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If you are interested in giving a 30 minute session or 5-10 minute lightning talk, fill out this form.

This 3 part Intro to User Experience course runs on Wednesday evenings: February 26th, March 5th and March 12th. The class times go from 7:00pm to 9:00pm each evening.

At its core, User Experience (UX) is defined as how someone feels about using a product, system, or service. Regardless of what we’re designing--a website, an Android app, or a toaster--we all strive to make our designs useful, easy to use, and enjoyable to use. But how exactly do we make something useful, easy to use, and enjoyable? How do we know if the target audience is having a good or bad experience? This class will arm you with the essential tips to find those answers.

This class is for anyone who makes (or wants to learn how to make) websites, mobile apps, or other software. If you’re a developer, a designer, a project manager, a content creator, or something else, you can integrate UX research and design into your practice.

By the end of this class, you’ll also learn tips and techniques to address the following:

Fundamental concepts of user experience design
How to find out who your users are
Creating user personas
Identifying usability problems and prioritizing solutions
How to design and run usability tests
Getting useful feedback from your users
Information Architecture and interaction design
Where UX fits with project management methodologies
And more!
This is a hands on course which will give you actionable tools to get started with user experience in your work day!

Your Teacher: Sarah Kahn, Senior UX Designer at Deutsche Bank

Register for the course and learn more at Meetup (http://www.meetup.com/Girl-Develop-It-RDU/events/160610012).

The Triangle UXPA is hosting a free talk with Everett on Tuesday, February 4. To attend, please register on the event page.

For more information on how to attend, submit, review, or sponsor the conference visit https://uxpa.org/event/uxpa-2014-conference

Registration is just $74 and $50 for students, which includes lunch & dinners all weekend at UNC Chapel Hill. Sign up at triangle.startupweekend.com.

EHRs, or Electronic Health Records, have overall been an improvement to the healthcare, but still cause medical errors. Recently, on NPR WAMU (DC) some leading experts sat down to discuss the challenges EHRs present:

http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2013-10-30/improving-electronic-health-records (click the "Listen" link at the top of the page for a great hour-long discussion). One of the guests is Ben Shneiderman, who is a usability author and expert at the University of Maryland.

The conference is October 23-24, 2013 at the Raleigh Convention Center in downtown Raleigh.

The discount code TRIANGLEUXPA will save you $100 on registration.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtIiJqXLNrE.