Author Archives: Samantha Bailey

March 2007 UX/IA Meetup

Please join us at the newly remodeled Freight House Dunn Brothers for the March UX/IA meetup. Are you going to the IA Summit in Vegas? Do you have any other conferences or professional development on your schedule? Let’s catch up.

Graphic Design Position Open at Thomson West

Graphic Designer-New Product Development
We’re seeking a graphic designer to join our corporate UX team. Work collaboratively with fellow user experience professionals to improve and advance Thomson West’s premiere legal research product: Westlaw (http://westlaw.com).
Ideal candidates will have:

Strong GUI design and problem solving skills
Experience applying formal design methodologies such as creating a high fidelity design from [...]

[Job] Westlaw Seeking Freelance Graphic Designer

We’re a corporate UX team seeking a freelance graphic designer to contribute to web-based GUI projects on an hourly basis between now and the end of the year. We have a great in-house designer but we need some staff augmentation to finish out our projects for the year. This design work will be for web site [...]

Twin Cities IA/UX Meetup: Saturday 11/11 2pm

Please join us for the IA/UX Meetup this Saturday (11/11) from 2-4 at the Loring Park Cafe in downtown Minneapolis: 1301 Harmon Place, Downtown Minneapolis
It has felt like there’s been a lot going on–job changes, conferences, some Web 2.0 mania. I’m looking forward to catching up!
Our next meeting will be Saturday, Dec 9–same time/place.

Twin Cities IA/UX Meetup

Please join us for the Twin Cities IA/UX Meetup at the Loring Park Coffee House from 2-4 pm on Saturday, October 14.
Unfortunately, I’m going to be out of town so I won’t be able to personally attend–I’m hoping someone else will be able to step up and play host (which basically is just a matter [...]

JOB: Web Developer at Thomson West

Seeking a contract Web Developer for a 6-8 week assignment at Thomson West in Eagan, MN. You will work with the usability team developing prototypical user interfaces for a legal research product.
Here’s the catch: We are looking for someone who can start almost immediately.(Our prototyper was unexpectedly poached by another department!)
Major Responsibilities

Develop prototypical user [...]

Twin Cities IA Meetup this Saturday (8/12) at 2:00 pm

Just letting folks know that we’ll be having our second-Saturday-of-the-month IA Meetup this Saturday (8/12) at 2:00pm at Loring Park Cafe in Minneapolis. Address: 1301 Harmon Place.
Discussion topic is pot luck, although I’d like to pick folk’s brains a bit about experiences with large-scale card sorting (pros and cons). Hope to see you there!

Saturday MNteractive Coffee - August 12, 2006

Hi,
Advanced warning–the next Twin Cities IA/UX Meetup is the Saturday AFTER NEXT 8/12 at 2:00 pm at Loring Park Cafe. I’m committed to sticking to the second Saturday schedule faithfully! Hope to see you there.

Twin Cities IA/UX Meetup July, 8 2006

We have two agenda items for this month’s coffee.
The first is a quick “focus group” with Fred Beecher to help him gather some info to report back to the 2007 IASummit committee–it’s your chance to help shape next year’s conference.
The second is a discussion topic proposed by Lynn Leitte:
Content Management Systems: uses, functionalities, [...]