{"id":157,"date":"2016-01-07T16:23:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T21:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.exploreux.org\/site\/?p=157"},"modified":"2016-03-18T08:27:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T12:27:43","slug":"exploreux-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exploreux.org\/site\/exploreux-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"exploreUX + 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This year, exploreUX is revving up our engines and we\u2019re planning some exciting events for 2016 and we\u2019ll be more active writing blog posts. We\u2019re also in the process of reactivating our exploreUX DC edition. Stay tuned for future events and if there\u2019s something you\u2019d like to see for our events or blog posts, let us know!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>The importance of exploreUX<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>In the process of starting exploreUX, I\u2019ve really learned people are recognizing the importance of great user experiences and know that there are people behind the scenes that design them. How exactly a UX professional does this and how one becomes a UX professional is still a bit vague to many.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Start your own exploreUX<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>If you\u2019re wishing you had something like exploreUX where you live, think about starting an exploreUX edition for your area. We love UX and we want to advocate for it wherever we can. Feel free to contact us if you\u2019re interested in organizing a local edition in your area, we\u2019re happy to help provide guidance.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>exploreUX DC<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Wait, did you say you were starting the exploreUX DC edition again? Yes, I\u2019m in the process of handing over hosting responsibilities for the DC edition to some friends of mine, so they can pick things back up. In my move to Raleigh, it was never my intention to end exploreUX in DC. There\u2019s such a rich community of UXers in DC, that the meetup shouldn\u2019t be falling to the wayside. Keep a look out for events happening this year.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, exploreUX is revving up our engines and we\u2019re planning some exciting events for 2016 and we\u2019ll be more active writing blog posts. We\u2019re also in the process of reactivating our exploreUX DC edition. Stay tuned for future events and if there\u2019s something you\u2019d like to see for our events or blog posts, let [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4krkE-2x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exploreux.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exploreux.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exploreux.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exploreux.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exploreux.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.exploreux.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/www.exploreux.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exploreux.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exploreux.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exploreux.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}