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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>User Experience Network</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /> </head> <body> <div id="top"> <div id="header"><div title="UXnet: user experience network" class="blogtitle"><a title="UXnet home" href="index.html">User Experience Network</a></div></div> </div> <div id="main"> <div id="content"> <div class="entry"> <div class="post" id="post-74"> <h1>Calendar</h1> <p>The UXnet calendar compiled a list of upcoming local events from the locales into a single listing. Major user experience-related conferences and training were also included. </p> <p>Some other calendars that are useful for finding user experience related events:<p> <ul> <li><a href="http://sigchi.org/conferences/">ACM SIGCHI conferences</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.siggraph.org/events">ACM SIGGRAPH Events</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/events">AIGA Events</a></li> <li><a href="http://sigs.aisnet.org/sighci/conferences.html">AIS SIGCHI Conferences/workshops</a></li> <li><a href="http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events">Boxes and Arrows Event Calendar</a></li> <li><a href="http://mycatalyze.org/Events/tabid/873/Default.aspx">Catalyze Events</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.cmprofessionals.org/events">CM Pros Events</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.core77.com/calendar/#events">Core77 Design events calendar</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.dmi.org/dmi/html/aboutdmi/calendar.htm">Design Management Institute Calendar</a></li> <li><a href="http://degraaff.org/hci/conference.html">HCI Index Events</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.hfes.org/web/HFESMeetings/meetings.html">HFES Meetings</a></li> <li><a href="http://iainstitute.org/calendar/">IA Institute Calendar</a></li> <li><a href="http://icisc.neasist.org/quickcalendar.html">ICISC Quick Calendar</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.icograda.org/web/calendar-events.shtml">Icograda Calendar</a></li> <li>IDSA <a href="http://www.idsa.org/events.htm">Events calendar</a> and <a href="http://www.idsa.org/absolutenm/templates/?a=114&z=27">Conferences & workshops</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.iiid.net/Upcomingevents.htm">IIID Upcoming events</a></li> <li><a href="http://informationdesign.org/archives/events/cat_user_experience.php">InfoDesign Events</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.interaction-design.org/calendar/">Interaction-Design.org calendar of conferences/events</a></li> <li><a href="http://ixda.org/topics.php?topic=events">IxDA topic: Events</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.johnnyholland.org/calendar/">Johnny Holland’s UX calendar</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.netdiver.net/events/">Netdiver: Design industry events</a></li> <li>STC <a href="http://stc.org/edu/sessionMaterials.asp">Annual conference</a> and <a href="http://stc.org/edu/relatedEvents01.asp">Related events</a></li> <li><a href="http://usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/index.html">UPA Conferences & events</a></li> <li>Upcoming.org Group: <a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/487/">Experience design</a>, <a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/2733/">Interaction design</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.usabilitynews.com/default.asp?c=3">Usability News Events</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div id="sidebar"> <div id="rsidebar"> <ul> <li><h2>Event types that were in the calendar</h2> <ul> <li>Conference: A major UX-related event that usually spans several days, has registration fees, and accepts submissions for several types of sessions (papers, panels, workshops, seminars, posters). Often draws participants from around the world.</li> <li>Annual association conference: The annual meeting of a professional association. Usually the largest conferences in terms of attendance, number of sessions and variety of topics.</li> <li>Training: A course, seminar, tutorial or other type of UX professional development. Typical: 1-day, well-known instructor, focused topic, several hundred dollars (US). Sometimes several days of training are strung together for a week-long event.</li> <li>Working group: A session where all attendees participate in order to share information and address a UX-related problem. Often there is some sort of (academic) publication that results from the working session.</li> <li>Local meeting: Usually a guest speaker on a UX-related topic, under 2 hours long, organized by a local group, and part of a regular program of events in that locale.</li> <li>Planning meeting: Local meetings to plan local organization activity, such as kicking off a local chapter or planning the activities for the year.</li> <li>Social: A local meeting where the purpose is to meet others and talk about user experience related topics. No guest speaker, often held at a bar.</li> <li>Book club: Discuss a UX related book - see uxbookclub.org for more information.</li> <li>Design jam: Design something during the event.</li> <li>Emergent: A gathering where the UX-related program emerges from the participants in an open and collaborative way. Often called a BarCamp or Unconference, using the Open Space methodology. Sometimes organized as a Pecha Kucha.</li> <li>Exhibition: Design shows and opening receptions for art exhibits.</li> <li>Online: Webcasts, conference calls and other online events about user experience.</li> </ul> </li> </ul></div> </div> </div> <div id="footer"> </div> <div id="footerbox"> <div class="footer"> </div></div> </body> </html>