Designing a better world. 

The Makery mission is make opportunity for others in the world. 25% of all of our profits go to fueling design apprenticeships for disadvantaged students and adults. These future Makers come to the Makery, learn real world skills in design and technology, work on projects, and gain lifelong skills to propel their lives, and our mission. 

Award Winning UX/UI that gives back

From Fortune 500 companies to startups, we fuse business strategy with user experience and interface design to make experiences users love. Then, we invest 25% of profits to fuel creative apprenticeships that teach diverse and low-income students real world design skills. ​

Design

The Makery fuses business strategy, awarding winning UI/UX design to make digital experiences  businesses and users love. 

Apprenticeships

25% of all profits go to our Apprenticeships for low-income students who learn valuable design skills in a real world environments. 

Bootcamp (Coming Soon)

Are you a graphic designer looking grow your digital skills? Maybe you work with User Experience Designers and want to learn more? 

A Makers Value

Make Others Successful

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Regardless of talent, we’ve all had someone reach out and give us help in our professional journeys. Whether through our apprenticeship program, bootcamps, career day events, or just though grabbing a cup of coffee, making others successful is a value we live every single day.

Located in North Minnepolis

We believe the right creative environment is essential for breakthrough design. We're excited to announce that we are growing, and moved into our new office located in North Minneapolis. We're excited to take our design sprints to the next level, host Meetups and collaborate with our partners. You can follow along on Twitter and Instagram. 

A Makers Approach

Less, But Better

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Taken from Dieter Rams, “less but better” informs our design practice as well as our way of life. We are dedicated to simplicity and sustainability. It is through this ever constant perspective that we can focus only on essential aspects; a return back to purity, back to simplicity.

The Design Portfolio: A Managers Perspective

A design portfolio is a rare opportunity to show potential employers the depths of thinking, crispness of approach and versatility of skills. Moreover, a well-crafted portfolio isn't just showing what you've done; it's showing the potential of what you can be. 

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A Makers Mindset

Design Matters.

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We have many designers and creative organizations that inspire us - we hope, we can inspire others too. We pride ourselves in thoughtful, fresh and unique approaches to design. In doing so, we will make design that stands apart - and will truly matter to clients and users.

Design Gets Down to Business

We've seen it over an over - a designer goes into a meeting with business executives, shows them a great user experience. The designer talks about the slickness of UI, the freshness of the brand creative and the quickness of the UX interactions. The response? Blank stares. 

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Better Design, 
Better Business.

Recent Design

Dismantling Inequalities in the Workplace

As The Makery is a User Experience Design firm, this topic is one pressing importance. Though the User Experience discipline has made powerful progress in gender diversity, African Americans in User Experience Design, particularly in the midwest, has much room for improvement. Simply, our users come from all backgrounds, so should our designers.

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