Category Archives: General

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 [...]

Mounds View: “A Lake That’s Seen Better Days”

A neighboring suburb’s struggles with branding and marketing made the front page of my neighborhood newspaper this week.
From the article “Mounds View continues discussing new tagline” by Kate Garlock, it sounds like a case of equal parts design by committee and crowdsourcing.
Both of which are fine, well-worn strategies and both have a significantly lower upfront [...]

UX Meetup EXTRA

Content Strategy Night
Thursday, Sept. 17
6pm – 8pm
Meet visiting content strategist Rahel Bailie (Intentional Design, Vancouver) for an informal discussion on content, the Web, and everything.
Sen Yai Sen Lek
2422 Central Ave NE,
Minneapolis, MN 55418
(612) 781-3046

Where Pepsi Spends Its Money Competing with Coke

Thanks to Aaron &

UX Book Club: Seth Godin Tribes

Since Seth Godin is coming to the Twin Cities in October, we thought this would be the perfect book to read for UX Book Club. It’s not a User Experience book per se, but it is relevant to us. It’s also a great way to get warmed up for the upcoming MIMA Summit.

DATE & TIME
September [...]

IE6, Transparent PNGs, Background positioning AND hover effects.

Last month YouTube announced that they’ll no longer be supporting IE6. This is welcome news to anyone that has to still deal with IE6. Not sure if that is enough ammo to convince your team to abandon IE6 yet, but it’s a step closer.
As IE6 fades into the background, I tend to use transparent [...]

New Facebook Feature

Dear Facebook:
Please add this feature. Thank you.

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 [...]

TwinCitiesCoWorking.org

Back in March, over at my main blog, I mentioned co-working has been re-ignited locally.
I’m pleased to announce momentum is building and all signs are very positive.
Including the recently launched:
TwinCitiesCoWorking.org site.
Congrats to all involved on getting closer to making this a reality locally.

UX Meetup May 18: Content Strategy with Kristina Halvorson

Happy spring Twin Cities UX’ers –
Our next UX Meetup is May 18, 6-8pm at Wilde Roast. Come join us to learn from Kristina Halvorson of BrainTraffic and discuss Content Strategy.
In the traditional website design process, content requirements definition happens as information architecture develops. In theory, this should successfully set the stage for content development. [...]