Taking Hyderabad UX community to Next Level

Taking Hyderabad UX community to Next Level

Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing at Hyderabad UX Community is now certainly at the highest peak with increasing number of events, groups, competitions, etc and we believe in taking these activities to the Global level.

Hyderabad UX meets started in March and the enthusiasm has spread to several groups. We are happy to see such enthusiasm. In continuation to our previous meet on 23 August, were everyone showed a great support for Usability Professionals Association (UPA) Hyderabad chapter, it was decided to formally launch it.

UPA Hyderabad is a chartered non profit organization registered with UPA International . Currently the UPA has over 2500 members, worldwide. Chapters are located in the US , India , United Kingdom , Canada , China , Germany , Hong Kong , New Zealand , Sweden

UPA Hyderabad Launch at -

Friday 13th Oct 2006, 2:30pm to 7:30pm at
"The Chip" auditorium, Cyber Towers,
Madhapur, Hyderabad, India

Agenda:

Chief guest -
Smt. P. Sabitha Reddy, Hon'ble Minister for I.T
Smt. K. Ratna Prabha, IT Secretary of Andhra Pradesh
UPA Hyderabad Chapter Launch Keynote speakers
Dr. Eric Schaffer ( CEO Humanfactors International ) Apala Lahiri Chavan ( VP, Humanfactors International )

Topics on HCI & Cognition, On-the-spot Design competition, Workshop on Usability Technique.

Personal Web site Design competition

Announcing a competition to recognize aesthetics and usability of personnel web sites. Competition results will be declared on 13th Oct. Categories are:. A] UPA-Web Personality: Best personal websites for All India level & AP State level.B] UPA-Blog Star: Best Blog on HCI, All India level.Check upahyderabad site for details.

Register for this competition & event and reserve your seat. Event Details will be published in leading Indian and International news paper, design magazines and UPA magazine.

UPA Hyderabad Introduction

Welcome to the Hyderabad Chapter of Usability Professionals' AssociationThis chapter unfurls a new beginning in the area of Usability to promote the principles of usable design in India. It successfully brings together User Interface designers, Interaction Designers, Usability engineers, Human factors engineers, Tech/doc writers, QA testers, Developers, Students, researchers, consultants and all those working for HCI to network, share and develop novel concepts .

A group of Usability professionals from Oracle, Kanbay, Convergys, Microsoft, Cordys etc have initiated the formation of Hyderabad UPA chapter and invites you to join this chapter to promote usability practices in India. Oracle along with UPA hyderabad are actively pursuing UPA Board of Directors to reduce the membership fees for Developing countries.Right now we are looking for volunteers for World Usability Day 2006 (14th Nov) and companies to host monthly UPA meets. If you are interested to share your experience in HCI then you can be our speaker or Host.You can reach us through email at upahyderabad@gmail.com.

All our monthly meets are free for everyone. Check our recent meets. We thank UPA Board of Directors and the UPA Chapters Co-director - Dave Mitropoulos-Rundus in helping us form the India UPA Chapter.