Please join us for the next Twin Cities UX Meetup on Monday, May 10, 2010, 6-9pm.
Garrick Van Buren be discussing how Cucumbers are the future of interaction design artifacts, prototyping, and User Experience design.
DATE & TIME
May 10, 2010 (2nd Monday of the month)
LOCATION
Wilde Roast Cafe parlor room
518 Hennepin Ave. E. • [...]
Chank Diesel is holding a talk on type improvisation @ CoCo in St. Paul next Thursday (Apr 29th) from 9am – 11am.
Registration is $30 that includes the afternoon of co-working @ CoCo, or $15 just for Chank’s session.
To register and for more information – visit CoCoMSP.com
Garrick’s Note: A couple months back, Tom Laughlin (President, Caravela, Inc) mentioned he was experimenting with Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook ads in driving traffic to his business website. I asked him if he would write up what he learned and share it with us. Here’s Tom…
I established a leadership consulting firm in 2002 to provide [...]
Deluxe Corp is looking for a print & web designer.
Here’s some key bullet points from their job description.
Design and produce Internet/web, landing pages, HTML emails and Flash projects
Presents wireframes, design concepts and rationale to management for all interactive projects
Works with creative and eMarketing team from initial concept to final deployment
Work with outside vendors on [...]
Please join us for our next UX Book Club discussion Monday, February 8, 6-8 p.m. at Wilde Roast in NE Minneapolis.
We’ll be discussing a The Web Content Strategist’s Bible: The Complete Guide To A New And Lucrative Career For Writers Of All Kinds. The author, Richard Sheffield, will join via video-conference.
When reading the book, [...]
Apologies for the delay, our plans for the January UX Meetup have unfortunately fallen through – so we’ve decided not to fight it and instead, return in February (announcement post forthcoming).
But it’s winter in Minnesota – and you need to get out more – so come over to CoCoMSP the new collaboration and co-working space [...]
Syncada is looking for a Sr. Product Manager Job Description [doc]
This particular product manager manages all instances of user interface….
Responsible for managing the entire product lifecycle: building, launching and delivering products to market….
Develop detailed requirements document that specifies solution requirements and acts as the contract with development
5-7 years experience in Product Management and/or software design, [...]
REQUIRED SKILL SETS:
Minimum of 10+ years web/online marketing and/or Agency experience, with minimum 3 years developing and directing online community and communications initiatives; experience on either client and agency sides a plus
Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Business or a related field; MBA preferred
Proven track record in social media including blogging, blogger relations, podcasting or other means [...]
This is easily my 2nd favorite job posting ever on MNteractive.
“We are seeking a User Experience (UX) Designer…We want you to write the description for this position. For lack of a better term, we’ll call this a reverse job description. Your description should be perfectly tailored to you. This is your opportunity to inspire us.“
In [...]
A neighboring suburb’s struggles with branding and marketing made the front page of my neighborhood newspaper this week.
From the article “Mounds View continues discussing new tagline” by Kate Garlock, it sounds like a case of equal parts design by committee and crowdsourcing.
Both of which are fine, well-worn strategies and both have a significantly lower upfront [...]