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  • June Event: The Journey of Wander: A mobile app that creates adventures

    • 13 Jun 2013
    • 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
    • Roseville Library, Community Program Room
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    Join us Thursday, June 13th, as Natalie Doud takes us through her journey of creating her mobile app Wander. Winner of the 2011 University of Minnesota Mobile App Challenge, Natalie will discuss what it takes to go from an initial idea to a final product. She will share unexpected insights and amusing anecdotes from her experience working on Wander, an app that will allow users to "Find hidden gems with a goal-based adventure tailored to you."

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    Natalie's presentation will focus on the design iterations and user testing that Wander has gone through and the lessons learned along the way.

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    Agenda
    - Meet and greet with refreshments: 6:30 - 7:00 PM
    - Presentation with Q&A: 7:00 - 8:30 PM
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    Location
    Roseville Library
    Roseville, MN 55113 
    Room: Community Program Room
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    About the Speaker
    Natalie Doud is the founder of Synaptic Design, a human-centered design and engineering firm. Her company focuses on translational research, interactive design, and branding. Natalie’s iPhone application Wander is the winner of the University of Minnesota’s 2011 Mobile Application Challenge. Wander finds a city’s hidden gems by creating a goal-based adventure tailored to a user’s interests and preferences. Natalie consults on user experience and interactive design and has worked with large and small companies including Target, Thrivent Financial, and Worrell Inc. Natalie and her team lead creativity workshops for agencies and corporations. These workshops improve team cohesion by creating a low-stakes environment to practice collaboration and ideation.
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Past events

09 May 2013 May Event: Design and Innovation: The Human Perspective
11 Apr 2013 April Event: Implementing Lean UX in an agency environment
14 Mar 2013 March Event: Resuscitating Walt: Story Mapping and Story Telling Experiences at Disney
21 Feb 2013 February Event: The Road to Redesign: Applying UX Strategies to Handle Skeptical Speed-bumps
10 Jan 2013 January Event: UX meets Agile Development in CaringBridge 5.0
13 Nov 2012 November Social Event: Rosenfeld Media/Brain Traffic Happy Hour with Lou Rosenfeld, Susan Weinschenk, and Steve Krug
08 Nov 2012 UxPA November Event: World Usability Day
08 Nov 2012 UM Event: World Usability Day: "Usability as Service Learning" at the Univ. of MN
11 Oct 2012 October Event: Behind the Scenes at The Nerdery
04 Oct 2012 Measuring the User Experience: A Workshop on Usability Metrics
13 Sep 2012 September Event: UX Design Process at Worrell
09 Aug 2012 August Event: Microsoft’s Windows 8 Design & User Experience
12 Jul 2012 July Event: Hands-On (and Eyes and Ears) Accessibility Workshop
14 Jun 2012 June Event: The Value of Remote Usability Testing
10 May 2012 May Event: Teaching UX Design: A Peek into a University of Minnesota Graphic Design Class
12 Apr 2012 April Event: Designing for Behavior Change
08 Mar 2012 March Event: Designing Social Media Communication Tools for the Workplace
09 Feb 2012 February Event: How Contextual Inquiries Can Change Design Direction
10 Nov 2011 World Usability Day 2011: EDUCATION: Designing for Social Change
13 Oct 2011 UPA MN October 2011 Meeting: UPA Goes to Target Field
23 Jun 2011 UPA MN June 2011 Meeting: UX Design for the Largest Agile Project You've Never Heard Of
17 May 2011 UPA MN May 2011 Meeting: Integrated Product Development with David Hussman
14 Apr 2011 UPA MN April 2011 Meeting - Winning Big in UX: Changing the Problem-Solving Culture in Organizations
16 Mar 2011 UPA MN March 2011 Meeting: Roundtable Discussion
13 Jan 2011 UPA MN January 2011 Meeting - Best Practices in Mobile Web Design
02 Dec 2010 UPA MN December 2010 Meeting - DESIGNING INTERFACES FOR DIGITAL/PHYSICAL SPACES
11 Nov 2010 UPA MN November 2010 Meeting - The Real Deal: Content Strategy
14 Oct 2010 UPA MN October 2010 Meeting - It's Coming From Inside the House: Discovering the Mobile User
15 Sep 2010 UPA MN September 2010 Meeting: Getting Design into the Corporate DNA
10 Jun 2010 UPA MN June 2010 Meeting: Neuro Web Design - What Makes Them Click?
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08 Apr 2010 UPA MN April 2010 Meeting: Exploring the Online Research Methodology
11 Mar 2010 UPA MN March 2010 Meeting: Products over Process: Advancing Agility with Design Thinking
11 Feb 2010 UPA MN Febuary Meeting: Help is out there: Online community, community artifacts, new ways of harnessing knowledge
14 Jan 2010 UPA MN January Meeting: Psychological Tools for Designing Experiences
 
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