Jared Spool is in town this Monday and will have an informal meet-up with local UX people. These get-togethers have proven to be of great interest and are usually well attended. I look forward to joining fellow UPA members for this event as well as others in the local user experience community. Please feel […]
In the second MNteractive Podcast Profile, I talk with Jonathan Dahl, Todd Emmel, Luke Francl over at Slantwise Design’s Hopkins headquarters.
It’s a fast-paced 15 minutes, covering; the history of Slantwise, the difference between a web site and a web app, Ruby on Rails’ bias towards developing web applications faster, what that means for people […]
I just got the email that the 2007 Minnesota Cup kicks off today.
From their email (emphasis mine):
“We have great stories like that of HealthSimple, who were finalist in the 2005 program and have gone on to great success, including the recent acquisition of their business by McNeil Nutritionals, a Johnson & Johnson company.”
No other mention […]
“My one big concern is how, at this Summit, I saw no examples of interesting work built on IA principles. The presentations are all very process and framework oriented. Can you imagine going to a graphic design conference and not seeing books, posters, collateral? Or to an architecture conference, and there are no pictures or […]
“The Groovy Users of Minnesota is a new group (I may have mentioned). We meet every second Tuesday currently at The Coffee Grounds in Falcon Heights but that may change from time to time. Go to Groovy.mn for more info.” - Ben Edwards
Looks like February’s deep freeze got to Ben Tesch and Sam Utne. Both are heading off in opposite directions.
Word is, they’re off to evangelize the Midwest’s tech community by infiltrating either coast. It’s nice they’re on our side. Whew.
Good luck to you both.
Ben Moore, from Curbly, talks about the need for a project to start with the interface design. All his points are dead on.
In my decade of experience, a website isn’t real to clients until they see some pictures, sketches, something, anything. With this in mind, my goal is to provide initial wireframes (black and […]
The and brillant minds at slantwisedesign just launched Better Together (goesbetter.com). It’s a new toy site where you tell the world how much better pointless and web applications, human blood and ice cream, and chocolate and peanut butter are, um, well, together.
Aside from the possibility of entertaining and pairs, I foresee some interesting pair-battles: […]
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