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Past Events
2011 Mini-UPA Conference
2010 World Usability Day
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2009 World Usability Day
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Welcome to UPA Boston
The Boston Chapter of the Usability Professionals’ Association is a 501c6 nonprofit organization and is a highly active community for persons with individual and professional interests in usability, user experience design, and their many related fields. Membership is free, and we invite you to take advantage of all the benefits membership has to offer. These include access to job listings, networking opportunities, event notifications, collaboration projects, resume-building activities, and more:
Monthly Meetings
We hold eleven monthly meetings annually in a variety of locations throughout the greater Boston area from downtown to Framingham. Regardless of where you live or work, we’re likely to be within reach sometime during the year! Meetings feature lectures, demonstrations, jobs discussions, tours of host companies’ proprietary labs and more! Members are invited to host and present at monthly meetings.
Quarterly Workshops
Specialized Saturday workshops given by members provide in-depth half- and full-day tutorials on a variety of topics from research techniques to mobile device design.
UPA Boston's 10th Annual Conference
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
Hyatt Regency Cambridge
The tenth annual Boston Mini UPA conference was held at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge. People came to hear and discuss critical topics in usability and user-centered design with practitioners, students, and experts in the field. Whether a newcomer, a seasoned usability professional, or member of a product team interested in usability, this conference offers unique content and one-of-a-kind learning opportunities. Learn more...
World Usability Day Boston
Boston's contributions to this global event are up to you! World Usability Day offers members the opportunity to design activities and educational experiences that introduce usability, accessibility, and design tenets and techniques to the public. Interested in having an impact? Being a usability ambassador? Email volunteer@upaboston.org
World Usability Day 2011 is Thursday, November 10, 2011. Learn more...
UPA Boston is what you make of it! We invite you to join today to learn from others and to share your vision!