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Let's talk about what it means to work in UX (… or we could talk about what it means to build a community around the Asian drama watching experience).

This past month, we started talking about foundational UX, agile UX, different design processes and design teams at different maturity levels. It was a lot to follow on Discord. So let's make that our monthly focus in July. 

Join us for an open conversation about what it means to work in UX and how it differs from team to team, company to company. 

The San Gabriel Valley UX (SGVUX) is a local design community organized by DIA Design Guild, an inclusive design collective aimed to empower designers by providing resources, events, mentorship, and more.

What does it mean to work in UX?

Invite a friend. Bring a drink to show off.

Hey everyone, today's happy hour topic is: 

Done something interesting? Finally found a job offer? Let us know! We'd love to hear you share.

As with all of our SGVUX events, please: 

 We rarely have full visibility of what another is going through. 

. We all cope and manage life in different ways. 

 Everyone should have the chance to speak if they want - if not, that is also ok.

Happy Hour Tuesday

Hello everyone! Join us for SGVUX's next event as we journey map the Asian drama experience!

The UX of Asian Dramas

• What's your favorite color? (Yes, we had to ask it...) 

, the design agency behind SGVUX, has lots of new faces join the 

Stop by and hear about the projects we're working on and the things we learn outside of the classroom. DIA Design Guild provides a safe, casual setting to build your UX skills on real-world challenges.

​The San Gabriel Valley UX (SGVUX) is a local design community organized by DIA Design Guild, an inclusive design collective aimed to empower designers by providing resources, events, mentorship, and more.

September Social

 We rarely have full visibility of what another is going through.

. We all cope and manage life in different ways.

Join us this October for an overview of how designers use Github for non-development workflows.

​​The San Gabriel Valley UX (SGVUX) is a local design community organized by DIA Design Guild, an inclusive design collective aimed to empower designers by providing resources, events, mentorship, and more.

Using Github for UX

This November, join us for an informal discussion about privacy.

Grace Lau and Katherine Chen will be conducting an exploration into the good and bad design patterns of privacy and data collection, including cookie consent prompts, push notifications, permission requests, and third-party tracking. 

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​​​The San Gabriel Valley UX (SGVUX) is a local design community organized by DIA Design Guild, an inclusive design collective aimed to empower designers by providing resources, events, mentorship, and more.

Privacy UX and Dark Patterns

NOTE: Please use this Google Meet link to enter Happy Hour: 

In a conversation with our host Grace Lau, 

 will be sharing his journey into product management in the games industry.

Product Management in Games 

Match up with someone from the industry and talk about your careers! We'll be in smaller breakout rooms to chat. You’ll meet with different designers, researchers, dev, tech professionals to talk about yourself and learn about your peers.

Peer Mentoring

No matter what stage your project is in, work or passion, we're a "community of strangers and friends" to give critique, evaluate, discuss and give feedback to help you on your project. These discussions will help presenters talk through, learn, and iterate on whatever they're working on. 

Don't know how to give critique? We'll go over a few basics of design critique to frame the conversation.

The San Gabriel Valley UX (SGVUX) is a local design community organized by DIA Design Guild, an inclusive design collective aimed to empower designers by providing resources, events, mentorship, and more. SGVUX meetups are a safe, casual conversation space for designers, developers, product and project managers to gather. 

SGVUX Monthly: May 2022

As a UX practitioner, Grace Lau has been doing information architecture, user research, and design for the past 14 years. Over the years, she's developed a certain style on how she runs user interview sessions. Whether she has the skills to masquerade as a user researcher is, well, another matter...

Join us this June's UX meetup, observe and critique Grace as she conducts a generative research interview. She'll be interviewing Debbie Lau, a nurse who happens to be her sister, on information challenges a nurse faces during COVID.

As a safe space for learning, we'll be learning about how to give feedback on a user research critique and offer actionable advice to help you hone your craft.

Let's Talk Research: A User Research Critique

How do you keep track of all things that happen in your life? How do you manage "adulting"?

Never mind the amount of information that is produced everyday around the world for public consumption, what about all the information that you consume, create, and manage for yourself, for:

This month's UX event is a quick introduction into personal knowledge management and an open discussion of how people manage their lives. Grace and Justin will also share what they've done to keep track of their lives, work, etc.

Ways to manage your sanity: Intro to personal knowledge management

This month's topic is... Anything goes! Come on by and chat with us about what you've been up to and any projects you're doing.

Anything goes

It's been a really long time since the local UX community in the Los Angeles area has met up in person. And frankly, we don't really know how comfortable people will be to meet in person. Guess we'll find out!

The San Gabriel Valley User Experience Meetup is hosting our first in-person UX meetup since March 2020 over dim sum! 

Being that it's dim sum, we're meeting Saturday morning as early as the restaurant opens. Expect a small wait. 

Please RSVP so that Grace has an accurate headcount. 

If you've never had dimsum before, don't fret! We'll cover the first-timer's experience of dim sum, from noisy Chinese restaurants, waiting in lines, chasing after waiters (Sea Harbour doesn't do carts). 

If you have allergies, you are warned. Dimsum is not friendly for people with gluten, nut, soy, and shrimp allergies. 

If we are seated before you arrive, we'll voluntell someone to stand by the door to direct you to our table(s). 

If you arrive early and no one's been seated yet, look for Grace, Justin, or Kao. We'll have expectant and friendly expressions as we search the faces of people waiting outside for familiar faces. If we've never met before or wouldn't be able to recognize us behind face masks, we may hold SGVUX signs. 

Payment is expected when you arrive. No refunds. Any proceeds will benefit DIA Design Guild and supports the overhead expenses of maintaining the pro-bono apprentice program and our monthly events. 

Let's talk dimsum and UX: A casual catch up in the SGV

Hello, DIA crew! We're about to have our first hangout in Temple City on Sat., Oct. 22, 2022. 

Anyone new or already affiliated with DIA is welcome to join us for lunch and boba afterwards. You'll get the opportunity to network and to know the wonderful people who make up our agency and program. 

Camellia Square has a lot of lunch and dessert options around here, so we'll update on the exact restaurant as we approach the 22. 

1st DIA Hangout: LA Edition

Hey everyone, it's the last SGVUX hangout for 2022 before we go on a winter hiatus! Come join us and eat some delicious food at Blossom Market Hall in San Gabriel while we discuss winter plans and holiday celebrations. 

There's different vendors selling food here but we're eyeing 

 since they're leaving the plaza later this month. 

Meet at the entrance with the stairs next to the parking lot.

Last SGVUX Meetup of the Year: Lunch @ Blossom Market Hall

The month of March brings us a number of great conferences that we're attending. From World IA Day Los Angeles, to CSUN's assistive tech conference (March 14-17), to IAC23 (March 28-April 1, New Orleans), there are plenty of topics to inspire us and share what we've learned. 

Bring it in and let's pool together things that we've learned this past month. 

Won't be able to make this date/time? Register anyway. 

SGVUX#37 Conference Redux

With summer approaching, we are planning to meet outdoors and enjoy the weather. Most importantly, we are going to have some fun! 

Pasadena Outdoor Escape Game: Explosive Escape is on our radar for the month of May. Yes, you heard it. It is an outdoor escape game in Pasadena. Unlike regular escape room games, this one provides routes, clues, challenges, and stories in exploring the past and the present of Pasadena.  The goal of this game is to stop a nuclear apocalypse through the eyes of the greatest minds of the 1930s.

You have the option of either buying the game ticket yourself or letting SGVUX do it for you.

By purchasing your ticket through SGVUX, you're not only saving yourself the time and trouble but also helping a volunteer group fund future events. 

We'll meet at Republik Coffee Lounge for brunch first

SGVUX#38: Outdoor Escape Room in Pasadena

Hello! It's been a few months since we last had an in-person meetup. So let's see if we can get this going again. 

This month, we're meeting at the Golden Deli in San Gabriel. It's known as the best place to get pho in the San Gabriel Valley (source unknown, verified by yours truly).

Let's talk about what's going on in your world of UX (work, projects, bootcamp, etc) over a big bowl of Vietnamese beef rice noodles. 

Tickets cover the estimated cost of food and tips ($20). Any remains will be donated to DIA Design Guild for planning and hosting. 

 (SGVUX) is a local design community organized by DIA Design Guild, a California nonprofit aimed to empower designers by providing resources, events, mentorship, and more. SGVUX meetups are a safe, casual conversation space for designers, developers, product and project managers to gather.

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SGVUX#39: Let's talk about UX over pho

Summer

We'll read aloud through a shared screen. You do not need to buy the book. You do not need to read before a meeting. You do not need to read aloud if you do not want to. You do not need to come to every meeting.

We'll read around two chapters per session (I hope!), around 35 pages. We'll discuss ideas and concepts as we go along.

Read Aloud Book Club

Previously known as the SGVUX Happy Hour, we are now setting this up as the monthly community hangout and networking. Hosted on Google Meet. Open to public, and apprentices and mentors of the DIA Design Guild. 