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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:

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SIGCHI Executive Committee

I am excited to be back on the SIGCHI Executive Committee along with several other new people to the team. Time to give back to the HCI discipline, connect it with UX professionals in industry, and help the next generation. See April 18: New to the SIGCHI EC by Neha Kumar (Medium) for details. My …

Preventing the Future, session for 24 Hours of UX

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 …

Connecting UX Academia & Industry

I am doing a new presentation of very old stuff for the UX@UM conference on Saturday, April 1. My talk’s title is “History of Connecting UX Academia and Industry“. I have called this “User Experience Research-Practice Interaction” (UXRPI) and “Industry-Academic Collaboration in UX” in the past. UX@UM is a conference at the University of Michigan, …

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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 …

Learning Experience Design Podcast

I was recently on the Learning Experience Design: In the Trenches podcast with Michael Vanderpool and Eric Ward to talk about User Experience. I used my 4 aspects of UX that evolved from my UX Spins presentations to guide the discussion. Impressions people form as they interact with technology Activities you can do to define, …

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Kicking Off the UX Roundtable

On August 12th, we kicked off the OhioX User Experience Roundtable. (See my category of posts about OhioX for background.) Watch the recording of the webinar. (Edited to 40 minutes.) Fill out the feedback and volunteer form. Tell us what you thought and how you want to be involved. What happened at the kickoff We …

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Ohio UX Roundtable Kickoff

A few years in the making, we are kicking off the OhioX User Experience Roundtable on August 12 at noon (on Zoom). Join us to help make Ohio a humane tech hub. It started in 2019, when I learned about the plans for OhioX, a new organization representing and connecting those committed to growing Ohio’s …