Thoughtworks is a home for anyone interested in user experience design and the development of technology products. Join us for talks, workshops, and new perspectives on UX, and meet others in the experience design community. TW NYC is located at 99 Madison, floor 15.

A group to discuss digital user experience (UX) both on web and mobile platforms. Meetings could cover research or innovative real world examples & case studies Design topics can include (but not limited to) interaction design, UI design, mobile app design (iPhone, iPad, Android), usability, site stickiness, human-computer interaction, value of entertainment factor beyond core conversions, etc. From the data side of things we'd like to have discussions around using data to drive and measure UX …

Love Android? Passionate about technology? Android Users Meetup is a new group for those interested in gaining knowledge and sharing enthusiasm about anything and everything Android. Meeting topics will be both Android-related (latest developments & trends, app rants and raves, etc.) and phone-specific (hardware issues, tips and techniques, accessories, etc.). Whatever your background or interest level, if you're excited about the future adoption of this platform and looking for a fun and open e …

This group is designed to bring together the Microsoft Windows Azure development community in the NYC Metro area to talk about challenges, roadmap, what we'd like to see in future releases, and overall user experience. Please use our hashtag on Twitter to tweet about this usergroup: #NYCAZURE

Brooklyn. User Experience. Happy hour. We meet irregularly--three or four times a year. And it's fun. Really, is there much more to say?

NYC UX Acrobatics primary focus is the varied facets of UX design, research and usability. Our aim is to create monthly 'UX themed' workshop style meetings where members work with each other learning, discovering and networking on all things UX. Potential topics: paper prototyping, experience maps, user research and testing, persona dev, a/b testing, front-end best practices, RWD (Responsive Web Design), PET Design (Persuasion, Emotion, and Trust Design), competitive analysis, sketching UX, cont …

Welcome to NYC-CHI, the NYC chapter of SIG-CHI (Special Interest Group - Computer Human Interaction www.sigchi.org/). We hold UX-focused events and have an active mailing list to service the NYC region. We have over 1900 active members in all aspects of HCI, including information architects, interaction designers, user experience designers, service designers, product and museum experience designers, usability practitioners, digital librarians, user interface designers and UI developers. We're t …

The Optimizing Mobile Apps Meetup is for anyone with a passion for mobile metrics, mobile user experience, conversion optimization, increasing video consumption as well as performing A/B testing on a mobile app - This is a group who shares best practices about optimizing mobile apps - specific topics include mobile UX case studies, tools, latest lessons learned and of course networking! There will be plenty to share and learn about for those from agencies to stand-alone app owners to ecommerce t …

The Design Task Force for Global Change is an interdisciplinary team that addresses the citizen usability of software and mobile applications with organizations such as The Guardian Project, Open Internet Tools Project, Witness.org, Georgia Law Society Project, and many more. Comprised of designers and open source developers, The Task Force meets semi-regularly to discuss the UX/UI/design strengths and weaknesses of current software projects in development; discuss software usability from a desi …

Natural user interface (NUI) is about to take the world as the newest revolution in computing and devices. The next tech rock stars are the people developing NUI and the businesses they envision will be the next hot tech start-ups. We are those people that are changing the world and the way people interact and experience things through our projects, products, and start-ups. We use voice control, voice recognition, facial recognition, eye tracking, gesture, motion capture, emotional response, sen …

This workshop series will cover the fundamentals of design through short expert talks and interactive design exercises; it will focus on how to design products that meet users’ needs in as easy and delightful a way as possible. The free workshops, which are only for students, will meet every other Tuesday at 6:30pm. Design is about creating something to achieve a goal. Maybe you want to design an iPhone app to help people eat more healthily. Or maybe you want to create a piece of public policy …

These meetups will be hosted by Backbase. We are a portal software company focused on superior User Experience, particularly in the Financial World. Being that we are located in downtown Manhattan, one of the Financial Capitals of the world, it would make sense to get a meetup going with people interested in Bank 2.0, Bank Innovation, User Experience in Enterprises, etc... Initially I hope the meetups to be networking events but hopefully we can branch out and have some community presentations, …

A gathering of all those interested in the discussion and study of signs, meaning systems, web science, thinking, language, and knowledge in digital and web spaces. Open to all disciplines: All interested individuals are welcome, including academics, philosophers, advertising professionals, communications professionals, independent researchers, computer scientists, digital anthropologists, linguists, designers, information architects, user experience, human interaction, developers, localization, …

This is a meeting place and professional development network for user experience professionals (including information architects, usability professionals, interaction designers, visual designers, systems analysts, and business analysts) in northern New Jersey. We're building interactions and content to help users get the results they want and need. You can log in using the blue "Log in" link at the top of the page. If you're new to the group and want to join, you can register using the "Sign u …

We will talk shop and share thoughts on IA, IxD, UI, UX and Mobile.

Design Founders: A community for designers turned entrepreneurs. Whether you're a designer launching a tech startup, a clothing-line, a letterpress shop, or a non-profit, you're likely navigating the same challenges, and sharing the same goals, as other designers-turned-founders. Our goal is to connect designers who are creating new companies so we can exchange our shared experiences, challenges, best practices and resources. This group could also become a forum for sharing work in progress, c …

There's an incredible transformation taking place in Medicine right now, and this group is focused on the design, development and implementation of innovation -- technologic, systems and operational -- directly at healthcare professionals.  And we want to create a community that is in the lead! The current roles and responsibilities, interdependencies and ways of working  between physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals are being challenged and there will need to be car …

This meetup group is a source for professionals in the newspaper, magazine, and book industries to share ideas on touch technologies.  This group discusses the aspects of the business, programing, art, and publishing of slate devices like the iPad and other future touch technologies.  We will delve into the impact of these devices as they pertain to the best uses as well as develop and incorporate interactive capabilities.  It is important that everyone in this group has a significant amount of …

To join this group, you must rock/use/operate a Samsung Galaxy S3. Learn how to operate your device in a fun social atmosphere. Finally get real support for the thing. Get tips and tricks from other users. Boldly go where your S3 has never gone before! If only you knew what your S3 can do!

Hello information designers. This group will discuss the evolution of information design, particularly as it relates to graphic design, user experience and communications. We'll do this by showcasing some amazing work from NYC based information designers. We'd love to get your input for ideas as well!

AnthroTech is for people in the New York City area interested in using anthropological and ethnographic techniques in technological fields -- especially user experience design, online community management and customer development. We bring academic anthropologists and non-academic professionals together to cross-pollinate our respective fields.

Welcome to Responsive Web Design NYC! If you are interested in a common web strategy for mobile, tablet and desktop then Responsive Web Design NYC is right for you! This group was the first NYC Responsive Web Design Meet-up launched in Sept 2011 with the spirit of serving the design, developer, product management and business community of NYC around all topics pertaining to Responsive Web Design.  Anyone from the community can organize, participate and run an event!  We are very fortunate to hav …

Tech Under Thirty is a new meetup group for designers & tech-oriented people under the age of thirty. If you’re a game developer, a web designer, a print designer, an engineer, blogger, or anything in between, you should definitely join us. No experience required! Our focuses include: Encouraging people in design & tech industries to meet and cross-pollinate ideas. Building a word-of-mouth network to make finding jobs & recommending qualified people easier. Enabling people to learn new skills i …

A NYC Meetup where we discuss and explore principles, practices, and lessons learned at the intersection of Agile, Lean, and UX.

The UX Book Club: NYC has been in existence since 2009. We meet every two months weeks to engage in in lively, in-depth discussions of books with the potential for making an impact on the way we think and work in our field. We’re also a social club, a salon-of-sorts interested in building community among like-minded folks hungry for ideas and good talk. We believe in the concept of sharing diverse perspectives as a way toward enhancing personal practice and promoting greater community understand …

The NY Haskell Users Group is for all programmers either interested in or experienced with the Haskell programming language. We want to build a community of Haskell developers in the New York area that can share knowledge, projects, and experience, and to generally foster and encourage strongly typed functional programming, in all languages, all settings, and all industries. Our events will center around talks, but we intend to have other sorts of activities, including social hours, code worksho …

This is the meetup group for the SharePoint User Group in NYC that meets at Microsoft Manhattan on the first Wednesday of the month. The NYC SharePoint Users Group (NYCSPUG) was founded in March 2006. Our mission from inception has been to share deep SharePoint experience with individuals who are interested in learning, sharing and growing their Microsoft SharePoint knowledge and capabilities. The group’s vision is to provide members with a forum to hear top industry experts present, learn and t …

Northern New Jersey area Drupal users group. All experience levels welcome. We usually meet at the New Jersey Institute of Technology or around that area. We are also part of groups.drupal.org (http://groups.drupal.org/node/234853) "Drupal is a free, open-source software package that allows an individual, a community of users, or an enterprise to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website" - drupal.org