Category Archives: Calendar

A calendar of interaction design-related events held in the Minnesota. Subscribe to the MNteractive iCal calendar. To add your events or organization to the MNteractive calendar, email garrick.vanburen@gmail.com.

UPA-MN: Agile and UCD: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

UPA-MN’s January 8, 2009 meeting at the Open Book will be a panel discussion (including David Hussman from DevJam, Bob Arnoldy of Avenet, and more?) on Agile in the context of user-centered design.

UPA-MN: Agile and UCD: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

UPA-MN’s January 8, 2009 meeting at the Open Book will be a panel discussion (including David Hussman from DevJam, Bob Arnoldy of Avenet, and more?) on Agile in the context of user-centered design.

MinneUX Book Club: Feb. 11, “Sketching User Experiences”

Hello MinneUX’ers –
 
Please join us for our first MinneUX Book Club discussion.  We’ll be meeting Wednesday, Feb. 11 between 6-8pm at Wilde Roast in NE Minneapolis, discussing Bill Buxton’s “Sketching User Experiences”, which I thought would be a good kickoff since it was the most popular choice for those who took the recent survey.
 
When reading [...]

MinneUX Meetup Jan. 6: Demo of Zanby.com “discount” usability

Hola MinneUX’ers–
Next month we have a slight twist to our meetups — Lynn Smith, local IA/IxD pro, will be presenting a demo of a very creative, non-facilitated “discount” usability test/heuristic evaluation, followed by open discussion about the methodology used, its rigor and validity — basically, “Is this a good way to gather feedback?” Lynn and [...]

MinneDemo - 7pm Nov 12, 2008 @ Intermedia Arts, Lyndale & 28th

Save the Date.
More info forthcoming @ MinneDemo.org

UnSummit 08

What’s the coolest thing about the MIMA Summit getting so popular it can’t hold everyone interested?
The creation of the UnSummit. Thanks to Don Ball for striking the match.
Update: An excellent UnSummit recap from Phil Wilson over at Minnov8

Twin Cities IA/UX Meetup: Oct 7, 2008 5-7pm Monte Carlo

The next Twin Cities UX Meetup group will meet October 7 at the Monte Carlo. After September’s riveting discussion on personas (SUPER interesting), we’ll switch gears to discuss “what projects make you want to drink daily?”. Come get some help and support with your gripes and challenges.
Look for Lori Baker and the “UX [...]

Name-your-price music. Now in ‘concert’ flavor!

Radiohead did it. NIN did it. Recently, Girl Talk did it. The name-your-own-price model for purchasing music albums is a nice trend to see. I’m at the point where I don’t even care what the music is. I just feel obligated to buy a copy to promote the business model.
Well, now you can support the [...]

Helvetica @ MCBA this Thursday

For those that haven’t seen it yet, Minnesota Center for Book Arts will be screening it this Thursday:

http://www.mnbookarts.org/events/events.html

The Unofficial Minneapolis Mobile User Experience Week

As coincidence would have it, next week we have two local events - both admission free - covering the ‘mobile’ internet.
First, on the advertising side is Space150’s Mobile Marketing Workshop, it’s all afternoon on Monday Aug 11th with presentations from lots-o-places including; Nokia, Weather.com, and Yahoo!.
Then, on Tues we’re having the regular MNteractive User Experience [...]