Communities need placemaking resources to help win the talent battle

From economic development focused on tech to arts districts, downtown revitalization and neighborhood stabilization efforts; and from parks and trails improvements to new entertainment venues and enhanced education programs — Indiana communities are are stepping up to improve the quality of life for their residents, which ultimately helps to attract people and jobs. This is […]

User experience conference built from ground up around ‘what’s next’ in UX and maker movement

The highly anticipated Midwest UX 2014 user experience conference is just around the corner, so I checked in with Noelle Webster, one of four primary volunteer organizers from the host city of Indianapolis. As you would expect from a UX conference, the Midwest UX website is packed with great information, but I did come up […]

Angie’s List campus to be a destination

You know Angie’s List as a reviews service that captured millions of customers on the foundation of trustworthy data and those now famous commercials. What you don’t know is that the company is taking 20-years of reviews and turning them into user-friendly products that make it easier than ever to hire a local service provider. […]

Discovering My Indianapolis: The Xtern Experience

Community: a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals. It may not be fair for me to say that Indianapolis was my first community experience. It might be more reasonable to say that Indy gave me the first sense of a truly tangible community, one whose benefits […]

6 reasons to go to Midwest user experience conference

Midwest UX is a conference geared toward user experience designers, but also covers topics relevant to developers, content strategists, marketers, entrepreneurs, and more. It’s a non-profit enterprise, and the user experience conference organizers and producers are all volunteers each year. This is the fourth year for the conference. It moves to different locations each year to […]