Category Archives: General

August UX Meetup: REDUX More Heated Words and Even Colder Beer!

Please join us for the next Twin Cities UX Meetup on Monday, August 9th, at the Red Stag.
The July session was such a rousing success full of conversation and discussion that we thought we’d do it again. It’s the perfect activity for summer, not too much deep thinking and a casual time.
Let’s get together and [...]

July TC UX Meetup: Heated Words & Cold Beer

Please join us for the next Twin Cities UX Meetup on Monday, July 12, at the Red Stag.
Let’s get together and pick over some UX bones of contention! Do you have a UX topic about which you feel passionately contrary? Are people you work with doing some really stupid things that could be done in [...]

UX Book Club: June 14th

Please join us for the next UX Book Club on Monday, June 14, 2010, 6-9pm.

Modular Web Design: Creating Reusable Components for User Experience Design and Documentation.
DATE
June 14, 2010 (2nd Monday of the month)
TIME
6-9pm
LOCATION
Wilde Roast Cafe parlor room
518 Hennepin Ave. E. • Minneapolis, MN 55414
612.331.4544

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 [...]

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 [...]