IxDA Munich

The IxDA Munich is celebrating its 4th year and we would like to thank all the members, meeting attendees and speakers for these years of learning and exchange! We would also like to take the opportunity to thank others and show you what we did together in the last year.

These are some of the all-time achievements:

• 314 registered members on Linkedin (92 senior level, 69 entry, 41 freelancers, 27 managers, 25 directors)
• 177 Facebook followers (and growing every day!)
• 40 meetings (talks, workshops, book clubs, social evenings)
• Members per meeting: usually between 10 and 50 participants
• Since 2011 we invite the community to participate every December in the IxDA Munich Survey, the first totally open salary and work survey in the area

Meetings in the past 12 months:

• The Great UX Debate with Stephan Riess, Stefan Dinter, Sebastian Fabre
• UX Book Club with Susan Weinschenk
• Fablab on Personal Manufacturing with Martin Geck
• IxDA Session with Aarron Walter
• Responsive Design with Sabine Berghaus
• UX Book Club with Nathan Shedroff & Christopher Noessel
• Circadian Selves with Josh Berson
• Movie Evening at the Hochschule München
• HUX with Claude Toussaint
• Smell, Senses and Experience with Susanne Schmitt
• Sustainable Behavior with Jan Köppen

• Hochschule München
• Designaffairs
• Sapient Nitro
• Reppa.net
• You is Now
• IDEO
• Mediadesign Hochschule
• UID
• Push Conference
• amiando / XING
• UserZomm

This is the IxDA Munich team:

• Alexis Brion
• Sebastian Wendlandt
• Robert Brauer
• Rachel Simpson
• +some other sporadic collaborators (thank you!)

Tataa! We are launching the 2012 IxDA Munich survey. It takes less than 6,5 minutes to complete. And what’s even better: it’s absolutely anonymous. So be brave and tick as many questions as all questions in the survey. If you feel like having a déjà vu then you’re right. We recycled last year’s questions but only to have some comparable data. In the end would like to aggregate both data sets in order  to have an even more exciting result than we had last year when we did this survey for the first time.

If you consider yourself as part of the Munich interaction design community you are invited to complete the online-survey here.

For the first time, we decided to organize a survey for designers working in Munich and surrounding areas. The goals of the survey are to get information (and share it!) about the design job market in Munich. For example, to have an idea about salaries, working hours and general conditions. The second goal is to know more about what you think about the IxDA Munich. Here are the results!

Facts

Survey Period: ca. 2 months, end of 2011.

Participants: 36

Location: mostly from Munich

Professionals: mostly interaction designers and usability experts.