Speakeasy, the great DSL provider I’ve been with for 4 years just announced they’re being acquired for $97 million by Best Buy (press release) a company I feel lukewarm towards. “I am pleased to announce that Speakeasy has been acquired by Best Buy… our new relationship will help us realize our goals of becoming the [...]
The Walker Art Center and AIGA is pairing up again to have their March graphic design lecture series. Insights usually host no surprises for me these days. You’ll have a mix of academia, hip, highly theoretical, and your dull lecturers. Normally I find my self saying, OK, ya, nice work. But it ends up feeling [...]
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: [...]
This is the first of a new ongoing series here at MNteractive where I sit down with the companies in the Twin Cities’ web community. To kick it off, I talk with the Refactr team; Ben, Jesse, and Scott, to talk about how they’re building a software consulting company on the agile software development, Groovy [...]
The Action Figures are a small, rapid software prototyping team being developed within The Geek Squad…The action figures will be divided into 3 groups: Operating system level, Web-based ‘live’ application level, and software quality testing….this role will rapidly design and develop prototypes….A demonstrated background in user experience design is strongly preferred. The vision of a [...]
Sean McKay and Jennifer Bohmbach of Sun.com will be talking about how they redesigned the Sun.com homepage at the Feb 21st MIMA event held at Windows on Minnesota. Register at MIMA.org
It’s the new year, and if one of your resolutions was to get a new job, there’s a bunch of organizations looking for information architects and web designers. Here’s 11 that crossed my desk this week: Ameriprise- VP Interactive Marketing Room and Board – Information Architect Ameriprise – Information Architect Manager Ideapark – Information Architect [...]
If you happen to be attending Guy Kawasaki‘s talk at the UofM’s McNamara Alumni Center this Friday, stop by a little early, say, 11:30. Graeme Thickin is coordinating a blogger meetup. I’ll be there. If you aren’t planning on listening to Guy map entrepreneurship to pond hockey – stop by anyway, we’ve haven’t seen you [...]
I checked out the vita.mn launch party last night at the Fine Line. I thought it was odd to throw the launch months after the site was officially up – then after talking with Matt Thompson, it was clear, the party was for the brand new vita.mn dead-tree edition. Available every Thursday. I caught a [...]
Job opportunity at U.S. Bank… Things you’ve done: Creative strategy Branding and identity systems Testing of concepts, including focus groups Working as part of an experience design group that incorporates information architecture and usability. Demonstrated understanding of and proficiency in leveraging an industry-standard development methodology, such as the Rational Unified Process. Experience with design for [...]