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 …

This workshop series will cover the fundamentals of design through short expert talks and interactive design exercises; it will focus on how to design products that meet users’ needs in as easy and delightful a way as possible. The free workshops, which are only for students, will meet every other Tuesday at 6:30pm. Design is about creating something to achieve a goal. Maybe you want to design an iPhone app to help people eat more healthily. Or maybe you want to create a piece of public policy …

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 …

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.

Making Android apps more beautiful. This is a group for professional, novice and aspiring Android app designers.

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.

Are you a hacker, designer, or startup founder? Do you like playing ping pong? Then this is the group for you. We get together to talk about tech startups, discuss our latest software hacks, or get UI design advice; all over friendly games of table tennis. FAQ: Q: Why only founders, hackers, and designers? A: So we all have something in common Q: What if I suck at ping pong? A: That's ok. Noone's going to make fun of you. Everyone sucked at some point, right? Q: Do I need to bring my own ping p …

Welcome to NYC-CHI, the NYC chapter of SIG-CHI (Special Interest Group - Computer Human Interaction www.sigchi.org/). We hold UX-focused events and have an active mailing list to service the NYC region. We have over 1900 active members in all aspects of HCI, including information architects, interaction designers, user experience designers, service designers, product and museum experience designers, usability practitioners, digital librarians, user interface designers and UI developers. We're t …

A group to discuss digital user experience (UX) both on web and mobile platforms. Meetings could cover research or innovative real world examples & case studies Design topics can include (but not limited to) interaction design, UI design, mobile app design (iPhone, iPad, Android), usability, site stickiness, human-computer interaction, value of entertainment factor beyond core conversions, etc. From the data side of things we'd like to have discussions around using data to drive and measure UX …

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 …

Keep practicing UX. Give and get feedback from other graduates of GA's User Experience Design course.

UX School's mission is to help UX designers build their skills and portfolio, through hands-on workshops, one-on-one critiques, and lectures from leaders in the field.

A group for anyone working on or interested in Apps for Kids in New York City. Apps as in interactive media for phones or tablets, iPads, iPhones, Android devices or on other platforms. Designers, developers, writers, voice actors, composers, marketers, investors, ... are all welcome. There's an "Apps for Kids" Meet-Up in Silicon Valley with 600+ members , and no equivalent in NYC. Let's see if we can start something here too :)

Talk about anything and everything app related such as features, designing or geek out on code. Meetups will consist of talks from Developers, Designers, Project Managers, etc.

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 …

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 guys.  This group is slowly being wound down.  The plan is to build up this new group... http://www.meetup.com/android-developers-nyc/ Head over that way.  I'm going to be co-organizing that one, and try to implement some of the ideas we were working on with the "Workshop".  Good stuff coming in the near future. The old description... The focus of the group is still being defined.  There are multiple "Android Developers" meetups, but we wanted to do something to support devs working on r …

Brooklyn. User Experience. Happy hour. We meet irregularly--three or four times a year. And it's fun. Really, is there much more to say?

This group is dedicated to online services that tap into the sharing economy. Dubbed Collaborative Consumption, this economy leverages our social connections to share goods and services. Come share with us. Format is three tech startups on a panel with moderator.

Welcome! This group is being started to specifically bring together members of the iPhone/iPad development community who would like to share their expertise within the iOS Software Development Kit. We would like to present specific topics in iOS and Cocoa to learn different coding techniques, debugging tips and new technological advancements. Whether you are a first time iOS developer, or an experienced professional you are invited to exchange ideas and share your knowledge, advice and experienc …

You know java. But do you know Android? Are you sure you do? Our goal is to get you building apps by providing the fundamentals. We don't want to slow you down, we just want to make sure you are going in the right direction.

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 …

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.

We're a group of SEO professionals who enjoy hanging out together and sharing cutting edge SEO tactics (sometimes in that order, sometimes not). We have the back of our members and take the time to get to know them on a personal and professional level. We meet once a month and our members have access to the most influential SEO network in North America. If you are looking for a new job or need help learning vital SEO skills, there's definitely someone in our group who can help you out. We're i …

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 …