South West Usability Group: User Experience Network

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Chris McEvoy
Chris works for Nationwide Building Society and has been designing and building applications for humans over the past 20 years.
Louise Ferguson
Louise Ferguson is a UK-based technologist, user experience consultant and writer.
Neil Suffield
Neil currently works for the Environment Agency in Bath. His interests include HCI/Usability/IA, online Geographical Information Systems and the development of Internet applications.

August 03, 2004

User Experience Network

If you have got a spare minute or two during your day then why not start reading the uxnet blog?

Here are some of things people are saying about UXnet:

Beth Mazur: I've been waiting for Lou to go first, and he has ...more

Lou Rosenfeld: That's just part of my wish list of big and small things that would be served by better coordination of UX-related associations, and by providing infrastructure to connect UX practitioners in their local communities. To that end, a bunch of us volunteer do-gooders recently soft-launched UXnet, the User Experience Network. ...more

Donna Maurer: Looks interesting and has the potential to offer a lot to the UX field, with our wide variety of overlapping disciplines...more

Louise Ferguson: There´s been the need for a while now, and I know Lou has been planning this for some time. It´s finally off the ground. All volunteers who wish to contribute to development welcome. ...more

Adam Greenfield: I can find no fault with the new UXNet User Experience network, whose raison d'etre is to provoke "cooperation and collaboration among UX-related organizations and individuals." Interdisciplinary and eclectic is definitely the way to go. I'll be curious to see where they take this. ...more

Peter Morville: For me, user experience design is a big hive: a dynamic, multi-dimensional space where there's still plenty of room to build new boxes and draw new arrows, at least for the next ten years. (See Also UXnet) ...more