To inspire and help designers pursue, do, and succeed at what they love. We are building a strong, passionate community for current NYC designers either at startups or looking to join startups, to inspire, collaborate, and mentor each other. We'll have a mix of Speaker Sessions, Happy Hours, and other fun events to help you excel in your design career. Note: This group is for professional designers and is not open to entrepreneurs, engineers, design enthusiasts, or recruiters. Please do not appl …

DUMBO Designers is the group for enthusiastic designers of all kinds in DUMBO, NY. Follow on twitter @DUMBOdevs Support us on gittip.com: https://www.gittip.com/DUMBOdesigners/ Meetups: Currently hosting a monthly lunch and talks about design in DUMBO, NYC. PLEASE NO JOB POSTINGS Also, don't contact other members about jobs unless they've contacted you first, or that's a chop.

Designers + Geeks is a popular monthly event that brings together designers, developers, artists, and geeks of all types. Born in San Francisco, we're extending to New York to continue the fun.

Making Android apps more beautiful. This is a group for professional, novice and aspiring Android app designers.

Huge Events are open to anyone who has interest in agency life, graphic design, visual design, basically all things design and more. Join us for a fun evening of refreshments, networking and talks by design professionals and leaders in the industry.

This is a group for us Designers and Developers in between Hartford and Providence to get together and learn new things. We discuss both design and development topics. We have an open format, and thrive on participation, so bring something to share. We will also have time set aside to network as well. Share news stories, new techniques or just something that inspired you.

Hello information designers. This group will discuss the evolution of information design, particularly as it relates to graphic design, user experience and communications. We'll do this by showcasing some amazing work from NYC based information designers. We'd love to get your input for ideas as well!

It's Tech@NYU's monthly party! At each DemoDay, Tech@NYU members and other NYC students will demo what they've been working on for the last month in the areas of programming and design. It's a monthly celebration, where Tech@NYU opens it doors to show off what we've been doing. NYC students - if you'd like to demo your latest hack, project, or pre-funding startup, please contact one of the organizers. Past demos have included: A Javascript library for calculus and statistics A remote control fo …

A gathering of all those interested in the discussion and study of signs, meaning systems, web science, thinking, language, and knowledge in digital and web spaces. Open to all disciplines: All interested individuals are welcome, including academics, philosophers, advertising professionals, communications professionals, independent researchers, computer scientists, digital anthropologists, linguists, designers, information architects, user experience, human interaction, developers, localization, …

A group to discuss digital user experience (UX) both on web and mobile platforms. Meetings could cover research or innovative real world examples & case studies Design topics can include (but not limited to) interaction design, UI design, mobile app design (iPhone, iPad, Android), usability, site stickiness, human-computer interaction, value of entertainment factor beyond core conversions, etc. From the data side of things we'd like to have discussions around using data to drive and measure UX …

Welcome to NYC-CHI, the NYC chapter of SIG-CHI (Special Interest Group - Computer Human Interaction www.sigchi.org/). We hold UX-focused events and have an active mailing list to service the NYC region. We have over 1900 active members in all aspects of HCI, including information architects, interaction designers, user experience designers, service designers, product and museum experience designers, usability practitioners, digital librarians, user interface designers and UI developers. We're t …

There's an incredible transformation taking place in Medicine right now, and this group is focused on the design, development and implementation of innovation -- technologic, systems and operational -- directly at healthcare professionals.  And we want to create a community that is in the lead! The current roles and responsibilities, interdependencies and ways of working  between physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals are being challenged and there will need to be car …

This is a meeting place and professional development network for user experience professionals (including information architects, usability professionals, interaction designers, visual designers, systems analysts, and business analysts) in northern New Jersey. We're building interactions and content to help users get the results they want and need. You can log in using the blue "Log in" link at the top of the page. If you're new to the group and want to join, you can register using the "Sign u …

NYC UX Acrobatics primary focus is the varied facets of UX design, research and usability. Our aim is to create monthly 'UX themed' workshop style meetings where members work with each other learning, discovering and networking on all things UX. Potential topics: paper prototyping, experience maps, user research and testing, persona dev, a/b testing, front-end best practices, RWD (Responsive Web Design), PET Design (Persuasion, Emotion, and Trust Design), competitive analysis, sketching UX, cont …

Grab a wireframe, a color palette, and a cocktail glass to mix it up with local user-experience pros. The UX meetup is a casual monthly gathering to meet local designers, swap industry techniques and news, and celebrate the remarkable design talent in Providence. If you dig liquids, interaction design, information architecture, and usability, come join us!

Sweat Equity Shop is a group focused on web designers, mobile/web application developers, and interactive designers interested in working for primarily sweat equity. The goal is to introduce them to startup founders and business development teams to form meaningful relationships based on nothing more than the sweat of your brow and a restricted interest agreement. There appear to be very few resources in Silicon Alley where one can find people willing to work sans cash at the start, and this for …

Welcome to New York's first ExpressionEngine Meetup group. If you're already a developer, freelancer, or an agency working in EE, or if you're considering EE as your next CMS (content management system), this group is for you. ExpressionEngine (http://www.expressionengine.com) is a powerful, flexible, and easy-to-use CMS designed for both small personal websites to the largest of enterprise-level endeavors. With a superb support team and an active community of developers and designers, EE is n …

This is a place for all local IxDA professionals to talk and exchange thoughts and ideas. No matter if you’re just starting a career in Interaction Design (IxD) or you've been doing this for years, everyone is welcome. This is where you read about updates, ask for help or feedback on ideas and over time also will be able to search message archives for hopefully valuble info.

A connected group of Albany UX professionals, enthusiasts and students. Regular informal social meetups with varied topics (discussions, speakers).  If you are a user experience professional/enthusiast/student or are just looking to bring a better user experience to your application/site/product, we look forward to connecting with you. Topics include a broad range of practices/technologies that enable user-centric software and web experiences: AJAX, CSS3, Content Strategy, Human Computer Interac …

An opportunity for Product Managers, Strategists,etc., to come together to meet, interact, and network. The ideal environment within which sharing and learning can flourish and complement the knowledge base for all on a peer to peer basis.

Hi UXers! We've created this Meetup group to help get the word out about the UX Awards- www.UserExperienceAwards.com The UX Awards are the first Awards created to specifically celebrate and showcase examples of outstanding, game-changing UX. The annual UX Awards Event is also the biggest UX event of the season, and it's around the corner on Tuesday May 21, 2013 in NYC! Now in the third year, the User Experience Awards are the premiere Awards to showcase, celebrate, and raise understanding of exc …

Natural user interface (NUI) is about to take the world as the newest revolution in computing and devices. The next tech rock stars are the people developing NUI and the businesses they envision will be the next hot tech start-ups. We are those people that are changing the world and the way people interact and experience things through our projects, products, and start-ups. We use voice control, voice recognition, facial recognition, eye tracking, gesture, motion capture, emotional response, sen …

Keep practicing UX. Give and get feedback from other graduates of GA's User Experience Design course.

Tech Under Thirty is a new meetup group for designers & tech-oriented people under the age of thirty. If you’re a game developer, a web designer, a print designer, an engineer, blogger, or anything in between, you should definitely join us. No experience required! Our focuses include: Encouraging people in design & tech industries to meet and cross-pollinate ideas. Building a word-of-mouth network to make finding jobs & recommending qualified people easier. Enabling people to learn new skills i …

This meetup connects likeminded product managers, developers, designers for an hour and a half of usability testing. Just launched, about to launch, or working on a swanky new feature? Test Tube is open to companies who want to get great feedback on new product features. Fittingly described by PandoDaily as "Speed dating for Product Feedback" The Test Tube brings NYC companies together to both give - and get - feedback on each other's products. Over the course of an hour and a half you'll meet h …

The goals of the CT chapter of the User Experience Professionals' Association include to: 1. Provide a local network through which user experience professionals can share information about the techniques and methodologies in the profession. 2. Create an inclusive community for those interested in user experience, whether it is their primary focus or a related discipline. 3. Change new product development processes to include a concern for the people who use them by presenting the business case f …

UX School's mission is to help UX designers build their skills and portfolio, through hands-on workshops, one-on-one critiques, and lectures from leaders in the field.

Welcoming startup folks and professionals in UX, IA, product, design, etc. to be one another's usability testers as well as discuss UX trends, best practices, and strategies.