[uxgraz] UX Graz Community Update March / April

[UX Graz Community]

Hello Folks!

 

It’s been a while since our last newsletter and a lot of things happened since then, but, first things first:

We hope you had a great start and great two first month in 2021. For everyone who didn’t have the time to join our UX Mas in December or our first meetups, we briefly summarize the most important news

 

Before we start:

If you know anything that we should share on our social media channels (jobs opportunities, blog posts, news, podcasts, workshops, events – anything relevant to UX in the styrian UX community), let us know via:

https://forms.gle/FT7bBNHZRwGxzFMv5

 

 

--- Highlights ---

Our core organization team grew to 4 people: 

Amy is responsible for our new UX Graz website, which will be launched in March or April ( https://uxgraz.at/ )

Konny supports us by organizing and moderating meetups

Niko is responsible for moderation and organization for remote participations for our events (as soon as we go back to local event, we will provide remote participations for people who cannot join our local events)

Johannes is still there 😉

 

We started to connect with the Austrian UX communities in Linz and Vienna and moved closer together in a single slack channel. If you also want to connect with us, let us know via community at uxgraz.at <mailto:community at uxgraz.at>  and we will send you an invite to the uxaustria slack group.

 

Besides that, we are actively participating in the organization of the 24 Hours of UX ( https://24hoursofux.com ) and will have a collaborative session with UX Brisbane as part of the event in June!

 

--- First Events 2021 ---

We had a great start in January. Jonas from considerly was talking about UX Research and will provide us a workshop on their tool in summer 2021.

February was a little bit stressful: The UX Graz community organized 3 events: (1) our first book club this year on Hooked by Nir Eyal, (2) we tried out a new format: Open Discussion, which we will include in our meetups from now on on a regular basis, since it provides a great opportunity to connect with each other and share your own expertise and knowledge, and (3) our first Tool Workshop took place: after a short keynote by A.J. Wood from Adobe, we had a short hands-on session – the second one is coming up in April and will give you insights into Uizard, an AI powered prototyping tool. 

 

In addition to our events, we had our quarterly organization meeting. 

>> If you are interested to give back to the community and support us actively, feel free to get in touch via community at uxgraz.at <mailto:community at uxgraz.at>  and we will invite you to our organization meetings and internal communication channels. Anyone is welcome 😉 <<

 

 

 

*** Upcoming Events ***

 

#1 Hands-on Session: 10 Usability Heuristics and Video Games (Online Event)

https://www.meetup.com/uxgraz/events/276365075/

 

📆 When?

Tuesday, March 16th 2021, 6:30PM (CET)

 

🗺️ Where?

Anywhere ;) it is online!

 

💬 What?

The 10 Usability heuristics by Jakob Nielsen are general principles used in interactive design to ensure usability. This is not relevant in every kind of product design, heuristic evaluations and also in game design.
In this Hands on session we will have a closer look at the ten heuristics, how they are applied in video games and we will try to find them in games and software that we use.

 

How much?

The meetup is absolutely free!

 

 

 

#2 Uizard Workshop: Creating a Functional High-Fidelity Prototype in 20 Minutes (Online Event)

https://www.meetup.com/uxgraz/events/276754635/

 

📆 When?

Tuesday, April 6th 2021, 7:00PM (CEST)

 

🗺️ Where?

Anywhere ;) it is online!

 

💬 What?

Florian van Schreven, co-founder and COO of Uizard Technologies will show us in a short workshop what rapid prototyping really means. You will get to know Uizard - an AI-powered wireframing tool.

We will create a functional high-fidelity prototype in 20 minutes!
More information about the tool: 🌐 https://uizard.io/
You can create a free account through https://app.uizard.io/auth/sign-up before the event and try out everything on your own.

 

How much?

The meetup is absolutely free!

 

 

 

#3 UX Graz April Meetup (Online Event)

URL or Location Coming Soon on https://www.meetup.com/uxgraz/ 

 

📆 When?

Tuesday, April 20th 2021, 6:30PM (CEST)

 

🗺️ Where?

Anywhere ;) it is online!

 

💬 What?

Framing in UX

(more details coming soon)

 

How much?

The meetup is absolutely free!

 

 

 

#4 UX Graz May Meetup hosted by Parkside (Online Event)

URL or Location Coming Soon on https://www.meetup.com/uxgraz/ 

 

📆 When?

Tuesday, May 18th 2021, 6:30PM (CEST)

 

🗺️ Where?

Location will be announced as soon as possible. If possible, we will meet in person!

 

💬 What?

UX Writing

(more details coming soon)

 

How much?

The meetup is absolutely free!

 

 

 

 

More Events will be announced soon!

 

 

 

*** UXGraz is looking for speakers! ***

If you want to share your knowledge or experience with us, or want to show one of your projects and discuss with the community, contact us 

community at uxgraz.at <mailto:community at uxgraz.at>  

We organize different meetup formats and will definitely find the right one for you!

 

 

 

Konny, Niko, and Johannes from #UXGraz

 

 

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