UCLA's IT tech community is enhanced by several affinity groups whose members collaborate and share best practices. If you would like to start an Affinity Group or would like your group listed here, please email bruintech@ucla.edu.
Campus Media Producers
The UCLA Campus Media Producers group meets regularly to share and discuss tips and techniques for creating high quality media primarily for online and hybrid instruction. We use this forum to coordinate monthly meetings and to ask questions and disseminate information.
https://groups.google.com/a/lists.ucla.edu/d/forum/cmp
Campus Web Publishers
The UCLA Campus Web Publishers (CWP) is a forum for people publishing websites on campus where people can come to learn/share/explore new and existing technologies and ideas. Members have technical backgrounds, others come from the publications side and many are jacks-of-all-trades. Meetings are held every few months where presentations and discussions are given from Design Fundamentals to Content Management Systems and everything in between. CWP is also a great place to share projects that you’ve been working on. Past project presentations have included the UCLAKnowledgeBase and BruinCast. Meets irregularly to give demos and talk about web technology and issues.
https://groups.google.com/a/lists.ucla.edu/forum/#!forum/cwp-l
Instructional Support Story Swap
The UCLA Instructional Support Story Swap group facilitates the sharing of tools, tips and techniques centered around instructional technology and design.
Join our conversations in the #iss-swap channel in the UCTech Slack Workspace!
Contact: Caroline Kong, caroline@ssc.ucla.edu
UCLA UX
UCLA UX's mission is to promote UX Design at UCLA and encourage collaboration. We are a grassroots organization whose goal is to bring people together from all parts of UCLA that might never otherwise meet, talk about the projects we're working on, share resources, and work together to create a more unified and accessible user experience at UCLA. We hold brown bag sessions with UX speakers from across campus, and meetups to share articles, ideas, and questions about UX and its many disciplines (including user interface, interaction design, usability testing, user research, accessibility, motion design, and information architecture).
Join the UCLA UX Slack Channel
2023-24 UCLA UX General Meetups
2nd Thursday of every month, 3:30-4pm PST
Register to receive calendar invite
Informal sessions for UCLA staff meet and discuss UX-related topics. All are welcome no matter your experience or background! Join us for:
- Professional development
- Networking
- Q&A
- Approachable UX tools and techniques
2023-24 UCLA UX Practitioner Meetups
3rd Wednesday of every month, 2-3pm PST
Register to receive calendar invite
Informal sessions for UCLA staff currently practicing UX design to collaborate. Join us for:
- In-depth discussions
- Design reviews
- Research results and methodology
UCLA Data Visualization Group
Identify best practices, share processes, and work in a collaborative effort to make information “look” better in service to the community.
Join the #ucla_dataviz channel in UC Tech Slack
