Meetups

Come join us at a monthly nexUX meetup! We gather local UX researchers, students and professionals to learn about current and emerging UX issues. Our meetups are not "sit back and listen" events, but a chance meet a diverse and cross disciplinary group of people and think about the issues facing UX, technology, and design. Coffee and snacks perk us up.

Meetups happen monthly September through May in Hunt Library's Duke Energy Hall at 3pm, usually on Fridays. You can find our latest upcoming and recent meetups as well as details on our regular venue below.

Attendance is free, but please register to help us plan the event.

UPCOMING MEETUPS

RECENT MEETUPS

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Our September 7th meetup: Josef Spjut On Augmented Reality User Experience — The Encroaching Future

As augmented reality (AR) moves from prototype to product, we need to begin thinking about how we can integrate AR into our daily lives. If done poorly, AR has the potential to bring severe distraction and removal from the real world alongside the many potential benefits. Josef will present a few early prototype applications designed to reduce distraction, including AR for wayfinding, augmented online shopping, and ideas for annotating the world around us.

Our December 8th meetup: Jay Dawkins — How technology is shaping participatory democracy

Technology is transforming public dialog in alarming and unintended ways — a stark contrast to the optimism of the early web. What would technology supporting a healthy dialog look like?

Our November 17th meetup: Steven King — Emerging technologies for public storytelling

How is storytelling changing, as the technologies for delivering stories change so rapidly? How should technology change, as it becomes so deeply intertwined with storytelling?

Our September 29th meetup: Jason Broughton — Revitalizing UX at LexisNexis

How does a successful knowledge company built on software products pivot toward a more agile, responsive, and user-centered way of working?

Our Dec 5 meetup: David Kaber of NC State — Understanding emotions in human-robot interaction

In many applications of contemporary technology, emotional impacts on users can be just as important as functional outcomes. How can we reliably measure and understand human emotional states in interactive systems?

VENUE

Our meetups happen at Duke Energy Hall in the James B. Hunt Library on NCSU’s Centennial Campus, with a few exceptions.

To get to the meetup by:

foot: If you enter the first floor of the Library from Partners Way, head up the yellow stairs and Duke Energy Hall is on your left. If you enter the second floor from the Oval, Duke Energy Hall is on your immediate right.
bus: NCSU Wolfline buses service the Hunt Library on several routes. See the full system map (PDF) or the real-time bus tracking map. Go into the Library through the entrance by the bus stop and head up the yellow stairs; Duke Energy Hall is on your left.
car: park in the pay lot directly across from the Library entrance on Partners Way. The cost is two dollars per hour; have your credit card ready. Go into the Library entrance and up the yellow stairs; Duke Energy Hall is on your left.