Author Archives: garrick

d.school @ CoCo

hey all – The Line Media wrote up an article on the d.school@CoCo w/ photos from our session. btw – if you wanna check out the Crash Course and haven’t yet – looks like there’s still room available for their Tues June 5th session.

Modern Climate looking for an experience IA/UX

If you or someone you know has ~5 years experience as a IA/UX person – Modern Climate wants to talk to you.

[job] Childrens Hospital looking for a Interactive Designer / Front-end Dev

A contact @ Children’s Hospital sent me a message saying they’re looking for someone (with a little experience ~4yrs) to help them design & build HTML emails and other marketing/brand-oriented web materials (so, PHP experience is helpful too). If you or someone you know is interested I’ll connect you w/ my contact. If you’re interested [...]

MN UX Meetup – Mon. Jan 9, 2012, 6-8pm Wilde Roast Cafe

Please join us for our first UX Meetup of 2012. The topic will be “What Taxonomy Is & Why It’s Important to UX.” Our guest speaker will be Seth Earley, CEO of Earley & Associates. Seth will join us via Skype. DATE & TIME Monday, January 9 6-8 p.m. LOCATION Wilde Roast Cafe 65 Main [...]

Job: Symantec Senior Principal UX Specialist – NetBackup

“The first member of the team we are looking for is an experienced interaction designer to help develop a vision for highly usable solutions, working closely with customers, product management, engineering, and Symantec’s internal UI design team, which is global. NetBackup’s UCD and UI architecture center of expertise is Pune, India, and we have support [...]

[job] Contact UXD opportunity @ Medtronic

We have an immediate opening for a User Experience Designer (Contract) at Medtronic in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. High-Level Responsibilities: Provide leadership conducting task analysis and usability assessments. Work closely with customers, the business teams and the development teams to play a lead role in user interface design for internally- and externally-facing web applications and [...]

May 2010 UX Meetup – May 10, Wilde Roast Cafe, 6-9 PM

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. [...]

Go CoCo for Chank's 'Hi-Octane Type' on Apr 29, 9-11am – $30

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

[Guest Post] Confessions of an Internet Advertising Rookie

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 [...]

[JOB] Interactive Designer at Deluxe Corp

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 [...]