You might hit a user group. And this Thursday the newest one hits - Chip Lemmon's New Jersey User Experience (NJUX).
The groups I attend on a semi-regular basis include the .Net group out of the Microsoft Iselin office, the .Net group out of the SetFocus office and the SQL group out of the SetFocus office.
The general theme among most groups is everything .Net
Well what's exciting about Chip's group is its focus on the user experience, including usability, good design and functional practices and maybe even some architecting. These are not .Net exclusive concepts and they're no less important to the practice of developing software - in fact, they are some of the most important elements of a good application. Who gives a rat's ass for yer refactored, multi-threaded, n-tiered, enterprise level accounting, reporting and glavin system if it's not usable by the average corporate user?
Thursday at 6:30 at the Gaslight Brewery in South Orange
Chips blog post: http://geekswithblogs.net/clemmon/archive/2007/03/12/108572.aspx
NJUX - check it, mah shiz nitches.