Category Archives: UX Meetup

May 2010 UX Meetup – May 10, Wilde Roast Cafe, 6-9 PM

Please join us for the next Twin Cities UX Meetup on Monday, May 10, 2010, 6-9pm.
Garrick Van Buren be discussing how Cucumbers are the future of interaction design artifacts, prototyping, and User Experience design.
DATE & TIME
May 10, 2010 (2nd Monday of the month)
LOCATION
Wilde Roast Cafe parlor room
518 Hennepin Ave. E. • [...]

WED April 28th: TALK – The Art & Science of Seductive Interactions at Clockwork Active Media Systems

UPA, UX Meetup, and Clockwork Active Media Systems are proud to present an evening with Stephen Anderson. We hope to see you there!
WHAT’S HAPPENING
The Art & Science of Seductive Interactions
How can we design interactions that encourage specific behaviors?
A while back, LinkedIn experimented with a feature: a little meter above the users’ information, showing their profile’s [...]

March UX Meetup – March 8, Wilde Roast Cafe, 6-9 PM

Please join us for the next Twin Cities UX Meetup on Monday, March 8.
First, we’ll discuss the Interaction10 conference. Some TC UXers who went will offer their take on the big ideas that came out of it and how they can apply those ideas to their work. If you want to get a sense of [...]

No January 2010 UX Meetup – ColdStart Instead

Apologies for the delay, our plans for the January UX Meetup have unfortunately fallen through – so we’ve decided not to fight it and instead, return in February (announcement post forthcoming).
But it’s winter in Minnesota – and you need to get out more – so come over to CoCoMSP the new collaboration and co-working space [...]

December UX Meetup – December 14, 2009, Glueks, 6-8pm

The next Twin Cities UX Meetup will be Monday, December 14. We’re discussing how UX at an agency compares to in-house UX. Kevin Farner from Gomoll Research and Design will facilitate.
Ideas for topics might include:
Types of projects
Types of work —IA, content strategy, content development, SEO….
Project management approaches
Project teams
UX teams
Titles & roles
Timelines
Deliverables
Logging hours
DATE & TIME
December 14, [...]

Recap: 10/12 UX Meetup @ Sen Yai Sen Lek Thai

We had a lively and varied discussion last Monday with the group that turned out for our October UX meetup.  Some topics that arose:

UnSummit compared to open space technology (imagine a summit with no set schedule or speakers, just one big question or problem to be addressed)
Mentorship – how can people find potential mentors, and [...]

Twin Cities UX Meetup Oct 12, 2009 – Sen Yai Sen Lek Thai

The next Twin Cities UX Meetup will be on Monday, October 12 at Sen Yai Sen Lek in northeast Minneapolis.
This will be an open discussion – let’s hang out, talk UX and eat spring rolls.
If you have something you’d like to discuss (prototyping techniques, user research in the age of mobile Twitter, selling UX to [...]

UX Book Club June 8: Communicating Design by Dan Brown

Happy summer Twin Cities UX’ers –(even though it feels like October outside!)
We met June 8, 6-8pm at Wilde Roast to discuss the book Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning by Dan Brown.
The conversation was facilitated by Stephanie. She manages a User Experience team at U.S. Bank. She told us a story [...]