Author Archives: Jen Bohmbach

Jennifer runs her own User Experience and Technology Consultancy with her husband Thomas. She has been working in the business of helping companies using the Internet as a communication medium for almost 14 years. Prior to this work, Jennifer earned a double major in Theater and English. Her undergraduate work helped her understand and practice bringing together groups of specialists to create performances which today greatly informs her work in social experience design.

JOB POST: Digital Producer @ Minneapolis BBDO

Digital Producer The BBDO Minneapolis Digital Producer is responsible for managing all day-to-day aspects of the development of online advertising, including banners, landing pages, microsites and rich media applications. The ideal candidate must be a leader and innovator who can take an active role in strengthening BBDO’s digital and internet marketing capabilities. This person will [...]

Job: Ingenix Principal User Experience Architect

Details: Interested, apply online – http://www.unitedhealthgroup.com/careers – to position #145493 or email to Steve Eisman @ steve_l_eisman@uhc.com – referencing MNASIS in the Subject. Ingenix is one of the largest health care information and research companies in the industry. No one competitor offers the same breadth of products and services as Ingenix. In fact, our competitors [...]

Chuck Close Has Something To Teach Us As Creators

I was lucky enough to attend the Chuck Close discussion at the Walker last weekend. (July 24, 2005) Chuck Close as an artist has quite a bit to give our community. He works from photographs he has taken of large heads of people that he knows.These photos include many of himself. In fact, that is [...]

Book Review: Steven Johnson’s Everything Bad Is Good For You: How Pop Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter

Steven Johnson attempts to debunk some strong popular opinions in his new book, Everything Bad Is Good For You: How Today’s Pop Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter. He deconstructs the popular thought processes of today that say that all this video game playin’, music listening, reality tv watching culture is a race to the [...]

JOB: Company: Ingenix (A UnitedHealth Group Company)

Title: Enterprise Information Architect Location: Minneapolis, MN or Boston, MA Establish and lead newly forming User Experience & Design team. Responsible for the customer experience of all ~100 Ingenix products, serving and connecting all aspects of healthcare. Join us in developing products that materially impact the health and well being of the nation. http://www.unitedhealthgroup.com Email [...]

A New Old Tool for Mac User’s

As I’ve been working at my new job for Sun Microsystems for about 7 months now, I’m starting to put some standards in place for our group. One thing my manager and I wanted to do was use Sun tools for standard documentation. I use a Mac as do many thousands of Sun employees. I [...]

One of Garrick’s Predictions Coming to Life

Mobile workforce. I never thought it possible to make something that seemed so complicated (to me) so easy. Here I am at home. I am working. It is a blizzard outside, but I’m here toasty in my comfortable clothes. I didn’t have to go out on a day that was very unappealing to tackle. Garrick [...]

Find Your Friends

I just got invited to join the dodgeball site. This is a social network with a twist. You register on the site and connect to your friends by getting them to join or adding them if they are already on. Basically it works on the premise that if a friend (or friend of a friend) [...]

Save the iPods

I have posted this plea from the people at Save BetaMax. Serious limits to the manner in which we use our content could be the result of not making your voice heard. Please take a moment and sign up to call a representative. Thank you. ———————————— Anyone who has ever used an iPod, taped TV [...]

Are you Sirius? How push media made me excited to go to the CD store again.

There is something about it when a song comes on the radio that you haven’t heard and you catch yourself moving to it or singing it and you didn’t even know you knew it. May I repeat a song on the radio, I haven’t had that experience in a very long time and frankly, I [...]