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Are you a UX, IA, UI, IxD, usability, visual or other sort of designer?

Come out for a design practice workshop on March 1st, from 7–9pm at Genuine Joe Coffeehouse (it’s on Anderson Lane up the road from the Alamo Drafthouse Village). We’ll be trying out a different design critique practice exercise, dissecting usability, information architecture, interaction design and other user experience issues and then sketching out solutions.

ProductCamp is Austin's premiere event for Product Management, Product Marketing, and Marketing professionals to teach to, learn from, and network with each other. Past ProductCamps have attracted hundreds of professionals from all over Texas and the U.S.
 
This year we will be holding not one but two ProductCamp Austin events! ProductCamp Austin Spring 2010, on March 27th, will be Austin's 4th ProductCamp.   PCA Fall 2010 will be held on August 7th.

ProductCamp Austin presents the second ProductParty Austin - a networking happy-hour for Austin Product Management and Marketing professionals that brings together People, Products, and Pitchers!

Join us on Wednesday, February 24th from 6-9pm in Gabriel's Cafe at the AT&T Conference Center on the University of Texas campus.
The evening will also include the first opportunity for you to pitch your proposed session for the upcoming March 27th ProductCamp.

I lump a lot of things into the broad heading of design: user interfaces, usability testing, graphics and visuals, information architecture, interaction design, user experience design, web site design, application design, even industrial design, software documentation, tutorials, training and APIs.

Here's a list of groups that might interest you. Please, post others (and corrections) in the comments.

Are you a UX, IA, UI, IxD, usability, visual or other sort of designer? Come out for a design practice workshop on February 15th, from 7–9pm at Genuine Joe Coffeehouse (it’s on Anderson Lane up the road from the Alamo Drafthouse Village). We’ll be trying out a design critique practice exercise, picking apart issues of usability, information architecture, interaction design and other aspects of their user experience.

SXSW Interactive has grown so much in the last decade, it feels harder to sort out what to go to and what to skip, but this year I feel there are a few that are ones that can't be missed:

Are you a UX, IA, UI, IxD, usability, visual or other sort of designer? Come out for a design practice workshop! We'll be completing last week's design refinement practice exercise, refining brainstormed designs and critiquing their user experience and usability.

vi.to/practice-ux has the essay with the premise of these workshops.

We are DOWNTOWN this week! "Texas Coworking is located at 200 E. Sixth Street in downtown Austin. We are on the 3rd floor of the Hannig Row Building. On the sidewalk, you will see a wooden sign right above the entrance that says 'Hannig Row.' The downstairs entrance is a long lobby area with wood floors and several flat panel TVs along the wall. Walk in the door, and go to the elevator in the far right corner. We're on the 3rd floor. When you get off the elevator, hang an immediate left. "

Come a little early to get settled and get some coffee or a snack so we can start on time. I'll be there around 6:45pm to set up if you'd like to introduce yourself or discuss the meeting itself. Paper, markers and other materials will be provided.

Yesterday, CrisisCamps met in 12 cities across the country to continue work started the week previous in the first CrisisCamps after the Haitian earthquake. Crisis Commons had its origins in discussions by participants in Transparency 09 and Government Camp 2.0 in 2009, as a way for people with technology skills to get together during times of humanitarian or political crisis and help out with their skills and social networking.

Ron Evans (@deadprogram) shares his rules for social media.

1) find something cool: tweet it
2) learned something cool: blog it
3) mastered something cool: present on it

A simple recipe for gaining cred - Lynn

In contrast to last year's mellow SXSW Interactive Mixer in SF, the 2010 event was high-paced and, quite literally, packed into Slim's at 11th and Folsom.

too crowded for a good picture