News & Updates

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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Earlier this year, UXPA International rolled out a Mentorship Program matching those who wanted some professional guidance with industry professionals who have worked in UX for five or more years. The first round ran from March-April, and it was a resounding success. 111 mentees were matched with 83 mentors, and some of those relationships have continued beyond the program! While the program was a success, we still wanted to improve. We examined survey results, debriefed with some mentors and mentees, and we chatted with other orgs who host mentorship programs. As a result, we are proud to announce the next round of the UXPA Mentorship Program! In this round:  There will be 3 tiers. Mentorship – the most guidance (meet to discuss …

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UXPA seeks volunteers for the following positions. If you are interested, send your resume and project samples to alain.robillard-bastien@uxpa.org. Resident bloggers for the UXPA blog and more! Social media marketers to create content and create a regular publishing schedule for our social platforms. Social media marketer to monitor and report activity across our social platforms. Graphic designers to create marketing materials. Book reviewers for upcoming 2019 issues of User Experience Magazine. These are volunteer positions with a 1-year term.