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.

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 Meetup” [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Random recent cheap music news

Some recent online music news that seems to have come to my attention in the span of a week: Paul Westerberg (there’s the MN tie to justify the post ;o) has released his latest “album” for 49 cents on Amazon. Sampling maestro Girl Talk has jumped on the NIN/Radiohead bandwagon and released his latest album [...]

Remix MPR at PublicRadioCamp – July 12th, 2008 MPR HQ , St. Paul

Latest word from Dan Grigsby on the upcoming PublicRadioCamp We’re pleased to announce that Jon Gordon, host of Future Tense, American Public Media’s technology broadcast heard on over 100 stations nationwide, will be joining us. We’ve tallied up the resources we’ll have to play with, remix, and generally use as building blocks. These include 37 [...]

Twin Cities IA/UX Meetup: July 1, 2008 5-7pm Monte Carlo

Hello UX folks – The next Twin Cities UX Meetup group will meet July 1 at the Monte Carlo. The topic will be “What’s interesting to you about UX these days?”. Come enjoy some delicious Monte Carlo cocktails and chat it up with your local peers! Look for Garrick, in the patio if the weather [...]

Flashbelt is right around the corner

The biggest, best Adobe Flash Conference to ever be held in the Twin Cities is happening the second week in June (8th-11th) at the Metrodome Holiday Inn. Flashbelt’s line up of speakers, topics, and workshops is as good as any other conference you might consider flying out of town to attend. I had to go [...]