What we’re about
Our Mission
We support the UX community in San Antonio by creating ways for people to connect, explore, and grow.
Our Goals
To serve as an active, responsive community for people interested or working in user experience. Support learning and growth for all levels of expertise.
Develop alliances to create opportunities for UXers and expand awareness of the benefits of human-centered design. Connect people in San Antonio’s robust UX job market.
Our Purpose
To provide a community of UX practitioners a place to:
1. Learn from each other to sharpen our skills
2. Supporting each other
3. Mentoring those new to the field
4. Give and get career advice
5. Share experiences
6. Explore use cases
7. Provide resources
8. Networking within the industry
We hope to do all of these things through a consistent agenda of speakers, presentations, discussions about tools, techniques, methods, and use cases.
Come join us and we are always looking for volunteers. Join the conversation on Slack. (https://join.slack.com/t/uxsanantonio/signup)
Have fun!
Upcoming events
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•OnlineDesign Thinking in the Wild: Lessons from Teaching Non-Designers
Online13 years. Thousands of students. One big shift in how I think about Design Thinking.
After teaching Design Thinking to general-education college students for over a decade (many with zero design background) I started noticing patterns that completely changed how I run workshops and lead teams.
In this fast-paced, 1-hour remote session for UX professionals, I’ll share what teaching outside the UX bubble revealed, and how you can apply it immediately in your own work.
We'll cover:
- My #1 tool for generating A-ha insights fast, consistently, and on demand
- Why teams abandon Design Thinking (and each other) halfway through the process
- How to leverage AI to support shrinking UX teams without losing rigor
- FlashFrame™ — an AI-enhanced, rapid Design Thinking method for deeper, faster insights
Whether you facilitate workshops, lead cross-functional teams, or feel like Design Thinking has started to stall in practice, this session will give you practical tools—and a fresh perspective—to move forward.
About our speaker:
Tahari Julander is a UX educator and Design Thinking facilitator with more than 21 years of teaching experience. He draws on his early career as a kitchen designer, where he learned to translate human behavior, constraints, and emotional needs into functional solutions. This foundation continues to guide his UX practice today. Over the past decade, Tahari has taught thousands of general-education college students the Design Thinking process, gaining rare insight into how teams generate meaningful ideas and where they get stuck. His work now focuses on bringing clarity, flow, and AI-enhanced methods to UX teams and workshops.
What to expect:
* Networking, meeting people, making friends and allies, finding a mentor.
* Meetup will send a reminder email with the link on the day of the event.
* Also, you can find the Zoom event link on the event page and join.
Agenda
Program, Questions and Answers, Announcements, and Door Prize
By attending this event in person or online, you consent to be photographed, filmed, and/or otherwise recorded. You grant Fiesta for the Mind, dba UX San Antonio, unlimited license to use and publish your appearance, voice, and name in recordings of this event and marketing materials for our organization.
You agree to abide by UX San Antonio’s code of conduct.
Powered by our generous sponsors, partners, donors, and volunteers.
Swivel | 80/20 Foundation | Firecat Studio | [Avion.io](https://www.avion.io/) | Pressable
Alamo Colleges District | Fiesta for the Mind | TEDxSanAntonio
Creative Mornings San Antonio | compassionate USA | Hexagon
Visit our website | Find us on YouTube5 attendees
FlashFrame™ in Action: A Hands-On Design Thinking Workshop
Key Coworking, 1520 W Contour Drive, San Antonio, TX, USThis 2-hour, in-person workshop introduces FlashFrame™—a new, AI-enhanced Design Thinking method designed to help teams move from empathy to clarity faster, without sacrificing depth.
Together, we’ll work through the first half of the Design Thinking process, focusing on the Empathy and Define stages using the FlashFrame™ framework. Participants will engage in hands-on activities, guided discussion, and structured AI prompts to surface insights quickly and align around clear problem statements.
What you'll experience:
- A step-by-step introduction to the FlashFrame™ framework
- Practical techniques for empathy-building that work with real constraints
- Tools to move from research signals to clear, actionable problem definitions
- Guided AI prompts to support thinking, synthesis, and insight generation
- A repeatable approach you can take back to your own teams and workshops
This workshop is ideal for UX designers, researchers, product managers, and anyone who facilitates collaborative problem-solving and wants a faster, more focused way to run Design Thinking sessions.
About our speaker:
Tahari Julander is a UX educator and Design Thinking facilitator with more than 21 years of teaching experience. He draws on his early career as a kitchen designer, where he learned to translate human behavior, constraints, and emotional needs into functional solutions. This foundation continues to guide his UX practice today. Over the past decade, Tahari has taught thousands of general-education college students the Design Thinking process, gaining rare insight into how teams generate meaningful ideas and where they get stuck. His work now focuses on bringing clarity, flow, and AI-enhanced methods to UX teams and workshops.
What to expect:
* Networking, meeting people, making friends and allies, finding a mentor.
* Meetup will send a reminder email with the link on the day of the event.
* Also, you can find the Zoom event link on the event page and join.
By attending this event in person or online, you consent to be photographed, filmed, and/or otherwise recorded. You grant Fiesta for the Mind, dba UX San Antonio, unlimited license to use and publish your appearance, voice, and name in recordings of this event and marketing materials for our organization.
You agree to abide by UX San Antonio’s code of conduct.
Powered by our generous sponsors, partners, donors, and volunteers.
Swivel | 80/20 Foundation | Firecat Studio | [Avion.io](https://www.avion.io/) | Pressable
Alamo Colleges District | Fiesta for the Mind | TEDxSanAntonio
Creative Mornings San Antonio | compassionate USA | Hexagon
Visit our website | Find us on YouTube7 attendees
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