Figma Workshop: How to use auto-layout

Learning a new tool such as auto-layout can be confusing or challenging for many designers, but Figma offers some extremely powerful and useful mechanics that can drastically improve your designs. In this session, our Figma expert, Nathan Flores, will begin by walking through auto-layout and its ability to provide consistency, flexibility, and a guideline for...

How to Rock Your Personal Brand on Social Media

New Year, New You! Struggling to solidify your personal brand identity?  LinkedIn profile not capturing the sparkle you could bring to a new project or team? See the UX in ATX recap with special guest: Sha-Lene Pung who discusses how to develop your personal brand on LinkedIn and other social media. Sha-Lene presents 10 simple...

UX in ATX Armadillo Den Happy Hour

Attention UX in ATX resident Austinites! Join us for an in-person happy hour at Armadillo Den on Friday, February 3rd from 5:00-7:00pm. Grab a frozen drink from the bar, munch on a snack from one of the food trucks, and come socialize with other amazing Austin-based UX peeps so we can meet each other IRL...

Making your Usability Studies Accessible

You want to include participants with disabilities in your usability studies, but where do you start? UX in ATX invited presenter Erica Braverman to speak on how to bring accessibility into all stages of planning and running a usability study, and the skills you can use to develop accessible studies for your own research needs.

UX Designers and Researchers Meet Up

* This is an official SXSW event and requires a badge. This meetup will allow user experience professionals from around the globe to network and meet with each other, exchange ideas, and plan future collaboration. Hosted by UX in ATX, this meetup is intended to create a community of UX practitioners attending SXSW through in-person...

Creative Burnout – Ignite Your Spark!

Feeling stuck lately, as if your gas tank of internal creative resources has landed on empty? That’s creative burnout, and it’s a signpost telling us that it’s time to grow. Join UX in ATX and Coach Steph online as she teaches us how we can combat our burnout and turn it into an opportunity to...

Escaping the Bad Design Echo Chamber: 4 Easy Steps

Just because you saw it on the internet, doesn’t mean it’s good design. Many of today’s UX designers are new to the field, self taught, or straight out of boot camp. Others of us are overtaxed with projects or leashed by short timelines for deliverables. In cases like this, we look online for existing work...

Breathing Life into Your Prototypes with Figma Microinteractions

As (UX) designers, we strive to create intuitive, delightful, and memorable user experiences. Microinteractions, the small yet impactful moments that occur during user interactions, play a crucial role in shaping these experiences. In this session, you’ll discover: Speaker: Vaishnavi Dwivedi

UX in ATX Happy Hour

Join fellow UX in ATX members at Central Machine Works in Austin for good times. (Rescheduled from April) Central Machine Works is dog and (kid) friendly. Find the brewery at: 4824 EAST CESAR CHAVEZ STREET AUSTIN, TX, 78702. Their parking lot is located on E. 5th St. (across from Justine’s Brasserie) and there is some...

UX Frontiers: Artificial Intelligence in Design

UX in ATX presents a day filled of expert presentations on a topic many UX practitioners want to know about -- Artificial Intelligence. Join us June 22 from 10-3pm CT for the first UX Frontiers conference, from UX in ATX.

Networking for Gold

How your network can help you get noticed and get hired:Are you sending out resume after resume but have not gotten any responses? Are you stuck in a dead-end job and don’t know how to get the job you long for? A robust network can help you build meaningful connections, leading to hidden job opportunities,...

Design Thinking for Career Progression

UX leader Sarah Alme will share a host of tools and tactics to evaluate the current state of your career, recognize your superpowers, and identify a potential career progression by leveraging Design Thinking methodologies.