We’re excited to announce that the Los Angeles User Experience Meetup Group now has over 4,000+ members. We want to thank all our members, our volunteers/contributors, and sponsors who have helped make our Los Angeles User Experience Meetup Group one of the most vibrant UX design communities both online and offline in the world.

Early on in his talk “A Metaphysical History of Western Philosophy and Design” on April 20 in Downtown LA, Arturo Perez warned that it would include some cerebral stuff. “It’s okay if you zone out and let the abstraction take you somewhere.” He was not kidding. For the next hour or so, the founder and CEO of Kluge took members of The Los Angeles User Experience Meetup, assembled in the front area of the downtown co-working establishment Blankspaces, on a dizzying tour through the history of human philosophy from Plato to Derrida. Read the full article »



Get another chance to catch Arturo’s talk tonight (yes, tonight May 24th) on the Westside. If can help volunteer for setup or cleanup for the event, please let us know. Register now »

This past Saturday, we worked with Shri Jambhekar, AIGA Orange County and OCUX Meetup on our UX Beginner Bootcamp. We had a full classroom of experienced graphics/web designers and some developers re-calibrating themselves to transition into UX. We’re planning on bringing one to LA County so let us know if you’re interested. Check out our photos!

We joined the brand new L.A. Sketch Meetup Group for pizza and beer at their inaugural meetup May 11 at CoolHaus Headquarters in Culver City. Galya Iliev, from Sketch HQ was in town to kick this one off with Geremy Mumenthaler for this very fun and standing room only event. Join their Meetup for future events.

Village Workspaces take Networking as an experience to the next level with their “Networking and Sound Immersion” series next week (May 26th) with special guest George Sarah. George has been featured on LA stations like KCRW, KPFK, KCSN, and KXLU playing his original compositions from a bank of synthesizers and drum machines alongside a trio of live strings, bridging the normally discrete musical worlds of electronic and classical. RSVP today!



We’re restarting our Popular Peer-to-Peer UX Design Reviews + UX Office Hours on the Westside thanks to Village Workspaces (on Olympic and Bundy) starting in June. RSVP today!

Cooper U will be coming to LA this summer between July 28th and August 5th. Check out the courses in Design Leadership, Brand Experience, Creative Ideation, Customer Insights, and Interaction Design at their LA workshops page.



SoCalUX Camp. Our annual flagship partner event with OCUX now has a confirmed date for August 6th. This year it will be held at Cal State Fullerton’s Irvine campus. Visit SoCalUX Camp website and follow us on Twitter to know when registration opens up soon! (Interested in speaking at the event? Contact: [address removed])



GRID 110 and LMU Startup Bootcamp, June 11th. Are you a UX designer wanting to launch your own startup? You can join the startup incubator, GRID110 and the LMU (Loyola Marymount University)  Kiesner Center for Entrepreneurship for a 2-day intensive workshop on ideation and business plan validation. Collaborate with and get feedback from fellow entrepreneurs. Meet your future co-founders and partners. Test your idea with serial entrepreneurs, investors and academics. Come out of this workshop armed with an iron-clad business plan, and the vision to make it real.



TechJobsLA will hold their 5th annual Job Fair in late September. Previous sponsors include Amazon, Team One, Onward Search, Deluxe, NetDNA, Syndicate Bleu, Cars.com, Artisan Creative. This year’s event will include a full panel of LA’s most creative women UX designers as well as free workshops. The event will be announced on LAUX Meetup as a partner event.



Venture in LA, November 14-18th. Speaking of startups, UX-centric entrepreneurs looking to get some funding for your digital product should check out Venture in LA this fall. It’s billed as the “Biggest Market Ready Tech Trade Mission in Los Angeles.”



Website Weekend - Coding for a Cause in October 2016 is a great way for UX & web designers to work with web developers together  to give back to the community by building websites for select non-profits.

By Jackie Lee and Katie Huang

Love The Noun Project? Try the Mac app, which allows you to drag and drop over 100,000 vector and raster icons into your favorite apps, royalty-free. Don’t know what the Noun Project is? It’s probably the world’s largest selection of icons for use in your app or website!

With Sketch’s Zeplin plug-in, instantly generate up-to-date specs and style guides for your work in Sketch! You can pick individual assets that you want to export. Handing off work to developers has never been easier!

Need a Swiss Army knife of Conversion Rate Optimization tools? HotJar offers a wide range of advanced analytic tools such as heat mapping and conversion funnels, helping set your website apart from the crowd.

Get a free user test, courtesy of Loop11!

Loop11 offers remote usability testing with features such as heatmaps, clickstream analysis, and real-time reporting—no HTML or CSS required.

Sign up and use referral code LAUX2016 for access to the full product suite (a $350 value) for your first test.

SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL OUR (CURRENT & PAST) SPONSORS

As part of our 4,000+ membership milestone, we also want to acknowledge many of our current and previous sponsors for with their generous support. They include (in random order): Vitamin T, Blankspaces, Village Workspaces, SyndicateBleu, Cross Campus, Indie Desk, Cooper, Artisan Creative, Team One, Microsoft, The Noun Project, Kluge Interactive, AIGA OC, Irvine Technology Corp, Xivic, and more organizations we may have neglected to include.



LAUX MEETUP NEWSLETTER TEAM (last name alphabetical order):

Jessica Brown, George Colon, Emerson Dameron, Crystal Ehrlich, Meri Gulyan, Michael Haggerty-Villa, Katie Huang, Jackie Lee, Min Ryu, and Noel Saw.



Want to contribute? Fill out our Article Submission form. We can’t guarantee everyone’s article will be included but we’ll take a close look at your idea.



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