[uxgraz] UX Graz Community - Outlook 2021

[community at uxgraz.at]

Merry UX Mas, Folks!


Our first year of UX Graz is over and a lot happened since our initial 
meetup in December 2019.



--- Highlights 2020 ---

Besides managing to bring our own meetups online, we connected to other 
global initiatives and events like the 24 Hours of UX, an event that 
brought local communities to a global audience of over 7000 UX 
professionals all around the world. UX Graz will participate as 
community at next years event in June as well. We also managed to 
present our community at the World Usability Congress, the Smashing 
Conference, and the Savvy UX Summit. We will keep our partnerships and 
might get some discounts or free tickets for our community members if 
you want to attend some of those events next year.

However, we were also coming closer together with other Austrian UX 
communities and will continue our collaborative meetup about the RoI of 
UX together with UX Linz next year (stay tuned for more information). 
Our community also got the opportunity to support the first World 
Usability Day Austria bringing together the UX communities from Linz, 
Salzburg, Vienna, and Graz. If you didn't have the time to participate, 
you can rewatch the sessions on our YouTube channel: 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpmSBO12QEh1BTs49iQDb2Q/ (we are going 
to add more of our Meetup recordings to the channel as soon as we had 
the time to cut them).



--- #UXGraz #BetterTogether ---

All of this would not have been possible for me alone, therefore, I am 
really happy to introduce my co-organizers Konny Hoffmann and Nikolaus 
Koren who started supporting me since summer 2020 and will organize and 
moderate some of our meetups in 2021. Besides that, I also want to thank 
Karin Pichler, Hannes Robier, Keith Andrews, Markus Pirker, Amy Woolsey, 
and Katrin Höllebauer for supporting the UX Graz community actively 
during the last year (and hopefully also will continue to support us in 
2021).

Due to this active support, we managed to start several meetup formats 
this year, started working on our website, created our social media 
channels (and filled them with content) and much more!

If you also want to be part of our family, you can join our quarterly UX 
Graz Organization Meetings or join our slack channel. Just email us and 
we will send you all relevant links and dates: community at uxgraz.at




--- Outlook 2021 ---

We are going to continue our meetups and go back to local events as soon 
as possible. However, we will try to make it possible for our 
international audience, to keep at least some of our events in an online 
or hybrid (local/online) format. Furthermore, we are going to launch our 
website in 2021. As already mentioned in the highlights, we are also 
partnering up with other UX communities all around the world and support 
international UX events. We have a lot of awesome plans for our future 
as growing UX community and if you want to be part of this, feel free to 
reach out to community at uxgraz.at



*** Upcoming Events 2021 ***

#1 UX Research 2020 & Beyond. From (Remote) Research Basics to 
Continuous Research. (Online Event)
https://www.meetup.com/uxgraz/events/275184512/

📆 When?
Tuesday, January 19th 2021, 6.30PM (CET)

🗺️ Where?
Anywhere ;) it is online!

💬 What?
Get out and talk to the user! A piece of great advice for a user-centric 
approach - but the digital world - and COVID-19 - set us up some 
challenges to struggle here. In his meetup session, Jonas Fuchs shares 
his experiences. He will highlight how to conduct remote research, the 
essential basics, and how to build systems within companies to ensure 
user affinity.

How much?
The meetup is absolutely free!



#2 UX/UI Books'n'Beer (UXGraz Book Club, Local Event)
https://www.meetup.com/uxgraz/events/275320842

📆 When?
Thursday, February 11th 2021, 5PM (CET)

🗺️ Where?
Unfortunately, online (due to the current situation)

💬 What?
Join us for a beer at the next UX/UI book club. This time we are talking 
about "Hooked" by Nir Eyal.

How much?
You are responsible for your own drinks 📖🍻



#3 Adobe XD Presentation and Workshop (Online Event)
[link will follow soon]

📆 When?
Wednesday, February 24th 2021, 7PM (CET)

🗺️ Where?
Anywhere ;) it is online!

💬 What?
We start with a keynote by A.J. Wood from Adobe and a Q&A session. 
Afterwards, you can try out everything you learned in a hands-on session 
organized by the UX Graz community.

How much?
The meetup is absolutely free!




We wish you a great experience through the festive season!

Konny, Niko, and Johannes from #UXGraz


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