As part of our Future Practice webinar series, we're interviewing presenters to give you a preview of what they'll cover. Next up is John Ferrara on Extending Game Design to Business Applications. An information architect at The Vanguard Group, John has been published in Boxes & Arrows, Interactions, and presented at venues including the IA Summit and EuroIA. His work is featured in the upcoming Rosenfeld Media book, Search Analytics.

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If you missed our last two live Future Practice webinars—Ginny Redish's "Content as Conversation" or James Kalbach's "Principles of Web Navigation"—fear not: both recordings are now on sale at US$69 each. These recordings have been edited and each runs approximately one hour long; and, like all of our digital products, they are free of DRM restrictions. Learn more and purchase here.

Speaking of webinars: next up is John Ferrara's "Extending Game Design to Business Applications," scheduled for July 16 at 1pm EDT. Fascinating topic; please join us then!

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Insight Publishing has translated Luke Wroblewski's Web Form Design: Filling In the Blanks into Korean. You can learn more from their announcement and the listing on their site.

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We're very excited to announce that Rosenfeld Media is developing a new title, Designing for Care: The design disciplines as critical healthcare professions. Informatics designer Peter Jones of Redesign Research, author of Team Design, and an expert on the intersection of design and healthcare, is writing this book. It will be our first industry "vertical" UX book, and we can't imagine a more important (or ambitious!) place to start than healthcare.

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As part of our Future Practice webinar series, we're interviewing presenters to give you a preview of what they'll cover. Next up is Jim Kalbach on The Principles of Web Navigation: Advanced Design Techniques. A librarian by background, Jim is perhaps best known for his O'Reilly book, Designing Web Navigation.

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We've been huge fans of the growing UX Book Club movement ever since it was a twinkle in Steve Baty's and Andrew Boyd's eyes. In a few months, about 60 clubs have cropped up in locations all around the world (is there one in your area? if not, start one; it's easy). Just this month, there are over 20 meetings, from Auckland to Warsaw.

If you're an organizer, here's how Rosenfeld Media can help:

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Answer: Follow us on Twitter (rosenfeldmedia) and you'll automatically be entered in a monthly drawing. Win and we'll ship you the book of your choice. That's it!

Following us on Twitter also means that you'll be the first on your block to learn about our new books and webinars, and you'll receive nice discounts on our products and more, such as industry conferences that our pals put on.

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As part of our Future Practice webinar series, we're interviewing presenters to give you a preview of what they'll cover. Next up is Ginny Redish on content as conversation. Ginny's long list of accomplishments include co-authoring (with JoAnn Hackos) the classic User and Task Analysis for Interface Design, her soon-to-be-considered-classic Letting Go of the Words, and serving as a mentor to many in the field.

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