User Experience

You're warmly invited to our seasonal Open Studios, to leisurely stroll around our 27 workshops and studios, meet the artists and look at a variety of art and handmade crafts - from painting to photography and from Japanese ceramics to silk screen prints. My studio (F9 upstairs) will have a selection of colourful new mixed media still-life paintings ( portable and affordable!) as well as the usual large mixed media landscapes and " merchandise" A lovely pop-up cafe will serve Japanese refreshments Family and dog-friendly All welcome, its a nice day out! Lydia

***Special ways to get divine help in daily life*** You are warmly invited to come and experience spiritual growth and fellowship as you explore what could be your next spiritual step at this ECK Light and Sound Service. This service offers you the chance to explore your own connection with the Divine. Find out how singing HU, an ancient name for God, can open your heart to God's love. Connect with the most sacred part of yourself, receive new insights and magnify love in your life through the Light and Sound of God. Divine Spirit expresses Itself in the world as Light and Sound. "Inner Guidance Connections: Special ways to get divine help in daily life" is this month's topic, which we will explore through talks and/or small group discussions. Eckankar welcomes people of all faiths and backgrounds and we have a children's program for ages 5–13. The service is about 1 hour to 1.15 hours, and light refreshments are available. New guests can also receive a guest welcome pack.

**BOOK HERE**: https://sportas.co.uk/games/50778 **Game Description:** Come and play in a casual​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​,​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ friendly & social badminton session. The session is for mixed ability players. So please be respectful and kind towards less experienced players - we all have to start somewhere join our WhatsApp group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/K507zMefM5pItnjxbXEgNg?mode=ems_copy_t We use YONEX MAVIS 600 Nylon Shuttlecocks. We have 2 spare rackets, or you can rent rackets from the sports centre (I think it’s about £2.50, but not sure) Format: We play doubles for the whole time and keep rotating opponents/partners across courts so everyone plays each other. **Rules** Classic doubles rules - can be explained at the start of the session if you’re new to badminton or need a reminder.

🚨Spoiler alert: Our events are designed to help you escape your routine and expand your circle. Starting conversations with strangers? That’s the norm. Coming solo? Totally normal. Authenticity is at the heart of what we do—being yourself isn’t just welcomed, it’s celebrated. If none of this resonates with you, our events might not be your vibe.🚨 🌳 Join us in Regent’s Park for a relaxed afternoon of board games, volleyball, team challenges, and easy conversations with a group of friendly people looking to make the most of summer. Whether you come to meet new people or simply enjoy a few hours outdoors, you'll fit right in. For a sneak peek of what’s in store, check out our[ Instagram ](https://www.instagram.com/_balancers/)and follow us for all the latest updates. 😃 Here’s the plan: 🕒 **16:00 – 16:30**: Arrive, settle in, and join us for casual **board games** and **volleyball** ⚔️ **17:00 – 18:00**: Time for a fun challenge! We’ll divide into teams for a few easy, silly competitions. Prefer to just hang out? Totally cool—you can keep chilling on the sidelines. 🎲 **18:00 onwards**: Back to board games, volley, and relaxed vibes. Pro tips: **[📲 Register on the Balancers app and unlock the full experience.](https://onelink.to/balancers)** **[Download the app to RSVP for the event, collect the golden coins you win in our games, and connect with other attendees after the event.](https://onelink.to/balancers)** ***👉 [https://onelink.to/balancers](https://onelink.to/balancers)*** 🧺 Bring snacks and your favourite drink—wine, beer, juice, it’s all welcome. 🎒 Got a board game you love? Bring it! 💬 This is your chance to reset, reconnect, and meet some amazing humans. 📍**Exact meeting point**: [https://goo.gl/maps/r2Beg5CeY4vnD8119](https://goo.gl/maps/r2Beg5CeY4vnD8119) 🚻 Toilets? 5-min walk away. Easy. 📲 **Join our WhatsApp group** for updates: [https://chat.whatsapp.com/IJKXDkwUTlmDsYTOCIUg7O](https://chat.whatsapp.com/IJKXDkwUTlmDsYTOCIUg7O) 🌳 Let’s leave the park better than we found it—take your rubbish with you and respect the space. ***Remember, our pillars are Respect, Kindness and Authenticity. Let's uphold these together. Any discrimination or disrespectful behaviour towards any of our members will not be tolerated.***

**BOOK HERE**: https://sportas.co.uk/games/41485 **Game Description:** Please be aware that our sessions are also on our own mobile app. Therefore, the number of participants you currently see may not reflect the total number of participants. Elevate your volleyball skills at our adult coaching sessions! Led by expert coaches, our sessions cater to all levels, from beginners to experienced players. Develop your technique, agility, and teamwork through drills and gameplay. Join our vibrant community and unleash your full potential on the court. Let's play, learn, and excel together. **Rules:** By booking this session, you acknowledge and agree to comply with our terms and conditions, privacy policies, and cancellation policy, which can be found below **Terms & Conditions at:** https://www.littlegiantsvc.com/terms-and-conditions **Privacy Policy at:** https://www.littlegiantsvc.com/privacy-policy

Our July meeting will happen away from home, in good old London town. We' ll meet at 10.30am in a nice cafe with large meeting room(s) near Paddington. The location is ideal for both Londoners and people who wish to travel to the meeting from outside the capital (or other parts of it). In the afternoon, there will be a group walk through the streets of Central London, organised by the London Esperanto Club. What a great opportunity to take part in one of the two events or in both! If you'd like more information on the Group Walk, please send a message to rico\esperanto\org. Events are aimed at Esperanto speakers of all abilities or experience. Don't think you need to already be able to hold a conversation to attend. Do come along, we can all practise and improve our Esperanto together. We look forward to seeing you then! NB: Our events normally happen on Saturdays. This one will happen on a SUNDAY. Please let us know in advance by RSVP if you would like to join. That way, we'll know what numbers to expect and where to sit in the venue.

**BOOK HERE**: https://sportas.co.uk/games/49766 **Game Description:** 🎮 Warm up and game only setting. 🌟 Positive environment. \*Privacy policy for games only sessions\* By attending this game session, you agree to the following: \* Video recordings/photos are allowed only during free game\* sessions \* Attending means consenting to potentially being recorded by other participants \* Any videos must only be shared via private links \* Distribution limited to session participants only \* Explicit consent required for any public sharing \* Respect others' privacy and comfort \*Please contact the co-organisers if you have any questions about the policy. **Rules** \- point to 15 \- max 2 games in a row \- 3 team of 6 players \- modified games situation might be applied depending on situation \(5:1\, modified 5:1 or 6:2 etc\.\)

**BOOK HERE**: https://sportas.co.uk/games/50510 **Game Description:** 🎮 Warm up and game only setting. 🌟 Positive environment. \*Privacy policy for games only sessions\* By attending this game session, you agree to the following: \* Video recordings/photos are allowed only during free game\* sessions \* Attending means consenting to potentially being recorded by other participants \* Any videos must only be shared via private links \* Distribution limited to session participants only \* Explicit consent required for any public sharing \* Respect others' privacy and comfort \*Please contact the co-organisers if you have any questions about the policy. **Rules** \- point to 15 \- max 2 games in a row \- 3 team of 6 players \- modified games situation might be applied depending on situation \(5:1\, modified 5:1 or 6:2 etc\.\)

I'll be bringing along a few consoles and games for everyone to enjoy. Looking forward to meeting fellow gamers, having some fun, and getting to know the group!

**BOOK HERE**: https://sportas.co.uk/games/48649 **Game Description:** Come and play in a 2-4pm Mid-Intermediate​​​​​​ & Above indoor volleyball game on a Sunday afternoon 🙌 🚨Be considerate & ONLY sign up to this game if you are at this level (sorry!). We have the right to cancel & refund you from this game if we think you're a beginner (you will be notified via email). This is nothing personal at all, we just need to ensure good quality games and rallies 🔥 **Directions:** 🚶‍♂️ 7 minute walk from King's Cross or Euston Station 🚿Changing rooms and showers available. **Rules** \- 3 teams of 6 \- Games up to 15 points \- Max 2 games in a row Be positive and encouraging to all players 🧡

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**BOOK HERE**: https://sportas.co.uk/games/45917 **Game Description:** Come and join some casual, fun & friendly outdoor Beach Volleyball games in London Bridge 🎉 **Directions:** 🚶‍♂️5 minute walk from London Bridge tube station 🚾 No changing rooms/showers, just outdoor portaloo toilets Water fountain available but you need your own water bottle **Rules** \- The captain will split the group into 3 teams of 6 and you'll play games to 15 points\, maximum 2 games in a row\. \- Please familiarise yourself with basic volleyball rules before the game\. \- This is a session for mixed ability players so please be kind and respectful towards all players\, we all have to start somewhere 🧡

You can sleep in on the Semiquincentennial (observed), we’re shifting to the following Friday. But join the local UX community for a chat and some biscuits to catch up. If you were in CA for Figma Config, tell us all the lines and you can tell me how I can animate an SVG without coding it by hand, and why I’d even want to. Thanks to the team at Nationwide of supporting the group.

Topic to be announced. **CALL FOR SPEAKERS** Learn more: https://www.awscolumbus.com/get-involved/ **THANK YOU** *VEEAM* for hosting our meetup! To learn more about *Veeam*, please visit their website: https://www.veeam.com/ **DIRECTIONS** 8800 Lyra Dr #450 · Columbus, OH go to 4th floor. **Want to sponsor the pizza and/or bar tab?** Please contact me if you would like to sponsor this meetup's pizza and/or bar tab: angelo@mandato.com

Highlights and Hidden Gems in SQL Server 2025 With so much emphasis on cloud data platforms and AI these days, SQL people can feel left behind by all the marketing hype. SQL Server 2025 was officially released in November of 2025, though, and contains a ton of improvements that will make our SQL Server deployments a bit faster, better, and more secure. There are even more improvements tucked into the release that never made a marketing blog or press release that you'll likely be learning about for the first time in this session! Join this session to learn about what makes your high availability a little more available, your performance a bit more performant, and your database more developer and app-friendly. Come spend an hour with SQL people talking SQL Server 2025 – the good, the "not quite ready for prime time", and the hidden awesomeness.

Most people use LLMs by feel: ask a question, read the answer, decide whether it “seems good,” and move on. That works for casual use. It does not work when you are building software, automating workflows, writing important documents, or relying on AI for anything that needs to be repeatable. In this talk, we’ll look at how to improve and evaluate the inputs and outputs of LLMs using practical measurement techniques. We’ll cover how prompt changes affect results, how to compare outputs, how to build simple evaluation sets, and how math-based methods like similarity scoring can help you move beyond guesswork. This will be beginner-friendly, so even if you don't know anything about AI, you should get something out of it. However, this will be a little more technical than our intro talks. You do not need to be an AI researcher, but programmers and technically curious attendees will get a lot out of it. We’ll cover: * Why “it looks good” is not enough * How to improve prompts by changing the input, context, and constraints * How to compare LLM outputs more systematically * Basic evaluation techniques for accuracy, consistency, and usefulness * How embeddings, cosine similarity, and scoring can help evaluate results * Where automated evaluation works — and where humans still need to stay in the loop By the end, you’ll have a practical mental model for treating LLMs less like magic and more like systems you can test, measure, and improve. LOGISTICS AND PARKING: The talk starts at 7:00 PM. The first half hour is reserved for everyone to get set up and mingle. Free pizza and drinks! The cheapest parking option is to find street parking, which will only cost you a few bucks. Otherwise, park in the nearby veteran's museum lot for $8. It's highly recommended you avoid the nearby $15 garage parking.

**Practical Curiosity: Learning from Everyday Data** How do we actually get better at utilizing our day-to-day data? Fancy dashboards and complex models might look nice and draw attention, but that’s not where most of us spend our time. In fact those shiny outputs frequently sit unused, while the real insights are drawn from the analyst’s daily practice. Sometimes it’s as simple and as powerful as noticing that a segment is shrinking, a channel is underused, or certain links keep getting all the clicks. There’s many different places that the spark of insight can come from, but you have to keep your head in the data and know where to look. In this session, we’ll explore real-world examples of how segmentation, testing, and click behavior can uncover practical digital marketing opportunities. You’ll leave with inspiration for your own use cases, along with a few simple ways to ask better questions, spot meaningful patterns, and make smarter decisions without overcomplicating it. **About Our Speaker:** [Elaine Armbruster](https://www.linkedin.com/in/elainearmbruster/) is a Director of Digital Experience at the [American Diabetes Association](https://diabetes.org/), where she focuses on using data and insights to create smarter, more effective digital experiences. A lifelong Columbus resident, she has built her career in email marketing and the broader digital user journey, and is finding she most enjoys working in the messy middle where systems, data, and big ideas don’t quite line up yet. Thanks to our 2026 sponsors: [Clarivoy](https://www.clarivoy.com), [What Box Consulting Group](https://www.whatboxconsultinggroup.com), [Conductrics](https://www.conductrics.com), and [Piwik PRO](https://piwik.pro) More info at [cbusdaw.com](https://cbusdaw.com)

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**Hello Columbus!** **The community is buzzing and growing well. We are thrilled to bring our fourth BrowserStack QA Meetup on Thursday, July 9th!** We are creating a space for deeper insights, meaningful connections, and a vibe you won't want to miss. **What to expect:** * **Connect:** Network with Columbus' top engineering and QA minds. * **Learn:** Real-world tactics and trends you can use immediately. * **Enjoy:** Food, drinks, and great community spirit. **Agenda** * **Two Roads Diverged in a Wood: Docker Compose vs. Kubernetes** by **[Doug Reeder](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pdouglasreeder/)** **RSVP Essential:** Space is limited, and we want to ensure a great experience for everyone. **RSVP now to secure your spot!** 📍 **Venue:** Leading EDJE, 6515 Longshore Loop, Suite 300, Dublin, OH 43017 📍 **Free Parking:** 6725 Longshore Street, Dublin, OH 43017 📅 **Date & Time:** July 9, 6:00 PM **Stay Connected!** Want to continue the conversation beyond the meetup? Join our **BrowserStack Discord Server** to get updates, connect with fellow QA professionals, and be part of an ongoing discussion. **Don’t miss out—click below to join!** 🔗 [\[](https://discord.gg/6SdCyWTNyW)**[Join the BrowserStack Discord Server](https://discord.gg/6SdCyWTNyW)**[\]](https://discord.gg/6SdCyWTNyW) **A Few Notes:** ✅ This is an **in-person event** ✅ **RSVP does not guarantee a seat** – A confirmation email will be sent one day before the event. **TALK ABSTRACT:** Docker Compose and Kubernetes are two of the most popular tools for running containerized applications. Their feature lists are similar. Architects and senior developers need to know how their different paradigms lead to unexpectedly different experiences in production.