Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, with locations in more than 130 countries, SAP AG is the world leader in enterprise software and software-related services. Explore our 42 year history of innovation and access late breaking company news, financial and investor information, career opportunities, and more.
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Only Adobe gives everyone — from emerging artists to global brands — everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences.
At General Assembly, we are creating a global community of individuals empowered to pursue work they love, by offering full-time immersive programs, long-form courses, and classes and workshops on the most relevant skills of the 21st century – from web development and user experience design, to business fundamentals, to data science, to product management and digital marketing.
We create experiences that transform brands, grow businesses and make people’s lives better.
ATTCK values fairness, diversity, and equality. We think technology should benefit everyone. And we want to build relationships with clients who feel the same way we do.
PRIMER shines a spotlight on the critical topics of a likely and possible future that demand a design response now. It aims to inspire thinkers and makers to use futures design thinking as a method to develop new agendas for communities, businesses, and governments to strategize and align themselves economically and sustainably for the future as it arrives.
Create Your Life’s Work. Workspaces, Community, and Services for a global network of creators.
Loop11 is the only way to get quantitative usability metrics…affordably. It’s the SurveyMonkey of usability testing. A self-serve, browser-based solution for usability professionals, web managers and web designers to create their own online, usability testing projects to get the metrics needed to optimize website usability.
We connect people interested in designing better user experiences with the best expertise available—in the formats that make the most sense, and in ways that demonstrate the value of UX.
ACM NY is a non-profit professional group that meets regularly to discuss diverse topics in computer science such as user experience, user research, data visualization, predictive analytics, applied machine learning, statistical modeling, open data, and artificial neural networks. Meeting topics are varied and range from tutorials on basic concepts and their applications, to success stories from local practitioners and academic students, to discussions of tools, new technologies, and best practices. All are welcome to attend, to meet others, and to present their work.
Balsamiq is the maker of the industry-leading rapid wireframing software that combines the simplicity of paper sketching with the power of a digital tool so that teams can focus on what’s important. Balsamiq is a small and personable company that competes on usability and customer service. Balsamiq believes work should be fun, and that life is too short for bad software.
BayCHI serves the entire San Francisco Bay Area, with meetings held from San Rafael to Berkeley, from San Francisco to San Jose. The monthly program meeting is held in Palo Alto.
BayCHI is the local San Francisco Bay Area chapter of ACM SIGCHI.
BayCHI is organized and operated exclusively for educational and scientific purposes in the area of Computer-Human Interaction.
Its services include the following:
Our affiliation with the master’s program in Human Factors in Information Design provides the center with unique access to internationally-recognized experts and the latest research in the fields of user experience, design, human factors, usability, marketing, and business. Our affiliation with the Graduate School of Business keeps us focused on achieving the business goals of our clients. Located on the beautiful Bentley University campus, the UXC is less than 30 minutes from downtown Boston.
We are a network of people making government work for the people, by the people, in the 21st century. How do we get there? Government services that are simple, effective, and easy to use, working at scale to build healthy, prosperous, and safe communities.
Columbia University’s Master of Science in Information and Knowledge Strategy (IKNS) is for individuals who are invested in the strategic potential of information management and collaboration. Graduates go on to become knowledge and analytics leaders, consultants, and entrepreneurs of digital products.
A place for UX designers, product managers, developers, executives and all around tech folk to discuss innovations in User Experience in Enterprise software
EventBrowse.com aggregates data from various platforms, venue websites, and other sources to create a relevant database of upcoming networking events.
French-speaking association of professionals of the user experience. Flupa is a local chapter of the User Experience Professionals Association (UxPA) that supports researchers and professionals of the user experience and has more than 50 local chapters across the world. Flupa brings together communities of professionals and researchers from engineering, humanities, marketing and design to share their practices and promote the user experience (UX).
We are a community of up-and-coming designers and developers passionate about improving our craft. We have a lot of fun together and always learn from each other. Our events include monthly happy hours, workshops on design, education events and more!
WE ARE A DIGITAL TALENT AGENCY RE-INVENTING THE WAY TALENT AND COMPANIES COME TOGETHER TO DO GREAT WORK
Human Factors International (HFI) is the world’s largest company specializing in user experience (UX) design. Our focus is unique in helping clients develop mature and effective UX practices. We provide a complete and seamless suite of advisory, training, certification, methods, standards, and tools to help you institutionalize user (customer) centricity. Our design projects ensure an unbroken golden thread, from executive intent, through digital strategy and innovation, to structural and detailed design and validation, including metrics-based improvements. Beyond ensuring that users can efficiently use your offerings, we apply persuasive engineering methods to influence your customers to use digital channels, engage, and convert.
Illinois Institute of Technology is a private, technology-focused research university offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering, science, architecture, business, design, human sciences, applied technology, and law.
We invite Industry experts We bring in influential speakers to speak about various topics related to startups, and our events also offer great networking opportunities.
They spend an evening with Igniters. Past topics include growth hacking, product building, pitching, legal, finance, community building, networking, innovation, UX, UI, design, marketing, sales, PR, and more!
Online UX design courses by experts. At a low, nonprofit-level fee.
Since 2008 IxDA Berlin is gathering interaction designers and all interested friends and fellows to talk about the emerging questions of todays interactive design space. At our regular meetings we are happy to welcome well known international speakers as well as hosting discussions and talks by the protagonists of Berlin’s own fast growing Interaction Design community. With members coming from all corners of the industry we never leave out an opportunity to broaden our horizon beyond the established design topics.
The IxDA New York City local group organizes monthly presentations and workshops for people interested in interaction design. Our events gather together a vibrant community of professionals who design interactive systems, services and products of all kinds: web, desktop, enterprise, mobile, consumer electronics, digitally-enhanced environments, and more.
IxDA San Francisco is the SF local group of the Interaction Design Association. The IxDA is a member-supported organization committed to serving the needs of the international interaction design community.
The IxDA (Interaction Design Association) Singapore group aims to support interaction design professionals or anyone in the relevant field to find opportunities, network and socialize with your professional peers. We’d like to foster a community where meaningful exchange of ideas and knowledge can take place. We welcome any businesses/companies which are either practicing the IxD discipline or are seeking professionals in the field to join us in the goal of making better products and services for users.
IxDA Taiwan is a local group of the Interaction Design Association. The IxDA is a member-supported organization committed to serving the needs of the international interaction design community.
All-in-one Prototyping Tool for web and mobile apps. Define awesome experiences through wireframes & prototypes
Los Angeles is home to one of the largest volunteer-run User Experience (UX) professional development organization in the world. The Los Angeles User Experience Meetup has more than 3,000 members. Since the organization was founded on April 21, 2007 by Lynn Boyden, Chris Chandler, Craig Nakano and Weston Thompson, over 50 events have been held for User Experience Designers, Information Architects, Interaction Designers, UX Researchers, Usability Analysts and Engineers and others interested in UX-related topics.
Learning from a community of design leaders
Leading Design is a conference for people leading design teams, overseeing design direction, or instilling a culture of design within their organizations. The conference features two days of stimulating talks followed by one day of interactive workshops.
NYC – CHI sporadically holds UX-focused events and has an active mailing list of over 1900 members to service New York area information architects, interaction designers, user experience designers, service designers, product and museum experience designers, usability practitioners, digital librarians, user interface designers and UI developers.
ITP is a two-year graduate program located in the Tisch School of the Arts whose mission is to explore the imaginative use of communications technologies — how they might augment, improve, and bring delight and art into people’s lives. Perhaps the best way to describe us is as a Center for the Recently Possible.
We’ve created a suite of usability tools that help improve your website navigation, define information architecture, understand first-clicks, capture qualitative research, and more.
The mission of Pratt Institute is to educate artists and creative professionals to be responsible contributors to society. Pratt seeks to instill in all graduates aesthetic judgment, professional knowledge, collaborative skills, and technical expertise. With a firm grounding in the liberal arts and sciences, a Pratt education blends theory with creative application in preparing graduates to become leaders in their professions. Pratt enrolls a diverse group of highly talented and dedicated students, challenging them to achieve their full potential.
Prototypes that feel real.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a leading national research university and the state of New Jersey’s preeminent, comprehensive public institution of higher education. Established in 1766, the university is the eighth oldest higher education institution in the United States. Nearly 69,000 students and 22,000 full- and part-time faculty and staff learn, work, and serve the public at Rutgers locations across New Jersey and around the world.
A meetup for all those awesome people in the valley who understands that design is about solving problems.
The mission of the San Francisco chapter is to: Promote the arts and sciences of technical communication in the San Francisco Bay Area. Promote career development in the technical communication profession for our members, other colleagues, and students of technical communication. Promote respect, increased public awareness, and appreciation of the technical communication profession.
SoDA serves as a network and voice for entrepreneurs and innovators around the globe who are creating the future of marketing and digital experiences.
Speculative Futures is a Meetup group in San Francisco that focuses on Speculative, Critical, Discursive, Fiction, and Futures Design. We also organize the Primer conference.
From a group of academic pioneers in 1868 to the Free Speech Movement in 1964, Berkeley is a place where the brightest minds from across the globe come together to explore, ask questions and improve the world.
The UC Berkeley School of Information is committed to expanding access to information and improving its usability, reliability, and credibility while preserving security and privacy. The I School offers two professional master’s degrees and an academic doctoral degree. Our MIMS program trains leaders who work at the intersection between technology, information, and people. Our MIDS program trains data scientists to solve real-world problems using complex and unstructured data, in a high-touch virtual degree. Our Ph.D. program equips scholars to develop solutions and shape policies that influence how people seek, use, and share information.
The Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation is UC Berkeley’s interdisciplinary hub for learning and making at the intersection of design and technology. We see design and technological innovation as integrally linked: innovation opens possibilities and extends the reach of design, while design links new technologies with human experiences and ensures that innovation truly benefits people and communities. Bringing together technical depth, design methodology, and a focus on societal impact, we aim to educate students who understand both the under-the-hood details that make something work and the big-picture context that makes something matter.
At the Jacobs Institute, technological breakthroughs commingle with Berkeley’s deep academic strengths and consistent focus on social good, uniquely equipping students to tackle the pressing challenges of today and tomorrow. From our home in Berkeley’s College of Engineering, we extend broadly across campus, serving as a welcoming hub: here, engineers, artists, and makers of all kinds can gather and collaborate. In a space designed to mix students of different disciplines, expertise levels, and modes of engagement, we provide a range of opportunities for hands-on, team-based learning, from courses to independent tinkering and co-curricular offerings.
Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, College of Engineering, UC Berkeley
There are scores of inspirational UX Designers out there who are doing outstanding, innovative work and helping to shape the future in their struggle to solve important design problems while fighting for the user. In our highly accelerating world of technology, wearables, and the connected life, there’s never been a better time to be a great UX Designer. For those more recently diving in and gaining experience, it can be quite daunting to stay inspired and enlightened in this ever-changing/evolving landscape. This podcast is aimed at highlighting those leading the way in their craft by diving deeper into who they are, and what makes them tick/successful, in order to inspire and equip those aspiring to do the same.
UserZoom enables UX agility for the modern enterprise
Our cloud-based solution gives customers the ability to scale their User Experience research, rapidly test usability, and measure their customer’s experience on web and mobile properties. We connect Enterprise businesses with their exact target market and empower them to conduct agile usability testing, collect real-world behavioral analytics and other UX related research. Thanks to our platform and services, our customers make more intelligent, data-driven product decisions.
With offices in 4 different countries, the company continues to grow and to develop new products and services, making UserZoom the #1 UX research solution in the market.
Let’s pick a book, read it, get together for some hearty UX discussions.
Usually, we read the whole book unless it’s really long and then we just do specific chapters. The most important thing is to contribute to the discussion. Even if you didn’t finish the book, come and join the discussion.
On-demand video training covering every aspect of User Experience Design
The UX + Data will be exploring how to make data easily accessible, how to make data compelling, and how to leverage data in your UX process.
UX Mastery is an online resource for aspiring user experience designers. Through our free articles, ebooks, in-person workshops, community projects, and a vibrant community of eager volunteers, we’ve helped thousands of people get started in UX and get better.
The DC chapter of the User Experience Professionals’ Association is a highly active local community of individuals interested in usability, user experience design, interaction design, and their many related fields.
UXPA is the global professional association of User Experience (UX) practitioners and students.
We seek to bring together professionals from the marketing, design, technology and research communities so that we may share our collective experiences and create a forum for learning and professional growth. We encourage you to join us at our monthly events, which are open to members and non-members.
The hub of disruption and digital transformation, where the future will be revealed. Watch the greatest minds in business face off against the chance to reveal the new dimension of business. Follow SMASH and stay current with visionary ideas, game-changing technologies, new business models and strategies for the future.
The Unique Consumer Digital Experience Summit. Meet industry experts, professionals, academics, students and school kids as they try to help the society by creating delightful experiences
Designers, start-up companies, product managers, doc writers, UX students and anyone else interested in creating great user experiences. We create opportunities for usability testing that are fun, accessible, and useful.
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