Intro to the SF Design Community

A presentation to help a new or future UX designer discover the local resources to further their involvement in the design community.

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1. David Fung Senior UX Designer, Goodreads INTRO TO THE SF DESIGN COMMUNITY
2. INTRO TO SF DESIGN COMMUNITY A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ME ‣ Designer with over 10 years of experience in interactive, mobile, desktop, and print (a long time ago!)
 ‣ Right now, I am constantly iterating and developing new ways to help you find your next favorite book. (@goodreads)

3. INTRO TO SF DESIGN COMMUNITY AGENDA ‣ Key Events ‣ Companies ‣ Presenting Yourself ‣ Career Paths
4. INTRO TO SF DESIGN COMMUNITY KEY EVENTS CONFERENCES HACKATHONS MEETUPS
5. INTRO TO SF DESIGN COMMUNITY CONFERENCES
6. INTRO TO SF DESIGN COMMUNITY UPCOMING CONFERENCES ‣ Startup Weekend Education SF: New School Models
 May 16th ‣ UX Strategies Summit
 June 10th ‣ Nielsen Norman Group Usability Week SF
 June 21st ‣ Techcrunch Disrupt
 Sept 8th ‣ Digital Design & Innovation Summit
 Sept 25th ‣ An Event Apart
 Nov 17th CONFERENCES
7. INTRO TO SF DESIGN COMMUNITY HACKATHONS
8. INTRO TO SF DESIGN COMMUNITY UPCOMING HACKATHONS ‣ Highground Hacker: Urban Hack
 May 3rd ‣ EcoHackWorld
 May 9th ‣ Angelhack San Francisco
 May 10th ‣ HackSummit
 June 14th http://www.quora.com/San-­‐Francisco-­‐Bay-­‐Area/What-­‐are-­‐the-­‐hackathons-­‐taking-­‐place-­‐in-­‐the-­‐Bay-­‐Area-­‐during-­‐2012-­‐2014 HACKATHONS
9. INTRO TO SF DESIGN COMMUNITY MEETUPS
10. INTRO TO SF DESIGN COMMUNITY MEETUPS ‣ iXDA-SF
 meetup.com/IxDA-San-Francisco ‣ AIGA-SF
 aigasf.org ‣ LeanUX
 meetup.com/Lean-UX-San-Francisco ‣ CASCADE
 meetup.com/cascadesf ‣ BayCHI
 baychi.org
 ! ! MEETUPS
11. INTRO TO SF DESIGN COMMUNITY COMPANIES,
 ACCERLATATORS &
 RECRUITING
12. INTRO TO SF DESIGN COMMUNITY INCUBATORS AND ACCELERATORS ‣ Y Combinator ‣ Designer Fund: Bridge ‣ Techstars ‣ 500 Startups ‣ Yetizen ‣ Better Ventures ‣ AngelPad
13. INTRO TO SF DESIGN COMMUNITY RECRUITING COMPANIES ‣ Creative Group ‣ Aquent ‣ 24/7 ‣ Vonchurch ‣ Giant
14. INTRO TO SF DESIGN COMMUNITY CAREER PATHS
15. INTRO TO SF DESIGN COMMUNITY WHAT ARE EMPLOYERS LOOKING FOR IN AN
 ENTRY LEVEL UX DESIGNER?
16. INTRO TO SF DESIGN COMMUNITY CAREER PATHS ‣ Agency ‣ Startups ‣ Big company ‣ Freelance ‣ Continuous learning

17. STARTUP UX DESIGNER WHAT IS UX? User Flows Personas Wireframes Ethnographic Research Storyboards Prototyping HTML/CSS Qualitative Research Visual Design Marketing Usability Testing Product Design Quantitative Research Interaction Design Motion Graphics Workshop & Presentations Strategy Interviews Surveys Information Architecture Content Strategy Heuristics
18. SERVICE UX DESIGNER WHAT IS UX? User Flows Personas Wireframes Ethnographic Research Storyboards Prototyping HTML/CSS Qualitative Research Visual Design Marketing Usability Testing Product Design Quantitative Research Interaction Design Motion Graphics Workshop & Presentations Strategy Interviews Surveys Information Architecture Content Strategy Heuristics
19. BIG COMPANY UX DESIGNER WHAT IS UX? User Flows Personas Wireframes Ethnographic Research Storyboards Prototyping HTML/CSS Qualitative Research Visual Design Marketing Usability Testing Product Design Quantitative Research Interaction Design Motion Graphics Workshop & Presentations Strategy Interviews Surveys Information Architecture Content Strategy Heuristics
20. MY ROLES WHAT IS UX? User Flows Personas Wireframes Ethnographic Research Storyboards Prototyping HTML/CSS Qualitative Research Visual Design Marketing Usability Testing Product Design Quantitative Research Interaction Design Motion Graphics Workshop & Presentations Strategy Interviews Surveys Content Strategy Heuristics Information Architecture
21. INTRO TO SF DESIGN COMMUNITY CLASSES AND TALKS ‣ General Assembly ‣ Dev Bootcamp ‣ Founders Institute ‣ SV Forum ‣ Startup Grind ‣ Parisoma
22. INTRO TO SF DESIGN COMMUNITY RESOURCES ‣ Designer News
 news.layervault.com ‣ Design / UX on Medium
 medium.com/design-ux ‣ Smashing Magazine
 smashingmagazine.com/category/uxdesign/
23. INTRO TO SF DESIGN COMMUNITY #SHOWYOURWORK
24. INTRO TO SF DESIGN COMMUNITY PORTFOLIOS
25. INTRO TO SF DESIGN COMMUNITY PORTFOLIOS
26. INTRO TO SF DESIGN COMMUNITY FINDING WORK ‣ Through personal connections ‣ LinkedIn ‣ Krop ‣ Angellist ‣ Startup Jobs ‣ Simply Hired
27. INTRO TO SF DESIGN COMMUNITY GENERAL ASSEMBLY UX LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES ‣ UX Design Immersive (10 weeks full-time) ‣ UX Design Night/Weekend Course (12 weeks part-time)
28. INTRO TO SF DESIGN COMMUNITY KEEP IN TOUCH! Twitter: @cobradave Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/davidfung/
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