Speaker Instructions
- The UI/UX Community of Practice is a place for professional development for current Hack for LA members.
- Members of the CoP can learn, ask questions, or collaborate with fellow members or invited guests.
- Topics range widely from (but not limited to):
- Learning relevant skills for working within teams
- Sharing a case study, portfolio, or product idea
- Obtaining a job in the field of UI/UX
- Learning about new trends in the field
The UI/UX Community of Practice Co-Leads welcome speakers from all levels of experience to share, present, and collaborate with members of the UI/UX CoP. Past speakers have included:
- Invited guests from various tech companies
- Alumni who currently have a UI/UX role
- Alumni who have worked in fields adjacent to UI/UX
- Current members who want feedback on:
- A product from another HfLAn Team
- Their portfolio
- An upcoming job presentation
- A case study
- A HfLA guide
- The structure is up to the speaker. However, a format that has worked in the past has been to send a GitHub issue to UI/UX CoP members a head of time that collects questions.
- The CoP Co-Leads will collate the questions into common themes and send the list of questions back to the speaker who then develops a structure of their talk based upon the common questions.
- In order to give enough time for this format to work, we recommend the following timeline:
- 3-4 weeks before talk: Speaker agrees and consents to delivering a talk based upon a particular topic.
- 2-3 weeks before talk: Co-Leads develop Q&A issue and send to UI/UX members via the ui-ux Slack Channel (see example Slack announcement).
- 1-2 weeks before talk: Co-Leads organize the questions into themes and send back to the speaker.
- Day of talk: Speaker delivers talk based upon questions.
- Day of talk: Late arriving questions are added to the Q&A time at the end of the speaker's presentation.
- If you require more or less time, please let the Co-Leads know.
- The UI/UX CoP meets for one hour.
- We cannot guarantee that the Zoom meeting will go beyond one hour due to other HfLA meetings being scheduled on the same Zoom account.
- We recommend planning to deliver a 30 minute talk, leaving about 20-25 minutes for Q&A. However, you may decide to adjust the talk-to-Q&A ratio.
- Talks given to the UI/UX CoP have no defined structure.
- Level of formality is entirely up to you. Past examples have included:
- Talk with a formal slide deck
- Walkthrough of website or document
- Casual conversation answering questions from attendees
- You may decide to have your talk recorded and shared internally with UI/UX CoP members or externally in other HfLA channels.
- We have also had presenters share information with attendees and later decide to withdraw from sharing their talk more broadly.
- Even if content is shared only with attendees during a meeting, we cannot guarantee that identifiable information will not be shared beyond the group. Therefore, be careful about sharing sensitive information with the group!
- In most cases, we announce talks internally via our ui-ux Slack Channel. This means that only UI/UX CoP members would have access to the Zoom link.
- Depending on your preference, we may decide to announce the talk via our Meetup account. This would allow individuals from the general public to attend the talk.
- Work with the CoP Co-Leads to decide how open or closed you would like to make your talk available to others.
- Link: Speaker Consent Form for Presentation
- The consent form for speakers includes the following:
- Advertising your presentation
- Recording audio and video files
- Sharing and storing presentation materials
- You will be given an opportunity on the form to provide specific instructions or accommodations.
