Join Steel City UX Ladies for a Valentine’s themed Happy Hour, at Margaux Pittsburgh, celebrating our love for creativity, connection, and our UX community! Unwind, socialize, and get your hands-on with fun, heart-filled activities. Whether you're into crafting, writing, or just great conversation, there's something for everyone. Make a little something special to keep or share, or simply enjoy the good vibes and great company!

Margaux

5947 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Street Parking is available.

Interested in joining Steel City UX Ladies as an organizer?

Join us on Sunday, January 26th for an organizer meet & greet at Grandview Bakery (located in Mount Washington) from 10:30AM-11:30AM! We will provide donuts and coffee while we chat with our current organizers and answer any questions folks may have.

Being an Organizer with Steel City UX Ladies is a volunteer opportunity. We’re looking for individuals who are interested in growing their engagement with the Pittsburgh UX community. Our Organizers meet once a month (30-60 minutes) to plan events for the year (July and December are holiday months with no events). We ask that each Organizer help to plan at least 1 event per year.

Looking forward to chatting soon!

Grandview Bakery
225 Shiloh St
Pittsburgh, PA 15211
Parking is located across from the bakery — FREE on Sunday

Join us on Wednesday, November 20 for a UX Happy Hour at Lawrence Hall located in Central Lawrenceville from 5:30PM-7:30PM! Lawrence Hall is a food hall bringing together a variety of thoughtfully-selected local restaurateurs, including Cuddy’s Soul Food, Loaded, Lapalapa, Toma, Leona’s Ice Cream, and more.

During this happy hour event, we invite attendees to bring their portfolios to review (optional). We’re happy to pair you up with some UX pros who can help provide feedback for that future role you’ve been looking for! Outside of UX stuff, we hope you have fun trying local eats and taking in the exciting sights and sounds of the heart of Lawrenceville!

Lawrence Hall
4609 Butler Street,
Pittsburgh, PA, 15201
412-254-3383

Join us on Sunday, October 20 for a UX Halloween Meet-Up at Cinderlands Warehouse located in the Strip District from 12:00-1:45PM! After grabbing some bites, we will walk over to the Monster Pumpkins Festival nearby to witness the great pumpkin drop! Hope to see you there!

Cinderlands Warehouse
2601 Smallman Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15222

Join us on Wednesday, September 25 for a UX Happy Hour at Pins Mechanical Company located in Southside Works from 5:30-7:00PM! Pins Mechanical is a full-service bar and gaming venue — and Steel City UX Ladies will be providing pizza to snack on.

During this happy hour event, we invite attendees to bring their resumes to review (optional). We’re happy to pair you up with some UX pros who can help you polish your resume for that future role you’ve been looking for! Outside of UX stuff, we hope you have fun with all the games to choose from!

Pins Mechanical Company
407 Cinema Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15203

Join us on Wednesday, August 14 for a UX Happy Hour at Moonlit Burgers on the Duquesne University campus from 5:30-7:30PM! Moonlit has it all — smashburgers, fries, and Millie’s soft serve!

During this happy hour event, our organizers will facilitate what we call ‘talk tracks’ to discuss topics that impact the design career journey. For this event, our talk tracks include:

• How to continue to develop in your career -- inside and outside the workplace, as well as within and outside your design function

• How to be an effective storyteller -- what does it mean to know your audience?

• How to maintain your design portfolio -- how do you ensure you are keeping up-to-date with your personal brand, including past, present, and future!

Moonlit Burgers*
1023 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15219

*Street parking is available as well as a parking garage ($6 flat rate) located across from the restaurant.

No Sunday plans? Join us for a UX Book Swap on May 19 from 11AM-1PM at Bakery Square, in the atrium between City Kitchen and Jeni’s Ice Cream Shop. Whether you have a few books you’d like to contribute to the swap or are looking to snag a few books to start your collection, all are welcome! Hope to see you there!

Bakery Square Atrium (in between City Kitchen and Jeni’s Ice Cream Shop)
6425 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Parking garage free for the first 2 hours!

Let’s get together for a UX Happy Hour at the new Novo Asian Food Hall located in the Strip District on Tuesday, April 30 from 5:00-7:00PM! Connect with other UX enthusiasts over a drink and some bites. Our organizers will be wearing our Steel City UX Ladies tshirts and floral leis for visibility! We will also be giving away a SCUXL tshirt to one random attendee. Hope to see you there!

Novo Asian Food Hall
Strip District Terminal
1931 Smallman Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15222

Join us Tuesday, February 20 from 6-8PM EST for a virtual Portfolio Pitch jam session on Google Meet! Are you currently active in the job market? Or maybe you’re thinking about your next role?

We’re setting up small group sessions (2-3 designers per group), where each designer can pitch a project within their portfolio for 10 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of group feedback. Each designer will be asked to set some brief context on the project, as well as the type of feedback they are looking for. Overall, this group session will run approximately 60 minutes. We will run group sessions at 6PM EST and 7PM EST depending on the number of participants.

Steel City UX Ladies organizers will assist with facilitating these sessions, so we can remain on-time and enable active engagement during the discussion. Hope to see you there!

After submitting your Registration, we will organize feedback groups and send you a calendar invite to join us via Google Meet.

Let’s kick off 2024 with a UX Happy Hour at City Kitchen located at Bakery Square in East Liberty on Tuesday, January 30 from 5:30-7:30PM! Connect with other UX enthusiasts over a drink, some bites, and don’t forget that Jeni’s Ice Cream is just around the corner. Our organizers will be wearing our Steel City UX Ladies tshirts for visibility! Hope to see you there!

City Kitchen
145 Bakery Square Boulevard
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Steel City UX Ladies will be at the Pittsburgh Monster Pumpkins Festival on Sunday, October 22! We’ll hang out at the festival entrance from 4:00-4:30PM — look for our organizers dressed in their Halloween-themed shirts. And we’ll have bags of goodies to hand out to our members, so be sure to stop by and say hello!

Monster Pumpkins Festival Information & Directions

Please fill out the information below, and we’ll be sure to keep you posted via email about the event!

Join us Tuesday, September 26 from 5:00-7:00PM for a UX Happy Hour at Coop de Ville in the Strip District! Mingle with fellow design enthusiasts over a drink and some bites! Psst… there’s also pinball machines, arcade games, and duck pin bowling for those interested!

Coop de Ville
2305 Smallman St
Pittsburgh, PA 15222

Join us Wednesday, August 30 at 6:00PM for an Open Studio networking event hosted by Smith Micro in Pittsburgh! As part of the Open Studio, we are offering portfolio and/or resume reviews, with snacks and drinks provided. We’re also looking for industry practitioners who are willing to help provide feedback during reviews.

In addition, we will also present an opportunity for attendees to learn more about Smith Micro’s UX Research and Design teams! Open Studio hours are 6:00-7:30PM, so stop by when it works best for you!

Smith Micro
5800 Corporate Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15237

When we first started Steel City UX Ladies, we weren’t sure where the journey would take us. And look at us now as we celebrate another anniversary milestone!

Join us Saturday, June 24 at 12:00PM as we celebrate 3 years with Steel City UX Ladies at North Park in Pittsburgh. The event will be potluck style food and drink, and we’ll also have a few gift giveaways as well! Please note, there will be no alcohol at this event.

Babble Brook pavilion sits on a sloped area, next to the lake at the corner of Ingomar and Babcock Boulevard. Parking, flush bathrooms and a portable restroom are available across the street. This pavilion is very convenient for fishing.

North Park
Babble Brook Pavilion
E Ingomar Rd
Allison Park, PA 15101

Hey there! Come join us for a chill evening of 'Building Bridges' within the UX community at Aslin in the Strip District. This is the perfect chance to meet other pros, shoot the breeze, and make some new connections. Who knows, you might even find yourself a mentor!

It doesn't matter if you're a UX veteran or new to the industry — everyone's welcome. We'll be hanging out in a laid-back setting where you can chat, swap stories, and learn from folks who've been there before. So don't miss out - come say “hi”, grab a drink, and let's build some bridges together!

Steel City UX Ladies is hosting a virtual panel event focusing on different design roles across various industries, including aspects that distinguish these roles from others as well as sharing stories of career pathing into these roles.

Panelists Include
Anushree Abhyankar, UX Researcher at MathWorks
Bridget Deely, Innovation Lead at PNC
Kanika Khosla, Design at Google
Shana Shields, UX Designer at American Eagle Outfitters

Join us Wednesday, March 29 from 5:30-7:30PM at Federal Galley in Pittsburgh! We’ll have some small bites for our members, along with some great conversation!

Federal Galley
200 Children’s Way
Pittsburgh, PA 15212

February is all about sharing our love for UX books! Join us Sunday, February 19 between 10AM to 12PM at Panera Bread in the Galleria of Mount Lebanon in Pittsburgh! If you have some UX books collecting dust on your shelf, feel free to bring them along and donate them to the swap — and hopefully you’ll get to leave with some new books to dive into! No worries if you don’t have books to donate, please join us and collect some books to start to build up your own UX library. We’ve got some awesome titles to share with you over the coming weeks regarding what will be available for the swap — many of these titles cost $$ on Amazon, so come out and mingle with fellow UX enthusiasts and grab a few books that interest you!

We will also provide light food and drinks, so what more could you ask for on a Sunday in Pittsburgh?

Panera Bread
The Galleria of Mount Lebanon
1500 Washington Rd
Pittsburgh, PA 15228

Let's kick off the New Year with an event that's all about you! Steel City UX Ladies is offering 60-minute Resume & Portfolio Review Sessions on Sunday, January 22! Enjoy a one-on-one session with a UX practitioner who can give practical advice and feedback for your resume and/or portfolio. We can look at your work-in-progress or final version! Spots are limited, so sign up today!

Join us Tuesday November 29 at 7:00PM EST for a Virtual Kahoot Trivia Night! We will have some awesome hosts, fun trivia, and prizes for our top scoring contestants!

Steel City UX Ladies will be at the Pittsburgh Monster Pumpkins Festival on Saturday, October 15! We’ll hang out at the festival entrance from 3:00-3:30PM — look for our organizers dressed in their halloween-themed shirts. And we’ll have bags of goodies to hand out to our members, so be sure to stop by and say hello!

Monster Pumpkins Festival Information & Directions

In the event of inclement weather, we will postpone the event to Sunday, October 16.

Please fill out the information below, and we’ll be sure to keep you posted via email about the event!

Join us Tuesday August 16 at 7:00PM EST for a virtual UX Behind the Scenes talk with Truefit! Jackie Watts will present an inside look on how Truefit approaches design, and she will also discuss some of their current open roles.

Join us for a behind the scenes look at design for Boeing, presented by Jack Moffett. Jack is a UX manager in Boeing Global Services’ Customer Experience team where he is supporting DesignOps efforts for Training Solutions and Digital Aviation Solutions, building a UX training program, and managing a CX metrics team. With degrees in both Graphic Design and Interaction Design, over 20 years of enterprise experience, and well over a decade of adjunct teaching, he has a wealth of knowledge about design process, methods, tools, and practice and the passion to share it with others.

Jack has designed software tools for Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Shell, DaimlerChrysler, Eaton, and many organizations within the U.S. military, including Joint Service Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Naval Reactors, and NCIS. He has authored two books, co-founded IxDA Pittsburgh, speaks at conferences regularly, and writes about design on designaday.tumblr.com.

As UX professionals, we know a customer-centric culture is good for business. That’s why we conduct research to design the best possible user experience for the people who use our products. How can we collaborate and show the value of research across all disciplines within our organization? Join Prayag Narula, the CEO and co-founder of Marvin, as he shares practical tips and guidance on how to invite designers and other colleagues into your research process.

The month of April brings an opportunity to celebrate the Earth! People from all over the globe come together to discuss education, participation, and action when it comes to environmental justice, sustainable development, and climate solutions. Steel City UX Ladies invites you to join us for an Earth Day celebration, featuring a talk titled “The UX of Sustainable Living” by former Geologist turned UX Designer, Denise Hardman.

Audience members are able to learn and participate in discussions around environmental impacts as it relates to how we move, how we shelter, and how we consume in our everyday lives. And let’s not forget about UX — we’ll discuss the good and not-so-good experiences when adopting different sustainable practices! One lucky audience member will receive a special gift to compliment their own sustainable living journey!

Do you ever think about changing things up in your career? Maybe you imagine yourself in a different work environment or taking on new responsibilities? Join us for a virtual panel discussion featuring a great line-up of accomplished UX practitioners with very different career paths! We’ll hear their stories (and advice) about taking a contract role, joining a startup, stepping back into academics, and even starting a business!

Panelists Include:

• Lisa Carter, Senior Product Designer at Motional

• Esther Estroff, UX Designer at CivicScience

• Krista Krebs, Founder at Krista Krebs Co.

• Susanna Zlotnikov, Senior Service Design Researcher at Pitt School of Medicine

Join us for a UX Masterclass focusing on the topic of “Usability Testing Basics”. During this session we will deconstruct the approach to moderated remote usability testing, including key considerations before, during and after the testing session!

We’ll provide attendees with a handy set of resources for those interested in learning more about the topics we discuss.

Join us as information architect Abby Covert gives the rundown of the purpose, process, and craft of diagramming, an essential design skill!

A few lucky attendees will win a digital copy of How to Make Sense of Any Mess!