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USER EXPERIENCE NETWORK

This is an archive of information about the User Experience Network.

We want to save the pieces that have long-term value and will still help the
user experience community in the years ahead. If you have a suggestion for
something else to put in these archives, send us your thoughts via email:
archive at uxnet.org.

For many years, we syndicated a subset of content from Putting People First:
that blog, and its archives, is still around.

If you want to stay connected with other people who have volunteered for UXnet,
you can join a Google group to see what they are involved in and what might come
next.


ABOUT UXNET

We saw a bright future for user experience, where practitioners of different
backgrounds will know how to work well together to design complex products,
strategies, communications, and services. User Experience will be commonly
understood and accepted by designers as foundational to their work. And User
Experience will mature into a cross-disciplinary practice comprised of common
language, concepts, methods, and shared wisdom needed to enable collaboration.

UXnet provided access to people and knowledge across the user experience
community. We tried to provide the infrastructure, tools and information to
increase awareness and accelerate the growth and value of user experience.

Over the years, we supported a network of local ambassadors and other local
leaders, who promoted a cross-disciplinary view of UX and served their local UX
community in many different ways. "Think global, act local." We maintained a
calendar to help aggregate local meetings, conferences, training and other
events to help bridge the gaps across different aspects of UX. We worked with
different professional organizations to help them collaborate with other groups
(sometimes as simple as hosting a meeting at one association's conference to
help them connect with people from other associations). We also explored ways to
establish a "volunteer currency" for the UX community and how to build a UX
directory to act as the foundation for it.

We defined User Experience (abbreviated: UX) as the quality of experience a
person has when interacting with a specific design. This can range from a
specific artifact, such as a cup, toy or website, up to larger, integrated
experiences such as a museum or an airport.


LOCAL LEADERS

Volunteers are still working locally to support the user experience community in
different parts of the world. Here are some of the groups where UXnet local
leaders are still active:

 * Baltimore, Maryland, USA
 * Brighton, United Kingdom
 * Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
 * Cleveland, Ohio, USA
 * Curitiba, Brazil
 * Maine, United States
 * New York City, New York, USA
 * Oslo, Norway
 * Panama
 * Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
 * Recife, Brazil
 * Richmond, Virginia, USA
 * Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 * San Francisco (Bay area), California, USA
 * South Africa
 * Toronto, Ontario, Canada

This is not all of the local UX groups that were started by UXnet local
ambassadors but are still around. If you want to add something to the list, send
us details via email: archive at uxnet.org .

We also started a Medical Industry Group.


OTHER VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNTIES

There are many other places where you can volunteer your time to advance the
user experience community. Here are just a few that we recommend (with links to
their "how to volunteer" pages):

 * Local leadership: UX Book Club
 * Professional associations: SIGCHI, UPA, IAI, IxDA, HFES, ASIS&T, AIGA
 * UX content: UXmatters, The UX Workshop


 * BRIEF HISTORY OF UXNET
   
   * 2010: Disbanded
   * 2008 - 2009: Several attempts at a directory; some new local leaders join,
     many become inactive
   * 2007: Launched an organizations network; updated web site with a new
     calendar and more features for local ambassadors
   * 2006: Incorporated as a 501c(6) not-for-profit; about 100 local
     ambassadors; important collaborator for World Usability Day
   * 2005: Participated in the CHI 2005 Development Consortium; about 70 local
     ambassadors (see UXmatters); interactions special issue
   * 2004: Informal launch as group of volunteers that includes about 25 local
     ambassadors
   * 2001-2003: Various conversations at different conferences about the future
     of user experience


 * FINANCIAL SUPPORTERS OVER THE YEARS
   
   * Apogee
   * Shopzilla.com
   * Involution Studios
   * Redish & Associates
   * Rosenfeld Media
   * Keith Instone
   * Beth Mazur
   
   Of course, lots of people volunteered their time to UXnet over the years as
   well.


 * LOCAL CHAPTERS
   
   If there is not a local cross-disciplinary user experience group near you,
   there may be a local chapter of a professional association that you can join
   to connect with UX colleagues.
   
   * ACM SIGCHI (Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction)
   * UPA (Usability Professionals’ Association)
   * IAI (Information Architecture Institute)
   * IxDA (Interaction Design Association)
   * STC (Society for Technical Communication)
   * HFES (Human Factors and Ergonomics Society)
   * AIS (Association for Information Systems)
   * ASIS&T (American Society for Information Science and Technology)
   * AIGA (The professional association for design)
   * ACM SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive
     Techniques)
   * IDSA (Industrial Designers Society of America)
   * IIBA (International Institute of Business Analysis)
   * AMA (American Marketing Association)
   * ACM chapters (Association for Computing Machinery)