It’s been nearly a decade since Alan Cooper first published The Inmates Are Running the Asylum - a great book stating the obvious: software developers are rarely the people software is developed for.
In it Cooper promotes the use of archetypical descriptions of people, Personas, to keep the software development team focused on the customer.
That […]
Tumblon a new Minneapols-based parenting startup is looking for a Visual Designer and a Marketing/PR manager
Their blog: http://blog.tumblon.com/
Contact Jonathan Dahl for more information.
Hi everybody. We just launched a new site www.creedinteractive.com along with a supporting blog www.web-design-minneapolis.com to see if a blog helps SEO efforts. Please take a look and let us know what you think. We’d be interested to hear your comments. Thanks.
I was perusing the latest HOW Design Annual and came across an article on pricing trends. It was a report on the data HOW collected via their pricing survey. Two numbers popped out at me. The first was the low range of hourly graphic design work in the Midwest: $17. Wow. That person must have […]
Well, it serves me right for being completely off the AIGA radar these days, but esteemed design book author and critic Steven Heller is going to be here on November 1 for a lecture hosted by the College of Visual Arts at the History Center in St. Paul. Alas, it’s sold out. But there WILL […]
Time for a Friday break from pixels. Let’s talk books.
The family headed out to their favorite place the other night…B&N. I usually hang out in the kids section where the Thomas the Train set is while the missus does her thing.
Which is just fine, as any graphic designer knows that the ‘cool’ books are all […]
Paula Scher. For HP. Yes, HP. The owners of everyone’s favorite sweat-shop clip art factory: Logoworks.
Paula asks “What do you have to say?”
All I can say is ‘huh?’
My Alma Mater, Larsen Design, now has a blog. What other local ad/design/web firms are actively blogging these days? I’m sure there’s plenty.
Computers are smart. They can do lots of cool things like tell me it’s my turn to pick up the produce from the CSA or load up an interesting blog post for you to read. Unfortunately, ’social network’ startup Pownce.com isn’t buying the smartest computers.
They need to be told the difference between a message, […]
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