The next Twin Cities UX Meetup group will meet October 7 at the Monte Carlo. After September’s riveting discussion on personas (SUPER interesting), we’ll switch gears to discuss “what projects make you want to drink daily?”. Come get some help and support with your gripes and challenges.
Look for Lori Baker and the “UX [...]
As coincidence would have it, next week we have two local events - both admission free - covering the ‘mobile’ internet.
First, on the advertising side is Space150’s Mobile Marketing Workshop, it’s all afternoon on Monday Aug 11th with presentations from lots-o-places including; Nokia, Weather.com, and Yahoo!.
Then, on Tues we’re having the regular MNteractive User Experience [...]
Everything you need to know is in the headline.
In fact, because you’re such an awesome information architect - you know why you’d want to work there, who to contact, and how to contact them.
Hello UX folks –
The next Twin Cities UX Meetup group will meet July 1 at the Monte Carlo. The topic will be “What’s interesting to you about UX these days?”. Come enjoy some delicious Monte Carlo cocktails and chat it up with your local peers!
Look for Garrick, in the patio if the weather [...]
Close on the heels of Kleckner’s move to Brain Traffic, Jay Morgan announces he’s leaving his post as Target’s Senior Information Architect to become Gage Marketing’s new Director of User Experience.
Congrats Jay.
After 3 years as Target’s Information Architecture Manager, Jason Kleckner resigned on Monday. After building out the information architecture practice and an amazingly talented team, he’s leaving to do the same for Kristina Halvorson’s BrianTraffic.
I’ve been “working for myself”1 for 5 years now. In all honesty, the past five years haven’t been that much different than the 5 before that where I was an employee. My professional employee experience was with tech start ups or small professional services firms. Frequently both.
I do the same work, the difference is I’m [...]
Best Buy is looking for an Information Architect that can effectively translate business needs into a sound user experience for BestBuy.com and affiliated companies. The ideal candidate must be a strong communicator and take an active role in understanding industry trends and usability research to aid in their analytical problem solving.
Core Responsibilities
Develop IA solutions that [...]
This month’s topic at for the IA meetup at The Local is social networks with special guests Bruno Borzstein from Curbly.com, Jon Dahl from Slantwise Design - developer of fanchatter.com among others -, and Katie Ware.
Just in time for our conversation, Google announced their Open Social project and the Facebook backlash begins
“I think Facebook is [...]
“Categories organize, hierarchically. Tags need not. Tags provide meta-information, Categories need not. Tags cross-connect, Categories do not.” - Carthik
Frankly, that’s splitting hairs. The notion of ‘tags’ has done 3 things:
Given us an excuse to lauch websites without a pre-defined categorization schema, and allow that schema to grow and change over time.
Made it acceptable for things [...]