If you’re interested in designing for mobile devices (iPhone, G1, Kindle, Blackberry, etc) Justin Grammens has started a local group – MobileTwinCities.com – focusing on that. The first meeting is 7pm, Tuesday March 17 at the Loring Park Dunn Bros.
Mahtab Rezai, VP at EatonGolden will be talking about keeping usability relevant at the March 12 UPA-MN meeting (6-8pm at the OpenBook). $10 members, $30 non-members (Cash/Check only at the door).
Theme: Uncovering Multiple Levels of Meaning in the Design of Objects and Experiences Full speaker list at IDSAmn.org UPDATE: the IDSA is looking for sponsors starting at $600. Contact Kerstin Strom for more info.
Hello Twin Cities UXers – Please join us for our next UX Book Club discussion Monday, April 13 between 6-8pm at Wilde Roast in NE Minneapolis, discussing Robert Hoekman Jr.’s “Designing the Obvious”. Stephanie Hammes-Betti will be leading our discussion. When reading the book, please write down your answers to these topics/questions and bring them with you – [...]
Kristofer Layon & Peter Fleck have formally announced MinneWebCon 2009 – scheduled for April 6, 2009. In case very cool sessions by some of the most above-average people in the area weren’t enough for you to block off your day and pay the $200 registration fee – Doc Searls and Bruce Schneier will be keynoting. [...]
I’ll be talking about how and why I built Cullect.com at the Feburary 12th UPA-MN event. The agenda: Developing a product you will use and the way you will use it. Designing the API as the primary user interface. A tour of some of the innovative UI concepts behind Cullect. An activity in which you [...]
Awesome! MinneDemo is back at Intermedia Arts. As of this writing, all the demo slots are open. But that doesn’t matter, you’ll be there – whoever is demo-ing. So RSVP already.
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]