishing World Usability Day as an internationally observed day, listed on the United Nations calendar. In this year’s theme “Our Health” we explore …

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