On August 23rd, UX Week 2011 kicks off at The Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF in San Francisco. If you’re not familiar with this event, picture this: 4 days of epic design and user experience presentations where design professionals from all over the world congregate to learn from one another, share the latest ideas and tools, and leave with shiny new skills and concepts. The speaker line up and workshop schedule are pretty spectacular, plus, the Onward Search San Francisco team will be there!
That’s an impressive event, right? If you’re all set to attend, we can’t wait to see you there. But if all that isn’t enough to motivate you to go, here are 10 more great reasons to attend UX Week 2011:
1. More UX and design inspiration than you can imagine.
Adaptive Path strives to “push the practice of experience design forward,” and this event is a glowing example of that mission. Watch the videos from UX Week 2010 to get an idea of what you’re in for.
2. You’ll be in great company.
UX Week has been attracting leading designers and innovative thinkers from all over the world for 9 years now. It’s the perfect environment to expand your creative horizons, bounce ideas off of like-minded people and pick up skills and perspective you can’t get anywhere else.
3. Onward Search San Francisco has a booth!
The San Francisco team will be hanging out at our booth all day on Thursday, the 25th. If you want to talk about all things UX, get connected with an amazing design talent, or discover the next step in your user experience career, the Onward Search booth is the place to be.
4. The impressive speakers.
The lineup of speakers this year is enough to attract any designer interested in learning from the greats. Speakers include Google UX Lead Jon Wiley, FoodSpotting founder Alexa Andrzejewski, esteemed members of the Adaptive Path Team, and so many more.
5. Keynote by Paul D. Miller (a.k.a. DJ Spooky)
All the UX Week fun kicks off with keynote from the sharp, creative force, known as DJ Spooky who, according to this Adaptive Path interview, can twist up your creative thinking like “brain yoga.”
6. The outstanding workshops.
The UX Week workshops are designed to give you hands on experience with concepts and challenges that apply directly to your design career. There’s a great selection of workshops to attend, so it may be tough to choose, but valuable takeaways are guaranteed no matter what.
7. Get tickets to attend Nightlife.
Onward Search is sponsoring at trip to Nightlife on Thursday night at the Academy of Sciences. It’s a mixture of music, creatures and cocktails – what’s not to love?
8. Location, Location, Location.
The event is taking place on UCSF’s new 43-acre life sciences campus for teaching and research. Located in commutable distance to downtown San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley, there will be plenty of fun entertainment for when you’re not immersed in the fantastic workshops and speakers.
9. Transporter App will get you there.
Adaptive Path’s Ljuba Miljkovic created the super cool Transporter app just for Bay Area riders of public transportation. This handy app will make getting to and from the event, plus all the nearby attractions, a breeze!
10. Bragging rights!
You’ll return to your place of work and local social circles with so much to talk about and share, your friends and co-workers will turn green with envy over everything you’ve learned. Who doesn’t like bragging every once in a while?
If all this hasn’t convinced you to attend, just call up anyone on the Onward Search San Francisco team to find out more!
