The Los Angeles "meeting of the UX families" happened last night at Pete's in DTLA. We had representatives from the LA - Usability Professionals' Association Chapter, IxDA Los Angeles, The UX Book Club and our trusted leadership from the LA UX Meetup Group. It was a great night of planning out our respective group's activities and floating ideas about what we would like to have happen as a community.
Some of the more fundamental issues we dealt with were the overlapping of group agendas, and in some cases, redundancy in programming. We managed to come up with some really great ideas for events, and somehow work out a tentative calendar for the first-half of 2011.
Some of the topics that were floated were as follows:- A UX Debate: An event that would be in the debate format
- User Experience and Movies: Exploring the intersection between film-making, digital technology and user experience.
- Artificial Intelligence and User Experience: With rapidly evolving technology, where does User Experience fit into the self-actualized system?
- P.E.T. Design and Application: What is designing for P.E.T. or Persuasion, Emotion, and Trust?
- Prototyping: The 2011 Refresher and evolved methods of...
- Eye-tracking
Some of the established events for the first part of the year include:- A tentative meet up at Coloft in Santa Monica on January 25th, where the topic will be eye-tracking. (*See the LA UX Meetup Group page for the latest information on schedules.)
- Hopefully we can keep the IxDA meeting on in February
- Interaction Conference Recap, first week of March.
- Schedule of all combined UX meeting should be the last Tuesday of every month.
This was from my personal notes for the meeting, so if there's anything incorrect here, please feel free to email me any corrections.
