When I accepted the position of president for 2014, I could never have guessed what this year had in store for the organization. It has been quite a year: a year with some surprises and a number of changes as we assessed how and where ...
In early November 2010, I was finishing up my first year as the president of the UXPA DC chapter and was in San Antonio on a separate user research project with the then UXPA DC VP, Jen Romano Bergstrom. One evening, after the research had ...
Engage with us: It goes without saying that we at UXPA want to engage with you – to engage at an international level, and, wherever our chapters exist, at a chapter level as well. Both UXPA International and our UXPA chapters have a lot to ...
UXPA has meant a lot to me and has been a professional home to me for the past ten years, first at a local chapter level, and shortly after, at the international level as well. I am very much looking forward to leading UXPA this ...
While at the User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA) International conference last month in Washington, D.C., I spent a lot of time talking with attendees. I heard all sort of interesting things there, but one simple comment resonated with me: as an attendee looked around the ...
I wrote in my prior blog post about my Ignite experience at UXPA 2013. While I really enjoyed the Ignite presentation, I also had fun teaching a full-day tutorial: “Usability in a Day: Everything That You Need to Know to Jump Start Your Career.” I ...
At the UXPA 2013 conference that took place three weeks ago here in DC, I got to do my first Ignite talk thanks to Jonathan Strohl and Jen Romano Bergstrom who pulled me into a Fors Marsh led session on research methods. What is Ignite? ...
Networking is critical regardless of what your career is. That said, by definition user experience is centered on understanding people: the people we design for, the people that participate in our research studies, and the people that ultimately use our end products. Give your UX ...
Back in 2008, although I had been involved in what was then UPA as a member who attended events, my only UX leadership role was in the workplace. Upon switching from being an employee to being a business owner in the middle of that year, ...
I have now entered my third year as the president of the Usability Professionals’ Association DC chapter (UPA-DC). I joined the board (as UPA-DC Secretary) in 2009 and in 2010 became chapter president, a role that I have held ever since. At the beginning of ...
