News & Updates

I hope everyone had a healthy and relaxing holiday season. 2019 was a busy one for our UXPA International Board! We presented some great online courses and webinars, held a fantastic annual conference in Scottsdale, AZ and had our first ever Latin American conference in Chile, UXLat. We reworked our website, helped provide more support for our local chapters and published more excellent content in both our magazine and journal. Sadly, we also had to see the departure of three of our amazing Board members, who terms ended December 2019. Jen Romano Bergstrom (past President and Past Marketing Director), Jean Fox (our Director of Finance/Treasurer extraordinaire) and Lauren Schaefer (Past Marketing Director, Director of Web). While these awesome women will …

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One of UXPA International’s aspirations is to bring resources to the UX community and our members. Webinars, articles of our magazine and journal, short courses and, of course, our annual conference are great experiences that gather our members and the professional community together. This year we wanted to expand our efforts on sharing knowledge and content so we went to Latin America, specifically to Santiago, Chile, for our First UXLAT Conference. In combination with the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, UXPA organized the event where for three days, leaders of different Latin-American countries, UXPA Board members and other US and LATAM professionals, shared use cases and reflections about the industry in the region and around the world. The event was …

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User Experience Magazine, the magazine of the User Experience Professionals Association, seeks submissions for Issue 20.1: Multilanguage/Content Strategy – January/February 2020A global world demands global content. But working in different languages, involves also different cultural backgrounds and different contexts. This issue will focus on Multilanguage/Content strategies, processes, methods and use cases in the UX field. View the article submission guidelines here: http://uxpamagazine.org/information-for-authors/ The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2019. Questions? Email uxmagazine@uxpa.org.

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If you are reading this, you know that we have updated our website! While the site is still in progress and evolving, it is light years better than our old one, and a big reason is Lauren Schaefer. Lauren Schaefer has been working for over nine months to get our new UXPA.org website ready. As many of you know from similar experiences, this initiative has a lot of moving parts, including gathering user feedback (we live and breathe UX after all!), reviewing content, designing changes, developing an entirely new site in WordPress, migrating all member information, and the list goes on. Lauren did all this in her role as a volunteer on our BOD on top of her full-time job and …

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Emmanuelle has been an instrumental part this year in the planning and execution of our 2019 Student Scholarship Competition and our 2019 Student Project Competition. Her attention to detail, combined with her enthusiasm, makes her a pleasure to work with on this volunteer initiative!  – Sara Mastro, Pres/Director of Events Read more about Emmanuelle as our Director of Volunteers Alain Robillard-Bastein chatted with her to learn a bit about what brought her to UXPA and her experiences being a volunteer. Q. What motivated you to become a volunteer with us initially? A. In addition to being close to its community, UXPA is a bridge between universities and practitioners, which is very important for professionals. Being aware of new research and discoveries brings …

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