Friday, June 25, 2010

IxDA Los Angeles


I got involved as an organizer with the local chapter of the Interaction Design Association in January of 2008. While there was already a UX group in LA, it was difficult to maintain frequent enough meetings. 60 days between meetings can be enough for people to loose interest. We decided to alternate meetings each month between LA UX MeetUp and IxDA. So members have an industry event every month. This is valuable when you are looking for a job, but also to maintain active participation.

The Los Angeles chapter holds meetings on various UX topics which are lead by the organizers or when possible we bring in a well known expert. We talk with the community to see what they want to talk about for upcoming meetings and try to keep the management as open as possible. This has encouraged individuals to step up and have their time in the lime-light on a topic that may be near and dear to them.

My goal in being involved with these groups is to empower individuals. With the constant struggles we face day to day in our offices to sell design, we need all the support we can get.

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