Tomorrow: 50% off Web Form Design
This week’s Wacky Wednesday deal: half off Luke Wroblewski’s classic book, Web Form Design, from 12:01am until midnight, GMT-5. We’ll tweet out the discount code from the @rosenfeldmedia Twitter account a few times during the day. Enjoy
Now on sale: Search Analytics for Your Site
We’re pleased to announce that Search Analytics for Your Site, Lou Rosenfeld’s new book, is now available via our site, Amazon, and O’Reilly.
Survey book of the month, June 2011
It’s been a crazy busy month, with wonderful, challenging work to do – but no time to make progress on The Book. I was determined not to let a month go by without a book selection, so I was extra pleased that I had a really short, easy read waiting for you.
Developing a Questionnaire by Bill Gillham (2nd edition, 2008)
Our fearless leader on publishing business models
Lou’s posted his slides for the
talk he’ll give at O’Reilly’s Tools of Change for Publishing conference (February 15 in New York City). Discuss.
And say hello to Lou if you’re at the conference.
Take a quick survey; win a free book?
Call us crazy, but we suspect that there is a growing demand for UX workshops to be taught in-house inside large organizations. We’re exploring connecting our authors and other UX experts with that demand—assuming it’s real.
Would you help us find out? To learn more, we’ve created a really short survey—no required questions—that will take you perhaps a minute to complete. Do so no later than July 7 and you’ll be eligible to win one of five free Rosenfeld Media books.
Thanks for your help!
Steve Portigal to write book on interviewing users
Interviewing users is fundamental to user experience work but, as Steve Portigal cautions, we tend to take it for granted. Because it’s based on talking and listening, skills we think we have, we often wing it. Sadly, we miss out on many of the wonderful opportunities our interviews should reveal.
So we’re thrilled that Steve, who’s contributed regular columns to interactions and Core77, has signed on to write a new Rosenfeld Media book, The Art and Craft of User Research Interviewing, to help UX practitioners really succeed with interviewing. Steve’s book will focus on helping practitioners to better understand users’ perspectives, and to rely upon rapport as the main ingredient in successful user interviews.
Steve’s book is going to be a fantastic contribution to the field, especially with your involvement. Please keep up with (and, when you can, contribute to) Steve’s progress by following his work at the book site (here’s its RSS feed). And of course, we’ll be glad to let you know when the book comes out (and send you a nice discount) if you request to a publication notification.
Axure & Rosenfeld Media UX Giveaway
Axure and Rosenfeld Media have teamed up to give you a chance to win Axure RP licenses, the seven book Rosenfeld Media Library, and Q&A with prototyping experts Fred Beecher and Todd Zaki Warfel.
Entering to win is easy. Before Monday, January 31st at 5PM PST tweet your reply to “My prototyping motto is…” ending with @axurerp @rosenfeldmedia, so we can track it. Enter as many times as you’d like.
Here’s an example: “Don’t forget who the prototype is for! @axurerp @rosenfeldmedia”
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Get $5 to help improve our shopping UX
We’re making a lot of changes to the Rosenfeld Media site (in dribs and drabs; oh, Lord no, not a redesign!). Soon the entire site will sport many of the improvements already in place at UX Zeitgeist. Next on the agenda: fixes to our shopping cart.
Survey book of the month, May 2011
OK, this month it gets serious. My pick is:
Survey Errors and Survey Costs by Robert M. Groves (1989, reprinted 2004).
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Survey that could be better; Radisson
Have you ever had a survey that was sort of OK, but tripped you up with a few questions here and there?
My friend and colleague Gerry Gaffney of Information and Design tweeted about a survey he had a few issues with and it seemed like a good time to start talking about some specific surveys and draw some general lessons from them, particularly as I was able to persuade him to write this guest post. Thanks, Gerry, and here we go.
