IxDA-Austin

The IxDA Austin is a local community-focused group within the larger Interaction Design Association. Whether you’re an information architect, interaction designer, visual designer or usability specialist, we seek to provide an opportunity for you to engage in conversation and learning across disciplines.

A community of user experience, interaction design, usability, and information architecture professionals.

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neil everette added a discussion
User Experience Designers
We're currently seeking experienced User Experience Design professionals to join our newly formed team within a rapidly growing corporate Design group. color:black"">What we’re looking for Visual designers color:black"">We’re seeking creative ind…
January 31
Vitorio Miliano added an event
February 1, 2010 from 7pm to 9pm
Come out for a UX design practice workshop! We'll be completing last week's design refinement practice exercise. http://vi.to/practice-ux/ has the essay with the premise of these workshops. We are DOWNTOWN this week! "Texas Coworking is located at…
January 29
Austin IxDA updated an event
Interaction 10 at Savannah, Georgia
February 4, 2010 to February 7, 2010
Interaction 10 promises four intense days of education, inspiration and connection in the world of interaction design. Our goal is for you to go home with your brain full of new ideas, tools and strategies, your body tired from staying up late enrap…
January 18
Rob Jones added a discussion
Senior UX Designer at Build-A-sign
I just saw this on GeekAustin, know nothing about it. http://www.buildasign.com/careers
January 14
Andrew Jimeno added a discussion
Information Architect - T3
Our information architects work with creative and development teams to craft and chart innovative strategies rooted in fundamentals of usability, standards, and plain old common sense. From a project’s infancy through beyond the launch, the informat…
January 14
An event by Vitorio Miliano was featured
UX design practice workshop at Genuine Joe Coffeehouse
January 18, 2010 from 7pm to 9pm
Come out for a design practice workshop on Monday, January 18th, from 7-9pm, at Genuine Joe Coffeehouse (it's on Anderson Lane up the road from the Alamo Drafthouse Village). We’ll be trying a design refinement practice exercise. Come a little earl…
January 13
Vitorio Miliano added an event
UX design practice workshop at Genuine Joe Coffeehouse
January 18, 2010 from 7pm to 9pm
Come out for a design practice workshop on Monday, January 18th, from 7-9pm, at Genuine Joe Coffeehouse (it's on Anderson Lane up the road from the Alamo Drafthouse Village). We’ll be trying a design refinement practice exercise. Come a little earl…
January 13
Mark Decker added a discussion
Silverlight UX Developer
Silverlight UX/UI Developer Qvinci Software is an award winning company that provides management software solutions to small and medium sized businesses. We have a fun, casual work environment full of dedicated, ridiculously talented employees who…
January 5
Rob Jones added an event
January 20, 2010 from 7pm to 8:30pm
Flash Catalyst (beta) is a very cool new tool for designers to prototype their designs. I have been playing with it recently and thought it would be useful and fun to meet up informally and talk about it. I highly recommend downloading the beta vers…
January 4
Vitorio Miliano added an event
UX practice workshop at Genuine Joe Coffeehouse
January 4, 2010 from 7pm to 9pm
Come out for the first design practice workshop of the year on Monday, January 4th, from 7-9pm, at Genuine Joe Coffeehouse (it’s on Anderson Lane near the Alamo Drafthouse Village). We’ll be doing a brainstorming practice exercise. Come a little ea…
January 2
Vitorio Miliano added a blog post
Practice user experience and interaction design with your peers Thanks everyone for their feedback both here and offline. I'd like to start hosting UX and IxD practice regularly (really regularly, at least every other week) in the new year, startin…
December 21, 2009
Rob Jones added a discussion
Informal Flash Catalyst meetup
Flash Catalyst (beta) is a very cool new tool for designers to prototype their designs. I have been playing with it recently and thought it would be useful and fun to meet up informally and talk about it. I highly recommend downloading the beta vers…
December 16, 2009
Todd Wilkens added a discussion
Visual Designer Freelance/Contract for Adaptive Path
Adaptive Path is seeking an experienced Visual Design Practitioner in Austin, who supports our cause of delivering great experiences that improve people's lives. This is a contract position. About Adaptive Path: We're an experience strategy and des…
December 15, 2009
Vitorio Miliano added a blog post
Or it will be, if it hits its funding goal by Friday. The outline seems solid, the writer seems competent, but what's most intriguing is the bonuses for backing the project: Pledge $100 or more "and you give me a URL, application, etc. Then I write…
November 28, 2009
Vitorio Miliano added a blog post
A couple of months ago, someone formed a #ux channel on the Freenode IRC network, which is where other things like Drupal, CSS and jQuery have their IRC channels. I've idled there since then, but it never got much traction. Just throwing it out the…
November 24, 2009
Vitorio Miliano added a discussion
Toastmasters for UX designers
Last month, I bent a few people's ears about the idea of a "Toastmasters International" for UX. The idea seemed to solve a lot of common problems, and could provide the venue for developing common terms, metrics and criteria for criticism. What fol…
November 24, 2009

Members

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  • Robert Banh
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  • Craig Moser
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  • Janet Swisher
  • abhishek bhor
  • Kellie Mecham
  • Alex S. Jones
  • Laura Hayden
 

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Events

Forum

Tori Breitling

Interaction Designer / UX Designer - SolarWinds, Austin

Contact mark.wilkerson@solarwinds.com if interested. Summary: An opportunity to join SolarWinds as an interaction designer, where you will bring your innovation and creativity to creating an outst…

Started by Tori Breitling in jobs Feb 5.

neil everette

User Experience Designers

We're currently seeking experienced User Experience Design professionals to join our newly formed team within a rapidly growing corporate Design group. What we’re looking for Visual designers We’r…

Tagged: design, experience, interface, user

Started by neil everette in jobs Jan 31.

Rob Jones

Senior UX Designer at Build-A-sign

I just saw this on GeekAustin, know nothing about it. http://www.buildasign.com/careers

Started by Rob Jones in jobs Jan 14.

Andrew Jimeno

Information Architect - T3

Our information architects work with creative and development teams to craft and chart innovative strategies rooted in fundamentals of usability, standards, and plain old common sense. From a project…

Started by Andrew Jimeno in jobs Jan 14.

Blog Posts

Vitorio Miliano

Design practice meetings starting January 4

Practice user experience and interaction design with your peers

Thanks everyone for their feedback both here and offline. I'd like to start hosting UX and IxD practice regularly (really regularly, at least every other week) in the new year, starting January 4. Details are on the site, and the URL should be short enough to tweet and post around.

Please tell your friends, coworkers and associates. I'll keep the calendar and page upda… Continue

Posted by Vitorio Miliano on December 21, 2009 at 12:39am

Vitorio Miliano

Cadence & Slang is a book about interaction design.

Or it will be, if it hits its funding goal by Friday. The outline seems solid, the writer seems competent, but what's most intriguing is the bonuses for backing the project:

Pledge $100 or more "and you give me a URL, application, etc. Then I write up two pages or so about its usability and potential future steps you can take."

Pledge $250 or more "and you give me a URL, application, etc. Then I write up a full report, probably around ten pages, analyzing it in detail."

$100 for a two-page us… Continue

Posted by Vitorio Miliano on November 28, 2009 at 5:57pm

 
 

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