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 about 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.
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? Sha-Lene Pung spoke to UX in ATX to explore how to develop your personal brand on LinkedIn and other social media. Sha-Lene presented 10 simple steps that professionals can…
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, walked through auto-layout and its ability to provide consistency, flexibility, and a guideline for future work.Topics:
Developing both the depth and breadth of your skills is essential to becoming an effective collaborator and influential designer. Do you want to learn how identifying individual skill clusters could not only advance your career but also promote effective teams? Andreina Dyer led this workshop with golden nuggets of information on how individuals, managers, and…
Agile frameworks are often used in industries that employ UX Designers, but design bootcamps can be light on information. Learn how UX and agile work together through the experiences of veteran designers. Hear from, Mike Gallers, a staff UX Designer, with 20 years of experience doing UX for companies large and small. He has worked…
How UX designers can have better working relationship with engineers UX designers rarely work in isolation. They are part of a larger team, making products for our end users. In July 2022, we looked at how designers can improve their working relationship with developers and engineers. We invited a group of developers for a panel…
Back by popular demand, UX in ATX is hosting another night of short UX Talks. The topic: Product Management.Our three guest speakers presented on different aspects of where UX and Product Management meet.
The need for designers who specialize in accessibility has grown in demand as companies realize that inclusive design is the right thing to do and that accessible digital products outperform competitors by 50 percent.That’s because inclusive products benefit everyone not just the roughly one billion people considered disabled worldwide. In this meetup, we discussed what…
On Thursday, April 28, 2022, UX in ATX hosted a fireside chat with Tanya Harris, Senior Content Strategist at eBay, about content design and how UX intersects with this discipline. Tanya is passionate about the words we see. When we open our apps, go to a website, use internal tools at work, or receive an…
No more of that awkward standing around. Learn how to make networking work for you at conferences. Panelists included Career Coach Juliet Barrett, who focuses on helping creatives develop process strategies, tools for self-evaluation and streamlined practices that break down large goals into actionable steps, and Focal Point Business Coach Chris Gay.
In February 2022, UX in ATX hosted a portfolio review with 10 expert reviewers. Prior to breaking out into smaller groups for these reviews, UX in ATX organizer provided some general portfolio tips for UX designers.
Are you ready to tackle your professional goals in the new year?UX in ATX co-founder and Standard Beagle Creative Director Cindy Brummer hosted a goal-setting workshop to kick off the year with a bang. In this workshop, Cindy guided us through the reflection and vision-setting tools she has been using successfully for herself and her…
Conversational Design is the fastest growing UX need in the market today, and there aren’t enough Conversation Designers to cover the needs. This makes this skillset one of the strongest designers can currently possess, as it is an applicant’s market.
More and more employers are posting openings for UX designers — often with 3 or more years of experience. This makes the job hunt frustrating for junior designers in need of a foot in the door, and employers could be missing out on talent eager to grow and learn. At the same time, employers may…
On June 24, 2021, UX in ATX hosted a paneled discussion on how to create a space at work where everyone can feel safe, accepted, and heard. The topics included: Speakers:Ron Infante – IxD at FrogRich Le – Product Design and Web Design ConsultantCandace Anderson – UX Design & Graphic DesignerCarla Anderson – Creative DirectorTony…