Welcome to the UI/UX Community of Practice!

We are excited to have you here. Our community is dedicated to fostering collaboration, learning, and growth in the field of UI/UX design. Please follow the steps below to get started and integrate smoothly into our community.

📆 Meeting Schedule

When We Meet

• Wednesdays at 6:00pm Pacific Time (except for the first week of every month, and holidays)

Upcoming Meetings

November 2024

• Nov 06: All-Leads Meeting (no UI/UX CoP Meeting)
• Nov 13: Career Development: Interview Prep (Technical skills based)
• Nov 20: End of the year Town Hall
• Nov 27: Office Hours: Thanksgiving edition 🍂🍗🦃

December 2024

• The UI/UX CoP will be taking a break in December 🍁❄️☃️
• See you in January!🎆🎉

January 2025

• Jan 08 - Office Hours & Icebreaker activity
• Jan 15 - Career Development: Interview Prep (Technical skills based)
• Jan 22 - TBD
• Jan 29 - Fireside Chat: Getting real world experience for your Portfolios!

✅ Getting Started

Step 1. Complete General Onboarding

If you haven't attended Hack for LA onboarding, please read the Guide for New Volunteers, and register for an upcoming session before joining the community of practice.

Step 2. Join Communication Channels

After you've finished your Hack for LA general onboarding join other UI/UX peeps in your community of practice.

1. Join the ui-ux Slack channel
2. Introduce yourself. You can use the template below:

Hi My name is _____ and I am looking forward to joining the UI/UX community of practice.

Step 3. Familiarize Yourself with our Processes and Tools

At Hack For LA and the UI/UX CoP we use specific tools and processes to contribute and keep track of progress. You don't need to be an expert in any of these to join but it helps to familiarize yourself with them before getting started.

1. Github
   • Get Started Documentation
2. Kanban Board
   • What is Kanban?
   • What is a Kanban board and how to use it
3. Agile Framework
   • What is Agile?.
4. Figma
   • Figma for Beginners Youtube videos

Step 4. Join the CoP Meetings  

1. Join our weekly UI/UX Community of Practice meeting Wednesday at 6 pm PST via Zoom.
2. Participate in discussions and activities during meetings.

Step 5. Engage and Contribute

1. Review the current Open Roles and start contributing to projects or the CoP
   • Design
   • Research
   • Content
2. Get started on a Guide
3. Create your own UX Experience Profile to keep track of your progress.

📚 Additional Resources

The UI/UX Community of Practice is one of many. See all of our Communities of Practice

🤝 Support and Assistance

We will be implementing a support ticketing system soon. In the meantime, if you have any questions or need help, please reach out in the ui-ux Slack Channel or join us during our CoP meeting on Zoom.

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