Mary Specht
User Experience Designer, aspiring roboticist and hapless ballerina.

Gary Hustwit is screening his new documentary, Urbanized, about the design of cities. Invite all your cool design friends and we can go see it together.

We can grab some food/drinks around the area first at Fat Angel: http://www.fatangelsf.com/ on 1740 O’Farrell St. The director, Gary Hustwit, may drop by :).

Please buy your ticket in advance:...

After 5 years of excessive extravagance, I thought I would keep in fairly low key for my 26th Birthday. Thought we would grab some tapas and sangria at Picaro, then maybe some drinks afterwards.

From the website: SketchCamp — the un-conference focused on using sketching techniques for UX design. This year is our inaugural, and we are proud to be sponsored by ModCloth that generously made available their downtown San Francisco headquarters for the conference. We are working hard to bring together great speakers and organizing amazing...

Call 206 422 2888 if you have problems getting into the building.

The Designer Engineer Knowledge Exchange is a meetup where designers who want to learn how to code can meet with engineers who want to learn more about design.

This first meeting will be a purely informational, getting-to-know-each other style meeting.

On the agenda:

1. Coming up...

As of PDG #9, Product Design Guild will have been going on for exactly 6 months! We decided to hold a purely social gathering to celebrate all the amazing designers who we've managed to help over the last 6 months. This will also be the first Product Design Guild event that is completely open to the public!

So come along for dinner and drinks...

RSVP via Eventbrite: http://uxbookclubsfapril-efbevent.eventbrite.com

What is the best advanced book on human interface design? Quora says it is The Humane Interface by Jef Raskin. Join us on Tuesday, April 12th as we meet to discuss The Humane Interface with special guest moderator Aza Raskin.

The Humane Interface by Jef Raskin (Amazon:...

OK, fuck it, I'm going to HANG THIS SHIT UP.

The only way this dinner party is going to be practical is if we do it Iron Chef style. Eunji: Go shopping and pick up a random assortment of what looks delicious to you. I will roll into the kitchen at 6pm and completely improvise and entire fucking menu based on what you've bought.

This is...

pariSoma is welcoming us into their brand spanking new office spaces for the 7th Product Design Guild. For our newer members, pariSoma were actually our first hosts, way back in 2010 so we're excited to come back and see how they've expanded!

The schedule will be the same as always:

12 - 12:30 - Introductions
12:30 - 1:30 - Lunch
1:30 -...

Five minutes, 20 slides. What would you say? At every Ignite, 16 artists, technologists, thinkers, and personalities take the stage to answer this challenge. Our goal is to spark new conversations and collaborations across cultures and disciplines. (Previously Ignite Bay Area)

Please join us for yet another interesting, fun night of self-tracking presentations, sharing ideas, and showing tools. This time we are excited to be at design firm Adaptive Path in San Francisco.Our theme for this meetup will be self-tracking related to health and medicine. If you are tracking your health in any way, please come and share your...

This is the 3rd annual International Make Someone Feel Uncomfortable Day! Granted we all do this everyday, my friend and I decided to create an event for one lovely day when everyone can come together in doing what we love.

Invite all of your friends! Post any ideas you have to make your friends feel uncomfortable, or anything you did! Have fun,...

Just for fun, let's see how many people we can get to attend a worldwide Halloween! Please invite your friends! :)

Want to scare your friends? Go here to get your face Zombified for free --> http://tinyurl.com/getzombified

Happy Trick-or-treating!

Another month, another book club meeting. At 7PM on Monday, October 18th we will discuss Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age by Clay Shirky. Book club regular Xianhang Zhang will be moderating and he plan's to have Clay Skype in for a chat.

It's my birthday (week), and my roommate Lauren and I have been here about a month...the only thing missing is some good people to come visit.

We'll have some beer, wine, and assorted good foods from the neighborhood. Hope to see you there!

(by the way, we're 2 blocks from from the N Judah and off the 33, 37, and many other bus...

On 10/10/10 I'll be leaving the US for at least 6 months. If you want to meet up and wish me well on my journey I'll be having a small going away party at Mr. Smith's (near 7th and Market).

For the curious, my trip will be taking me through Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Taiwan, and...

What better way to celebrate the REAL start of summer in SF than with a hot 'n heavy Havana Nights fiesta! Despite the fact that none of us have maracas, frilly white shirts, or hips worthy of Ricky Martin.. we will more than make up for it with lots of tasty latino FOOD, RUM, and more!

What else are we celebrating, you ask? Well, Patti is...

Join us this month as we discuss How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer. Our friend Jared Zimmerman helped secure a great spot at his firm Autodesk. If you want to moderate please let me know!

The San Francisco UX Book Club will hold its next meeting on Wednesday, April 28th at 7PM at Parisoma 1436 Howard Street, San Francisco.

The meeting will focus on "Rework" by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson.
Amazon: http://bit.ly/auxpgT

Our moderator will be designer and start-up veteran Al Abut. Please come out whether you...

===Tentative Birthday Plans===
Dinner @ Mission Restaurant
Drinks @ Mission Bar
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June: ^^ Lynn is kidding herself - who knows where we'll end up? Plan for uncertainty:
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Aw, look how innocent ----------------------------------------------->
Lynn: guess where i went tonight
June: a strip club. two....

Eight Years of B|P. Four years of Exygy, One New Office BUILDING where these two companies now share space in producing uncommon amounts of awesome. One Book on Remote Research. It's time for a Happy Hour. Come by after work for a beverage and some snacks on us. Check out our new space. Feel great. Go on to enjoy a stellar evening.

And if you...

The San Francisco UX Book Club will hold its next meeting on Tuesday, March 30th at 7PM at Zendesk

The meeting will focus on "Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things" by Don Norman.

We haven't confirmed a moderator yet, so let me know if you're interested!