UXnet launches new site
UXnet, the user experience network, launched its new website this week, with some major improvements.
UXnet is a platform organisation that provides tools and resources for the user experience community. It works with a worldwide network of local ambassadors.
The new site, which has been more than a year in the making and now runs on WordPress, makes it far easier for the local ambassadors to profile the UX activities and landscape in their local areas.
Major attention has been put into the events calendar, which is now key the feature of the site: it has become a fledgling application that brings in events from all user experience disciplines and locales around the world.
Selected posts from the Putting People First blog are also — automatically — included in the UXnet news. News items from other sources will be included later on as well.
Even though as a board member of UXnet, I have been somewhat involved in this redesign, the site is really based on the hard work of Keith Instone, who squeezed much of the relaunch into his tight schedule. As Lou Rosenfeld wrote (and I totally agree with): “Keith is an incredible team player and hard worker who, in his positive and low-key way, successfully collaborates with a diverse collection of backgrounds and egos. Keith really is the model of what a user experience professional should be. So it’s not surprising that UXnet has named its volunteer award after him. Thank you, Keith!”
UXnet is currently in the process of expanding its vision and charter, and the website is designed to scale and enhance the organisation’s future activities.
So — and I am once again quoting Lou Rosenfeld here — if you’ve had a “wait-and-see” attitude about UXnet, this is a good time to take another look. And if you’re interested in participating as an “ambassador” for your area, we want you.
