What we’re about
UXPALA is a 501c6 non-profit. Our focus is Service and Education to the UX and Tech community of the greater Southern California area.
The Los Angeles chapter of The User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA) International is the 2nd largest, world-wide.
Our chapter and membership are here to support user experience professional's (advanced, entering, transitioning, students and all related) in advancing their knowledge and use of usability, research, accessibility, and best practices. Our chapter focuses on service, education, and volunteering through events, workshops, and mentoring.
Our members encompass a wide variety of disciplines, including product and service strategy, design, research, content, and development. We are colleagues in pursuit of a common goal: better products and services, better process, and better work/life through usability, accessibility, research and collaboration.
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UXPA International is a global professional association devoted to assisting new and established professionals in the user experience disciplines. Through networking, publications, conferences, and classes, UXPA can help you hone your skills and deepen your involvement in the UX community.
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2024 Book Club
Ghost Work - How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass
Mary L. Gray (Author), Siddharth Suri (Author)In the spirit of Nickel and Dimed, a necessary and revelatory expose of the invisible human workforce that powers the web—and that foreshadows the true future of work.
Hidden beneath the surface of the web, lost in our wrong-headed debates about AI, a new menace is looming. Anthropologist Mary L. Gray and computer scientist Siddharth Suri team up to unveil how services delivered by companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber can only function smoothly thanks to the judgment and experience of a vast, invisible human labor force. These people doing "ghost work" make the internet seem smart. They perform high-tech piecework: flagging X-rated content, proofreading, designing engine parts, and much more. An estimated 8 percent of Americans have worked at least once in this “ghost economy,” and that number is growing. They usually earn less than legal minimums for traditional work, they have no health benefits, and they can be fired at any time for any reason, or none.
There are no labor laws to govern this kind of work, and these latter-day assembly lines draw in—and all too often overwork and underpay—a surprisingly diverse range of workers: harried young mothers, professionals forced into early retirement, recent grads who can’t get a toehold on the traditional employment ladder, and minorities shut out of the jobs they want. Gray and Suri also show how ghost workers, employers, and society at large can ensure that this new kind of work creates opportunity—rather than misery—for those who do it.
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