Soul of the Midwest
In February 2014, I was in Amsterdam for the Interaction conference. I was high off of finishing my book and I was feeling inspired by the fantastic conference experience the organizers had created for...
View ArticleWith Sponsors in Mind
I wanted to give you, dear reader, a behind-the-scenes look into how we came up with all things sponsor-related for Midwest UX this year. When Jack called me last year and asked me to help with...
View ArticleMidwest UX, Pittsburgh-Style
I didn’t volunteer to be on the Midwest UX 2015 organizing committee. My husband tricked me into it. Bobby was the lone member of the Communications Committee and he asked me to help with “just this...
View ArticleGet Your Hands Dirty
Wow. Think, draw, embrace, joke, leverage, defend…grit, magic, trenches, games, curiosity, sharks…complex, dirty, awesome, real, thriving, honest. OK, you’ve piqued our interest. The submissions are...
View ArticleMobile Cuisine at Midwest UX
Midwest UX is the perfect place for an assembly of food trucks from some of Pittsburgh’s most eclectic eateries. They’ll be outside conference venues Friday during lunch break. We’ll post about...
View ArticleAnticipating a lively workshop: “Social Tools for Change Leaders”
As we planned Midwest UX 2015, we wanted to include something that was open to the local community, and focused on the needs of the community. On Thursday, October 1, Marc Rettig and Hannah du Plessis...
View ArticleFrontier: Building a compelling conference program
A conference is made of many parts, but certainly, the most important part is the program. And let me tell you, we have an awesome program! Over a year ago, as we were putting together our proposal to...
View ArticleExcursions: 11 More Reasons to Love MWUX15
From the moment we learned that Pittsburgh had been selected to host Midwest UX 2015, we knew this event could be more than just a conference. Inviting UXers like you from across the region meant this...
View ArticleMidwest UX Experience
I heard about the Midwest UX Conference from a couple of seasoned local UX designers at an IxDA Pittsburgh morning coffee hang-out in the spring of 2012. At that point, it was the second year of this...
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