Good news for prototyping enthusiasts
We’re very pleased to be partnering with our friends at Keynotopia on a holiday bundle: their awesome prototyping tools, our awesome Prototyping book (in four digital formats), all for US$22 (a US$76 value).
The offer’s only good until New Year’s day, so now’s the time to check it out!
One answer may win you a book
Let’s say you’re a user experience practitioner, a designer, or a user researcher. Or any of the other titles you might associate with these terms. And you work for a large organization that occasionally brings in outside experts to teach UX-related courses in-house.
The question: who is responsible for identifying the expert and the course they should teach?
40% off everything through January 1
If you’ve been hankering for one of our books or webinars, 40% off is a great deal.
And if you’ve been furtively desirous of our entire collection, it’s an insanely great deal. That’s because we’ve just made the seven-book Rosenfeld Media Library available as a package, itself at a large discount. When you add the two discounts, the paperback+digitals price goes from $199.00 to $119.40 (that works out to $17.06 for each book in five formats, including a lovely paperback). The digitals-only price goes from $99.00 to $59.40 (or $8.49 per book for four digital formats, including ePub and MOBI).
To take advantage of this great deal, enter code HOLIDAY40 at checkout. This offer ends on New Year’s Day.
And speaking of the holidays, your friends at Rosenfeld Media wish you a great one!
Rachel Hinman will chart “The Mobile Frontier”
UX practitioners who want to design better mobile experiences have little guidance in book form. It’s not surprising, given how quickly the mobile landscape is changing.
That’s why we’re excited by The Mobile Frontier, the book that Rachel Hinman has just signed to write for Rosenfeld Media. As you’ll see from her outline, Rachel will cover practical lessons that are technology independent, and map out the hairy challenges that designers need to start working through right away. So the book’s value will be evergreen despite the dynamism of mobile design. And Rachel’s got killer experience working for Nokia, Adaptive Path and Yahoo! that should come in quite handy.
You can keep up with Rachel’s work at her book-in-progress site. And thanks for helping spread the word!
Happy birthday, UX Book Clubs!
Two years old. And, according to the UX Book Club wiki, over 100 clubs around the world. From Portland to Perth, chances are there’s a UX Book Club near you where you can discuss books, network, and have a great time. And if there isn’t? Then start one; it’s incredibly easy.
To help mark the occasion, we’re donating five of our books to the UX Book Clubs’ birthday contest. To enter, tweet the reason you love the UXBC and include the hash tag #uxbookclub2. Do it by November 24.
And while we’re on the subject, remember that publishers like us are more than happy to give free stuff and discounts to clubs that discuss our books.
Yoni Knoll and Peter Bogaards: new board members
It keeps getting better: InfoDesign’s Peter Bogaards has joined our editorial board, and Yoni Knoll of InfinityPlusOne is now part of our strategic board.
Peter’s work as one of the community’s most important content scouts makes him an obvious choice to help shape Rosenfeld Media’s editorial agenda. Yoni has been instrumental in the overhaul of the soon-to-relaunch UX Zeitgeist service. Both are uniquely talented, connected, and loved within the UX community. And we’re grateful to have them both on our side.
Incredible package of UX tools
This really is quite a great deal: over US$5,000 of usability tools—including all seven of our titles in lovely digital formats—for US$1,350. Optimal Workshop’s package includes Silverback, Loop 11, Ethnio, KISS Metrics and more, as well as their own goodies. The deal is good on November 11 only—World Usability Day, so you can’t possibly forget it. So check it out!
Our books are now Kindle-friendly
From the moment we started publishing, we offered digital editions of our books. At first, if you purchased directly from us, we included a screen-optimized PDF that you could download and use immediately. Then we started offering printer-optimized PDFs for people who’d prefer to print our books themselves, rather than pay and wait for a paperback to be shipped. Earlier this year we started offering ePub editions for use on iPads, iPhones, and Android devices. And now, at your request, we’re pleased to provide Kindle-compliant MOBI versions of each of our books.
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Please subscribe to the newsletter that’s not (yet)
Some time this winter, Rosenfeld Media will start publishing a newsletter.
It’s tentatively named SevenPlusOrMinusTwo. (Or 7+-2. Or 7PlusOrMinus2. You can see how this could get tricky.)
New book signing: “Service Design” by Polaine, Reason, & Løvlie
During her talk at this month’s IDEA Conference, Cindy Chastain referred to Rosenfeld Media’s efforts to develop an ecosystem from scratch. While that’s not quite right—we’ve tried to plug gaps within the existing UX ecosystem—we definitely appreciate the need to view people, content, and products and services as part of a holistic, interdependent ecosystem.
So it should be no surprise that we’ll be publishing Service Design: Designing useful, usable and desirable services. We’re convinced that individual products and services (and designers) succeed when whole systems succeed, and that Andy Polaine, Ben Reason, and Lavrans Løvlie are the right people to show designers how. Andy’s quite respected in the UX community for, among other good works, the Designer’s Review of Books. Ben and Lavrans help run live|work, the UK firm that’s done perhaps the most in evangelizing service design practices.
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