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 [...]
As a recently laid off web builder, I’ve been keeping an eye on the Craigslist job postings on a daily basis. Sometimes this leads to interesting job leads. Sometimes it’s pure entertainment. One trend I’ve noticed… “I’m looking for a rock star freelance visual designer to work with me on several projects…” “…is seeking rock [...]
We had a small but engaged book club tonight at Wilde Roast in Minneapolis. The book on the schedule was Designing the Obvious by Robert J. Hoekman, Jr. (@rhjr on Twitter) He has offered to have a call with the Minneapolis UX book club if we want to set one up, chime in on comments [...]
Thanks to Evantage Consulting for sponsoring last night’s UX Meetup. Toby won the $50 drawing for Wilde Roast! Andrew Janis drew in a big crowd last night, we packed the room, and there was a lively and engaging 2-hour discussion of web analytics, reviewing the Animal Humane Society website as an example. Below are [...]
Happy mid-winter Twin Cities UX’ers – Our next UX Meetup is March 9, 6-8pm at Wilde Roast. Come join us to learn from Andrew Janis of Evantage Consulting how to use web analytics to learn about our user’s experience. He’ll review the Animal Humane Society website (http://www.animalhumanesociety.org) using Google Analytics to give us a glimpse [...]
We held our first UX Book Club this week at Wilde Roast coffee house in Minneapolis, MN. It was a small but extremely engaged group.
Local enterepreneur Philip Hotchkiss has started Twitter Challenges and the winner of his first challenge: “Best New Biz Concept in 1 Tweet” is MNteractive’s own Darrel Austin for his Google-backup idea. “darrelaustin: @PhilipHotchkiss (re: idea) a paid service (minimal fee) that automatically backs up your entire Google Account (ie, your life) nightly.” Congrats Darrel. Darrel [...]
Forbes recently ran a oxymoronishly titled article about CrowdSpring: The Creativity of Crowds. Ugh. Design contests. Whatever…I’ll roll my eyes and go on to the next link… But then a twitter conversation kicked off with someone asking for some advice on their CrowdSpring sourced logos. And that got me thinking about how these design contest [...]
(Haven’t been posting in a while. Thought I’d clean out some old posts that were stuck in ‘draft limbo’) I thought I’d try and start a series of posts that point out interesting designers and artists around town that I’ve stumbled upon via my web travels. I thought I’d start with a list of type-related [...]
While digging through my pile of old dead-tree portfolio work, I came across a paper I did in 1995 titled “The Future of Graphic Design: Designing for the World Wide Web.” I can’t promise that it’ll an exciting read in all of its scanned-in-bitmap-text glory complete with typos and bad grammar, but some of you [...]