This month’s meeting of the User Experience Group of Waterloo looks like fun. It’s an opportunity to talk about the state of UX in Waterloo Region. Even cooler is the venue, the wonderful Whole-Lotta-Gelata in Waterloo. UX chatter, gelato, paninis — how can you beat that? It’s on Thursday May 21 at 5:30pm.
Two nights on the town: UX and QA/Agile peer-to-peer groups
I’m lucky to have access to some great resources in town for career-related learning. Communitech, the Waterloo Region Technology Association, host many peer-to-peer groups focused on a variety of areas of interest to people working with technology. I’ve mentioned the UX Group of Waterloo Region in previous posts. This month’s meeting was an entertaining night of UX-related videos (and accompanying popcorn)
This week, in addition the movie night, I also attended the Waterloo Agile Lean peer-to-peer meeting on Testing in Agile – a QA’s journey. Guelph-based Innosphere shared their experiences with QA and Agile over the last 2+ years. The thing that I enjoyed most was hearing how similar many of their experiences are to what we’ve found with integrating QA and Scrum at Primal Fusion. It’s reassuring to hear that others are on the same path and have arrived at similar solutions to the various challenges.
Lights! Camera! Interaction!
The User Experience Group of Waterloo Region is having a movie night on Wednesday April 22, starting at 5:30pm. There’s the promise of “a variety of movies about our relationship with the tools and technologies that surround us” as well as munchies! As my second post for this blog floated my theory that The Dam Busters is a great metaphor for a start up, I’m looking forward seeing to what folks have to bring to the cinematic UX mélange.
If you haven’t been to one of the UX Group meetings before, come on out. It’s a great opportunity to meet with like-minded folks.
Field research: How do UX folks behave in a pub?
Speaking of events that well worth attending, the next monthly meeting of User Experience Group of Waterloo Region happens this coming Thursday March 19. The great thing about this group is that the meetings are mix of engaging speakers (like last month’s Scott Berkun event) and more low key design discussions. This month’s Books and Brewskies event is definitely in the low key design discussion category, with the added bonus of a relaxed pub environment.
Do you have a question about how to do guerrilla testing? Are you wondering how to do UX in an agile environment? Are you trying to cope with a strategy for rolling out UX in your company? Do you long to become a UX designer? Do you have a movie metaphor you want to share?
Do come out and connect with your fellow UX folks and help build a thriving UX community in Waterloo region.