To apply for a demo, please use the on-line form. This group aims to be the point of contact between User Experience Professionals (product managers, designers, researchers, front end developers, technical writers, customer support professionals) and the developer community in the Bay Area. The purpose of the group is to help the User Experience community talk to who needs us, help you network and find new gigs with some exciting startup that need some UX love and care. Although the main focus …

Our group is a community of people involved in the creation and delivery of content, including web writers and editors, content strategists, and content managers. We meet monthly to further our shared commitment to creating more effective online and interactive content, network, and grow. If you're interested in content strategy or web content, please join us!

Welcome to the San Francisco HTML5 User Group—the largest HTML5 Meetup in the World! We have free monthly events in San Francisco with presentations by the industry's leading experts in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and other cutting-edge web technologies. Past speakers have included HTML5 superstars like Paul Irish, Bruce Lawson, Steve Souders, Divya Manian, Brian Leroux, PPK, Faruk Ates, Rob Hawkes, Peter Lubbers, and many more. We enjoy free food and drinks from our generous sponsors and encourage …

Meet with other web site system administrators, developers, designers and business people who're interested in making their sites work fast to get better user experience, lower abandonment rates and more money.

This meetup is designed to help understand what HTML5 is and how we can use it now. We'll explore the new elements and have some fun debates about browser implementations and new api's. We'll also take a look at the relationship between HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript on both desktop and mobile devices using Responsive Web Design. The meetup is great for the technical web designer/developers, but we encourage anyone to join who wishes to understand HTML5 better.

Freelance web work is lonely and isolating. We want to meet others that we can socialize with, learn from and maybe work with. All web disciplines welcome - design, development, IA, project management, whatever.

This meetup group is dedicated to learning about the Magento eCommerce platform. Our goals are to stay current on Magento products and topics, discuss extensions and templates, share knowledge and experience and to network with people interested in Magento. We welcome Magento Developers, Graphic and Web Designers, Magento Users and anyone interested in selling products online.

Bring Your Site, Improve Your Design Are you building a website without a designer? Do you feel like there's something wrong, but can't quite put your finger on it? Are you a designer looking for some feedback? No matter how much time you’ve put into your website, chances are it could still benefit from a designer’s “fresh pair of eyes”. We’ll review your website and make suggestions for improvement. We’ll go through examples and analyze the content, typography, look and feel, accessability, etc …

This group is for San Francisco Bay-area Web and Mobile Designers, Developers, Information Architects, Usability Experts, User Experience Designers, Web Producers, Programmers, Flash Animators, etc. - anyone involved in the designing, developing, programming and implementation of web sites and mobile applications. At our meetings we'll network with others in the industry; compare the latest tools, trends, theories, languages and templates; trade advice on careers; share knowledge, tips and trick …

We are a community of entrepreneurs, artists, architects, designers, musicians, painters, photographers, writers, and creative enthusiasts exploring creativity and the intersection of art and entrepreneurship.

This meetup is for the purpose of networking among an ever growing but over looked group of creative people. If you're in any industry of creativity including but not limited to: Art, Fashion, Music, Web Design, Film, Hair&Makeup, Photography, Videography, Performing Art, or Modeling. Join our group! We will be posting tons of different networking opportunities going on around San Francisco for people in the Creative-Industry; by profession or hobby, come join us, "There's alot of us, Let's meet …

Want to learn how to code? Have a great idea? Don't be shy. Develop it. It can be intimidating for women to learn and ask questions when they are in an extreme minority. While open and welcoming, today's budding developer community is up to 91% male. There isn't a comfortable place where women can learn at their own pace and not be afraid to ask "stupid questions." We decided it was time to provide a place where all questions are OK and everyone can learn in a supportive environment. Our courses …

This meetup is dedicated to the design practices, technologies, insights and opportunities around the next frontier information access - the Internet of Things (IoT). We want to cross-pollinate ideas from engineers, designers, researchers, data scientists and entrepreneurs to create meaningful and tangible solutions that will make information access more human, ubiquitous and commercially viable.

Welcome to the Responsive Web Design SF Meetup Group. This group, based in San Francisco, CA, actively supports the San Francisco Web Design and Development communities, by educating it's members about Web Design, Web Standards, development languages, frameworks, libraries and best practices, and how they all converge in the exciting Responsive Web Design paradigms. Watch this space for the first Responsive Web Design workshop, which will include building a Responsive web site, from design to de …

At OkCupid Labs, we're focused on building great technology to connect and match people. The Labs Technology Meetup group is a forum for intellectually curious engineers, math geeks, designers to meet up and talk about new product prototypes and data systems that help people in their search for connections both on and offline. We're big fans of: Lightning talks Skills workshops Happy Hours Great design User-centric development Some of our Meetups will focus on: Ruby, Rails 3, Backbone, Heroku, P …

A meetup consisting of casual evening talks and demos on the challenges and solutions of building and maintaining Wikipedia and associated sites (Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikiquotes, …) at the scale of a top five Internet site with over half a billion monthly uniques. This will be followed by Q&A and other informal lively discussion before and after. This consists of a range of topics such as the MediaWiki software (one of the largest open source web projects), website architecture and inf …

Opa is the ultimate framework for JavaScript. We've decided to create this group to help people to discover and try Opa. We'll regularly organize events and hackathons. The goal is to give you the opportunity to work on a regular basis with Opa and with other people, to ask all the questions you have and to listen to all our advice. Our partner, DotCloud, will provide you lunch and drinks as well as some prizes for the best apps! Anyone with basic skills in web development is very welcome. We'll …

PageLines Forum is a community of PageLines and WordPress users, developers and designers. The Forum's priority is to improve communication between PageLines & its clients. We encourage anyone interested in using WordPress, (particularly Frameworks) whether it be for development or personal use, to participate in the PageLines Forum.

The last Friday of every month we host drinks at our office in downtown San Francisco. The event is focused on socializing with people from the tech, entrepreneur, design and startup community. We especially welcome with open arms new people to the SF as we're very new ourselves. Please only join and RSVP if you're in the industry and are interested in networking and socializing with like-minded people. Do not RSVP to an event if you can't come or won't make it, we have limited places each 4th F …

This group is for anyone currently practicing open innovation in companies, startups, the social/non-profit sector or local government (any any other industry I may have omitted!). This group is also intended or for people who are interested in the topic and want to learn more. Our first meetup will be a discussion on what exactly we mean by 'open innovation'! Future meetups will include topics such as crowdsourcing, design thinking & innovation, and innovation through social networks.

PrestaShop is an Open-source e-commerce software dedicated to innovative technology and providing online success for merchants and developers. We always want to grow our community and reach out to e-commerce lovers. We are looking to connect with PrestaShop users, web developers, web designers, open-source advocates, start-ups, and technology organizations. We welcome all individuals interested in providing suggestions, encouragement, or simply have questions about e-commerce. It is our goal to …

Let's meet to talk about, listen to, and get feedback on our own personal design or development projects! Sometimes, as a designer or a developer, especially if you're freelancing alone, it's helpful to be able to tap someone on the shoulder and say, "hey, look at this! what do you think?" If you have a project that fits the topic of the meetup (we'll do one for design, one for development, and any other topics you'd like to present/see), bring it in to show and tell, and get valuable feedback t …

Good morning African American web professionals. If you professionally develop code, media, content, or strategy for the web, please come and join us for a networking waffle breakfast.

A local meetup of the larger AnthroDesign community, we will meet monthly to discuss all subjects at the intersection of anthropology and design. Meetings may include guest speakers, workshops, and basic community building.

Join our meetup group for events centered around building with Twilio cloud communications, design and development, APIs, and more.

This group is designed for developers looking to discover APIs and services that can help speed up and modularize their development and so time is not wasted re-inventing wheels. We will meet and learn the ins and outs of a new API every week, and why that API is relevant to development. Every API demo will be fun and engaging, and the goal of this meetup is not only to learn, but to also have a great time and make friends!

Are you a rock star web or graphic designer wanting to take a stab at bringing your masterpiece to life, or are you keen to gain a better understanding of why your programmer frown upon your carefully crafted blended modes when it is time to implement it as code. Join us for step by step process of psd2html sessions, introduction to designing in the browser as a true canvas, why is it important to think about responsiveness, how does design complexity affect page speed and why is it it important …

Welcome! We are the hacker collective. A San Francisco based group passionate about rapidly creating new and exciting things. We tinker with all forms of new technology; hardware, software, music, art, design and whatever else. We try to meet once a month to demo and talk about the things we've been working on. Occasionally we'll get together informally to hack on things together.