These slides contain the UX conferences and continuing education opportunities mentioned in the January 2014 UX Speakeasy Meetup

2. 2014
Conferences
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7. Local
World IA Day (Los Angeles)
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February 15
LA (Location TBA)
UX Speakeasy Magic Bus
tinyurl.com/WIADLA2014
AIGA Y Conference
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Curiosity is the hunger to explore
March 14-15
USD
$400+
y-conference.com/y19
Happy New UX Year

8. Local
ValioCon
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A Conference for Designers & Makers
June 5-8
$699
Valiocon.com
UX Speakeasy Conference
– Fall
– Topics TBA based on your input
Happy New UX Year

9. Local
• IA Summit
Happy New UX Year

10. General
Convey UX
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“The Conference for What’s Next in UX”
February 5-7
Seattle
$1,195
www.conveyux.com
SXSW Interactive
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AKA The Shitshow
March 8-12
Austin
$895
sxsw.com/interactive
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12. General
Giant Conference (UX Woodstock)
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A Conference For People Who Create Rad Experiences
June 11-14
Charleston
$699+
giantconf.com
User Interface 19
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October 27-29
Boston
$ TBA
www.uie.com/events/
Happy New UX Year

13. Mobile
UX Mobile Immersion (UIE)
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Design for the User, Not the Device
April 7-9
Denver
$1389 (Early Bird)
uxim14.uie.com
Happy New UX Year

14. Web (ish)
Webvisions
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Multiple Dates
NYC, Portland, Chicago
$250+ (two day pass)
www.webvisionsevent.com
An Event Apart
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Multiple Dates
Hotlanta, Boston
$1095+
aneventapart.com/event/atlanta-2014
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16. HCI/HFE
CHI 2014
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April 26 - May 1
Toronto
$ Not Yet Announced
chi2014.acm.org
HFES
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Oct 27-31
Chicago
$200-$425
www.hfes.org/web/hfesmeetings/meetings
Happy New UX Year

17. Specialty
Lean UX NYC
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3 days, 35 speakers, and 25 workshops
April 10-12
Ummm…NYC
$395 (Earlybird)
leanuxnyc.co/nyc/
Confab (Content Strategy)
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“The biggest annual event for all things content strategy”
May 7-9
Minneapolis
$999+
confabevents.com/events/central
Happy New UX Year

18. Specialty
Design Research Conference
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Exploring Creative Balance
October
Chicago
$ Not yet Announced
drc.id.iit.edu
Happy New UX Year

19. Crossroads
Re:Design
– salon-style discussions with UX/UI industry leaders and your
peers.convergese.com
– April 28-29
– Brooklyn
– $495
– www.redesignconference.com
Converge
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The conference for everyone working with technology in creative ways.
May 1-4
Columbia, SC
$325+
convergese.com
Happy New UX Year

20. Crossroads
• Solid
– O'Reilly Solid Conference (conference about intersection of
physical/digital products)
– May 21-22
– San Francisco
– solidcon.com/solid2014
– $TBA
• XOXO
– xperimental festival celebrating independently produced art and
technology
– Septemberish
– Location: TBA
– $ TBA
– xoxofest.com
Happy New UX Year

21. Crossroads
• Blend Conference
– A generalist conference about user experience, design, and web
development.
– Sept (ish)
– Charlotte, NC
– $ TBA
– www.blendconf.com
• Brooklyn Beta
– “Our goal is to inspire you to make something you love, something that makes
a difference.”
– Octoberish
– Crooklyn
– $ TBA
– brooklynbeta.org
Happy New UX Year

22. Crossroads
• Big (D)esign
– four intense days of learning within the scope of Strategy, Mobile, User
Experience, Gaming, Code Development, Usability, and Film Design.
– October(ish)
– Dallas
– $ TBA
– bigdesignevents.com/conference
• INST-INT
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Interactive Installations conference from the people behind EYEO
October
Minneapolis
inst-int.com
$TBA
Happy New UX Year

23. Crossroads
• MuseumCamp 2014: Social Impact
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This year is on measuring social impact and ROI; applies beyond museums
Jul-Aug 2014
Santa Cruz
www.santacruzmah.org/museumcamp2014/
$150
Happy New UX Year

24. Education &
Training
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Focused skill training -> Broad/deep education
Free -> Significant investment
Do it yourself -> Get whipped into shape by others
Online -> Mixed media -> Hop a plane
Image courtesy of
samuiblue/FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Happy New UX Year

26. Free & not toooo spendy stuff
• Interaction Design Foundation
– Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction
– Online courses and other resources
• The UX Bookmark (books & videos)
– www.theuxbookmark.com/#container
• Lynda.com
– Free and for fee UX and design tutorials
• User Interface Engineering (UIE)
– Virtual Seminars. Single or packages
– Can purchase complete library access for a period
– UI18 On Demand archives
Happy New UX Year

27. Consulting firms will train you – not so cheap
• Cooper (UX Design & Consulting: SF)
– In person courses
– UX Boot Camp: 4 days, & do good at the same time!
• Adaptive Path (UX general: SF)
– UX Intensive: 4 day design workshop, global
– UX Week conference (Sept: SF)
• Neilsen Norman Group (UX research++: SV)
– Usability Week (SD in Feb: odd picture…)
– Usability Camp: 3 days
Happy New UX Year

28. Full blown courses proliferate – some free!
• Open2Study
– Global profs; Australia based; oodles of topics
– UX, dev’t, business, psych. Some self-paced
– Offers BA/BS degrees
• Udacity; Coursera
– MOOCs with a mission: equal access to education
– CS, engineering, business, HCI, design (Coursera)
– CS, mobile, web dev’t, business, SWE (Udacity)
• HackDesign
– Self-paced “experiment” for developers
Happy New UX Year

29. Full blown courses proliferate – some not
free!
• Online User Experience Institute
– Lots of UX courses. About $350 each
• Stanford design (“d”) school
– Go get a degree
– Or perhaps take a 90 minute crash course for pairs
• General Assembly (based NYC; branch in
LA)
– For profit training org; you go to “campus”
– Semester length, 1 day, hackathons & more
– Design, Web Dev’t, Business topics, other
Happy New UX Year

30. How do I find out more?
Links for everything we just discussed will be
posted on Lisa’s blog
(minus the pithy commentary):
The Interdisciplinary Computing Blog
computing4society.blogspot.com
Along with a post about the entire meetup this evening.
Replete with pithy commentary.
Happy New UX Year