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UX Events in Boston
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Boston is a great place for user experience professionals, as there is a large community of supportive professionals, and there are many UX events in Boston every month. Whether you are looking for a professional networking event, or to learn something at an educational seminar covering the latest advancements in UX, you’ll find many opportunities in and around Boston.
UX Classes and Workshops in Boston
There are UX classes and workshops at American Graphics Institute, located just outside of Boston. These range from two-day UX courses to multi-week UX certificate programs. The Introduction to UX Design Principles course is a great place to start your UX education. If you want a full-fledged master’s degree program, Bentley University, also in suburban Boston, offers a Master’s degree in Human Factors, which includes many topics relevant for those involved in user experience design.
Professional UX Events in Boston
The User Experience Professionals Association’s Boston chapter, also known as UXPA Boston, hosts many networking activities along with workshops and other UX events for professionals and those considering entering the field. Many of these are held at area companies, and range from afternoon or evening seminars, to all-day events. If you work in Boston in a UX related role, you should consider joining UXPA and the Boston chapter.
Boston UX Conference
The UXPA in Boston also puts on a large event once per year where you can learn from many user experience professionals on a variety of topics. The UXPA Boston conference brings together more than 1,000 professionals and nearly 50 different sessions covering everything that impacts user experience. While many of the speakers are from the Boston area, the 2014 conference included speakers from as far away as California.
Get involved in Boston’s UX Community
Whether you attend a live UX workshop to learn and network, or a quick after-work event in Boston or Cambridge, it’s a worthwhile investment of your time. You’re able to keep your skills sharp, meet some others involved in the Boston UX community, gain some valuable skills and insight into your profession, and you’ll likely meet members of the UX practice from American Graphics Institute at many of these events.
About the author
Jennifer Smith is a user experience designer, educator and author based in Boston. She has worked in the field of user experience design for more than 15 years.She has designed websites, ecommerce sites, apps, and embedded systems. Jennifer designs solutions for mobile, desktop, and iOT devices.
Jennifer delivers UX training and UX consulting for large Fortune 100 companies, small start-ups, and independent software vendors.She has served as a Designer in Residence at Microsoft, assisting third-party app developers to improve their design solutions and create successful user experiences. She has been hired by Adobe and Microsoft to deliver training workshops to their staff, and has traveled to Asia, Europe, India, the Middle East, and across the U.S. to deliver courses and assist on UX design projects. She has extensive knowledge of modern UX Design, and worked closely with major tech companies to create educational material and deliver UX workshops to key partners globally. Jennifer works with a wide range of prototyping tools including XD, Sketch, Balsamiq, Fireworks, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Blend for Visual Studio. She also works extensively in the fields of presentation design and visual design.
Jennifer is also an expert on Photoshop, digital image editing, and photo manipulation. Having written 10 books on Photoshop, and having consulted and provided training to major media companies and businesses around the globe.
Jennifer is the author of more than 20 books on design tools and processes, including Adobe Creative Cloud for Dummies, Adobe Creative Cloud Digital Classroom, and Photoshop Digital Classroom. She has been awarded a Microsoft MVP three times for her work with user experience design in creating apps for touch, desktop, and mobile devices. Jennifer holds the CPUX-F certification from the User Experience Qualification Board and assists others in attaining this designation in leading a UX certification course at American Graphics Institute. She is a candidate for a Master’s degree in Human Factors in Information Design.