State of UX in Ohio: Human Tech Podcast
Adam Deardurff and I were guests on The Team W’s Human Tech podcast on March 27, 2024. Some of the things we talked about:
UX Game Night
I am excited to host another “UX Game Night”: playing games that embody UX concepts while also socializing with your UX peers. I am going to bring two kinds of games: traditional games and specially-made games. Useful UX Concepts Taught by Traditional Games Specific UX Games Should be fun!
Next Frontiers in UX
I presented Four ways to think about the “Next Frontier of UX” at the Greater Cleveland Partnership’s All in for Tech Day on October 10th. I used the 4 categories that evolved from my UX Spins roadshow to frame a discussion around emerging tech areas (with a focus on AI). UX as Impressions UX as …
October UX Calendar
September was a great month for UX across Ohio, with World Interaction Design Day events in Cincinnati and Columbus being the most prominent: Ohio was the only state in the USA with 2 events! October has a lot going on for UXers, more than changing leaves! The new Ohio UX Calendar lists the upcoming events by UX groups that …
Human-Centered AI in Ohio
I attended two InnovateOhio “AI Forums” the past month in order to listen to the conversations and start thinking about how UXers can foster a more humane artificial intelligence-driven economy/society in Ohio. If you are not familiar with InnovateOhio, its main goal is to build a platform that enables better interactions with state services for …
State of UX in Ohio
As the Ohio UX Roundtable, we want to support our community, improve our profession, and increase our impact on industry. We created a survey to help us understand more about UX professionals, educators and overall UX maturity across the state. Here are some of the survey questions for practitioners/managers: For educators, we ask about the …
Summer Ohio UX
Summer time means several “socials” across the state, but also starting to plan for the fall. What we already know about for the Ohio UX community in the fall: October 9-13, Cincinnati Design Week. The fall events we are planning during the monthly Zoom hangouts:
April OhioUX News
What’s coming up for UX practitioners and professionals in Ohio, April 2023 edition. Our next meeting of the OhioX UX Roundtable is on Friday the 14th at noon. NEW are Eventbrite events for our 2nd-Friday-monthly-hangouts that you can RSVP for to get reminders of the ones you can make while not getting pestered by me …
UX Roundtable 2023
We officially kicked-off the OhioX User Experience Roundtable in August. We have a group of UX practitioners hanging out each month and working in teams to advance the profession and serve OhioX. As an OhioX Roundtable, we are “pros connecting with pros”: where UX professionals convene across the state. More than that, we want to …
UXPA K-12 & Ohio Tech Day
Today (September 30, 2022) was the second annual Ohio Tech Day, a day of events inspiring the next generation of Ohio’s technology and innovation leaders (that is, K-12 students). As the UX Roundtable, we produced a video about UX Careers that debuted today on OhioTechDay TV. By coincidence, today I was also part of a …