We discuss new trends in the field and act of communication! Our focus is on discussing cutting edge and future digital engagements: their design, interactions, application, dev process, platform and the like.

The group will discuss topics like: IA, UX, Web & App design, Best Practices, New Technologies and much much more. The group will have a focus on designing for the web and mobile.

We will talk shop and share thoughts on IA, IxD, UI, UX and Mobile.

About Us: NY Cultural Tech has expanded its focus as of March 2013 to more broadly delve into the innovative intersection of tech and culture.  It started out as a cross-disciplinary group for practicing technologists (coders, info architects, developers) focused on the advancement of emerging tech from within the domains of public knowledge.  Our participatory group is a new-media catalyst for those involved with museums, libraries, educational institutions, government, non-profits, and outwar …

Huge Events are open to anyone who has interest in UX, design, agency life and more. Join us for a fun evening of refreshments, networking and talks by design professionals and leaders in the industry.

Huge Events are open to anyone who has interest in agency life, graphic design, visual design, basically all things design and more. Join us for a fun evening of refreshments, networking and talks by design professionals and leaders in the industry.

Huge Events are open to anyone who has interest in digital strategy, UX, design, agency life and more. Join us for a fun evening of refreshments, networking and talks by design professionals and leaders in the industry.

Hello information designers. This group will discuss the evolution of information design, particularly as it relates to graphic design, user experience and communications. We'll do this by showcasing some amazing work from NYC based information designers. We'd love to get your input for ideas as well!

UX/UI, HTML5, CSS3, Design and Development. We cover it all, and bring you the voices of the web industry. CASCADE SF, San Francisco's chapter, has been a smashing success. We are now bringing the knowledge to NYC.

Unigroup is the oldest and largest Unix User's Group (Unix/Linux/BSD) serving the Greater New York City Regional Area since the early 1980s. Unigroup has been serving the NYC Unix Community for over 30 years! Unigroup is a not-for-profit, vendor and platform neutral, member funded, volunteer organization. Unigroup holds regular and special event meetings throughout the year on technical topics relating to Unix and the Unix User Community. Most Unigroup meetings are open to the public! Unigroup p …

To inspire and help designers pursue, do, and succeed at what they love. We are building a strong, passionate community for current NYC designers either at startups or looking to join startups, to inspire, collaborate, and mentor each other. We'll have a mix of Speaker Sessions, Happy Hours, and other fun events to help you excel in your design career. Note: This group is for professional designers and is not open to entrepreneurs, engineers, design enthusiasts, or recruiters. Please do not appl …

Design Founders: A community for designers turned entrepreneurs. Whether you're a designer launching a tech startup, a clothing-line, a letterpress shop, or a non-profit, you're likely navigating the same challenges, and sharing the same goals, as other designers-turned-founders. Our goal is to connect designers who are creating new companies so we can exchange our shared experiences, challenges, best practices and resources. This group could also become a forum for sharing work in progress, c …

AnthroTech is for people in the New York City area interested in using anthropological and ethnographic techniques in technological fields -- especially user experience design, online community management and customer development. We bring academic anthropologists and non-academic professionals together to cross-pollinate our respective fields.

This group is for anyone interested in the actionable applications of Lean UX en route to building products customer's love. Once a customer has come across your product, your UX is the make or break backbone of your business. Make it awesome, Make it Lean!

Having completed over 1.3 Million hours of development and currently completing over 3 man years of work each week (and rapidly growing), we're looking to share some of our experience and insight that all that project work has earned us. We value transparency are looking to share some of the valuable lessons we've learned and how you can incorporate some of our process and approach to improve the ROI from any development project. We are looking to meet with businesses and have an open dialogue a …

Welcoming startup folks and professionals in UX, IA, product, design, etc. to be one another's usability testers as well as discuss UX trends, best practices, and strategies.

Join us! The first Windows 8 app event will be announced soon.  The New York Windows 8 App Development Group is modeled after the success of the Boston Windows 8 App development group.  (www.windows8boston.com) This NY Win 8 group is Focused on Windows 8 app development and everything and everyone you need to know about Windows 8 style apps. Take advantage of the need for Windows 8 app developers, designers, user experience experts and solution architects. Take your existing skills and create Wi …

NYC UX Acrobatics primary focus is the varied facets of UX design, research and usability. Our aim is to create monthly 'UX themed' workshop style meetings where members work with each other learning, discovering and networking on all things UX. Potential topics: paper prototyping, experience maps, user research and testing, persona dev, a/b testing, front-end best practices, RWD (Responsive Web Design), PET Design (Persuasion, Emotion, and Trust Design), competitive analysis, sketching UX, cont …

Thoughtworks is a home for anyone interested in user experience design and the development of technology products. Join us for talks, workshops, and new perspectives on UX, and meet others in the experience design community. TW NYC is located at 99 Madison, floor 15.

Natural user interface (NUI) is about to take the world as the newest revolution in computing and devices. The next tech rock stars are the people developing NUI and the businesses they envision will be the next hot tech start-ups. We are those people that are changing the world and the way people interact and experience things through our projects, products, and start-ups. We use voice control, voice recognition, facial recognition, eye tracking, gesture, motion capture, emotional response, sen …

The Design Task Force for Global Change is an interdisciplinary team that addresses the citizen usability of software and mobile applications with organizations such as The Guardian Project, Open Internet Tools Project, Witness.org, Georgia Law Society Project, and many more. Comprised of designers and open source developers, The Task Force meets semi-regularly to discuss the UX/UI/design strengths and weaknesses of current software projects in development; discuss software usability from a desi …

This is a group for anyone interested in Windows development including Desktop, Tablet and Mobile using Microsoft and Open Source Technologies. Emphasis will be placed on Windows Store Apps using XAML/C# and HTML5/JavaScript. All skills levels are welcome. The Group meets on the second Thursday of every month at Microsoft's NYC office. Attendance is limited by the size of the room we are given. So, members are encouraged to sign up early in order to ensure seating availability.

The Optimizing Mobile Apps Meetup is for anyone with a passion for mobile metrics, mobile user experience, conversion optimization, increasing video consumption as well as performing A/B testing on a mobile app - This is a group who shares best practices about optimizing mobile apps - specific topics include mobile UX case studies, tools, latest lessons learned and of course networking! There will be plenty to share and learn about for those from agencies to stand-alone app owners to ecommerce t …

Hey everybody (who likes front-end technology)! We're new to the city and psyched to meet other UX experts in the area. We'd love to meet up in our midtown office space, or over drinks at a nearby watering hole. Looking forward to discussing the latest trends in the front-end world and meeting some new like-minded devs.

Curious to know about Google Glass? The Glass API has just been released and first batch of devices are being shipped. Here's your chance to ask questions to several Google Glass Pioneers in the NYC area about Glass and what's on the horizon for wearable glass technology. Designers and developers, whether you're just curious about Glass or are waiting for your pair to land on your doorstep in the near future, come join us. Note: This event is hosted by Google Glass enthusiasts in the area and …

This is a group for people affected by type 1 diabetes whose careers are dedicated to technology, engineering, data, or design.