SF Creative Coders is a meetup every few weeks to bring our local community of hackers, designers & creative technologists together to share experiences and build new friendships here in the Bay Area. The goal is to get outside and meet fellow coders while enjoying the amazing beauty that is San Francisco. Our conversations tend to center around the intersection of human / computer interaction, emerging technologies, and interface design. If you are interested in the above, passionate about UI/U …

The International Multilingual User Group has been a forum for GILT* professionals and language technology users since 1987. We meet regularly in Silicon Valley. Read on...

Bringing designers + geeks together to talk shop, startups, and do some knowledge sharing. All types of designers + geeks welcome. Designers + Geeks Newsletter All Designers + Geeks events, news, and giveaways are announced through our newsletter. You can subscribe to it here: Join The Designers + Geeks Newsletter We hate spam, and will only use your contact info for Designers + Geeks news. Connect with us on Twitter & Facebook: @DesignersGeeks Facebook Page

Meet with other web site system administrators, developers, designers and business people who're interested in making their sites work fast to get better user experience, lower abandonment rates and more money.

Samsung's bada is a new smartphone platform that allows developers to create feature-rich applications that elevate the user experience in mobile spaces. Long story short, Samsung is aiming to bring the smartphone experience to every mobile phone user in the world with a robust, feature-rich, yet affordable mobile platform. With over 1M Samsung bada powered units sold worldwide in just 4 weeks, Samsung's Bada mobile initiative is off to a great start!

We welcome anyone interested in social gaming on mobile (Android & iOS). Whether you love to play the games or sit in your garage and write code to create these games, we'd love to have you join us! Majority of our events cater to developers and helping them socialize, monetize, and increase users for their games. Our topics will range from discussing gamification of games, current games and technology, and analyzing market trends. Its a great causal place to network and pick up some interesting …

Let's get together in San Jose to share our experiences and advice as UX designers! The only way to get better, and take over the world, is to learn from each other!

Are you a professional in a web-related field? A Tibet supporter? Interested in helping to make change happen? This group is for professionals working in web-related fields who support the Tibetan people's cause and want to help by contributing their ideas, skills and energy in a collaborative, stimulating atmosphere with like-minded people. We would like to form a think-tank of talented people from multiple disciplines to creatively explore how web 2.0, digital video and social media can be us …

The Design Thinking Meetup  Group is a collection of individuals who understand the importance of culture and design, and the role both play in the world of technology and business. We are passionate about mixing anthropology with economics, psychology with design, cultural observation with implementation, humanity with consumerism, and other clever concoctions. We meet to learn about human-centered design and put human-centered design to work by volunteering for non-profit and charity organizat …

Game developers today live in a challenging climate: gaming has never been a more crowded space than it is now. In this environment, how do you attract users, differentiate your game from competitors, and still make enough money to keep the lights on? Existing methods of game monetization are starting to get stale.  Virtual goods have become a commodity, in-game advertising intrudes on the user experience, and level packs require continuous time investment to create new content. Game developers …

This group is for Games User Researchers or those that are interested in Games User Research in the San Francisco Bay Area.  In addition to keeping in touch on the Games User Research group on LinkedIn, we sought a need to organize face-to-face meetups to further build our community and facilitate the exchanges information and ideas.

Public transit has the potential to be awesome, moving us around our city quickly and easily. But sometimes it really sucks. Buses are never on time, routes can be unfamiliar, and connections are difficult. On the other hand, taxis are too expensive, hard to find and there is no easy way to share a ride with other users. The latest evolutions in transportation provide enough data to plan and develop new mobile apps, where no operative intervention of dispatchers (or other external agents) is req …

With technologies such as Google Prediction API and mahout, it should now be easier to add for your website users: recommendations, separate ham from spam, and predict what newsletter content they will not consider spam. Let's explore and discuss these new technologies together and how we can use and efficienly implement/deploy them in our websites/projects/communities. Other applications of prediction/classification/clustering/collaborative filtering that I haven't thought of are welcome!

This is a community of mobile product managers, UX researchers, developers, and designers who meet to share our experiences with the process, challenges, and joys (!) of developing mobile products (apps and mobile web too!) There are lots of awesome Meetup.com groups that focus on the dev/tech side of building for mobile. The emphasis of this group is on research, requirements gathering, definition, UX, product management, and design of mobile apps and sites. Come on over, we'll put on a fresh p …

Design&Startups is a group for the best web, mobile, and graphic designers in the Bay Area. With growth and focus shifting from only technology to beautifully designed technology, Design&Startups wants to be the central place to learn about it. We will interview amazing designers, provide access to great products, and showcase beautiful work. Join us if you believe in a more beautiful web.

Mobility in Enterprises is a meetup for people to exchange ideas on how today's enterprises should embrace Mobility on the consumer and enterprise front to increase revenues, achieve higher productivity and create newer business models to transform business. The meetups would be speaker sessions, panel discussions and happy hours to mingle with like minded individuals.

The Interaction Design Studio organizes workshops, discussions, and presentations aimed at discovering and sharing knowledge related to user interface and user experience design. We explore and promote useful tips and tools, including design patterns, HTML, CSS & JS templates, and prototyping systems that are useful to web designers and developers. We also host workshops aimed at bridging the knowledge-base gap that exists between designers and developers, especially in the freelance community.

Anything social sales: from new business models like free trial, freemium, in-app purchases to use of social media for lead generation and sales to social products of the future. Meetup for sales stars, other customer facing personnel and growth hackers to compare notes on what works and what doesn't.

This is a group for all usability professionals in the Bay Area to socialize, network and share ideas. Long Term Plans are planning to establish a local chapter of the UXPA Intl Association.

User Engagement Pros will be a supportive Meetup for Saas/Cloud/UX/Customer Support people who are looking to share and learn the best practices in engaging users, reducing customer support costs, limiting churn, and increasing trial to paid users. We will have top notch speakers, demos, and always have time for networking and schmoozing. Sign up and stay tuned for upcoming events coming soon!

No more ugly apps. Our aim is to create mobile designs that are beautiful, easy to use and profitable. This meetup is designed for those interested in user experience, UI, workflow and design on Android or iOs. It is geared towards engineers, designers, usability researchers and app enthusiasts who want explore what makes for great mobile design. We crave uncovering the secrets of great design. Why? The world needs more beauty.

Have you been unfriended recently because you subject your facebook friends to unwanted A and B surveys? Are you constantly in search of valuable, measurable user feedback from your targeted demographic? Let's face it. User feedback is one of the most valuable aspects of new ventures that leads to creating a compelling and memorable product. If you are creating a new site/product/app and are in need of user feedback. This MeetUp is right for you. The world of User Experience/Interaction design …

ProductTank provides an opportunity for Product Managers in San Francisco and the Valley to exchange ideas and experiences about Product Design, Development and Management, as well as Lean, Business Modelling, Metrics, User Experience and all the other things that get us excited. Events include short talks from guest speakers on topics around product management, design and development as well as plenty of time for networking and a good old-fashioned chin-wag over a beer or two. We're open to com …

A community of aspiring and existing Product Managers. Want to be a Product Manager? This group is for people interested in entering or learning more about Product Management and for existing Product Managers who wish to be mentors and share their experiences. We will bring in product experts to share their knowledge, help build product skills, have networking opportunities and also work on projects together. These projects can be personal or volunteer challenges posed by non-profits with a goal …

As a voice for the local design community, the IDSA Silicon Valley Chapter aims to: Celebrate Silicon Valley design, and the people who practice it; extol the value of good design to business leaders and the public alike. Fan the flames of inspiration by providing opportunities to learn from and share knowledge with others. Bring people together, face-to-face, to form meaningful relationships with other designers and those in related fields.

This is a group for experience designers who want to practice their trade, and developers, project managers and visual designers who want to understand more about what UI/UX design is, how it's practiced, and what factors real UI/UX designers consider. This is a place to understand the nuances of designing human-computer interaction and to help everyone get an idea of what to look for, how to approach it, and what the design process should look and feel like. Meetups are based on demand and are …

This is a group for Project Managers interested in Product development or in a career change: from Project to Product Manager. I started this group after making the change myself and realizing that there were a lot of others like me trying to do the same. So, this group is for everyone who needs help to make the move as well as learn more about how to manage product develoment. Project managers, Product managers, start-up entrepreneurs and Data analysts crowd is expected.

"Are you a techie with a passion to work on new ideas/startups ?" Do you wish to have a meetup to connect with other like-minded techies but found that the existing meetup groups are too chaotic to let you meet the right people?" Do you have an idea that you would like to find people passionate to work on? The goal of this group is to help developers and  ideators connect together to work on early stages of developing an idea/creating mockups etc. You can expect to make new friends, brainstorm a …