We’re now fully Kindle-ized
All of our books are now available via Amazon’s Kindle Store. Of course, you can always purchase our books in MOBI format—along with ePub, screen-optimized PDF, printer-optimized PDF, and paperback—directly from us.
Rosenfeld Media at UX Lisbon
UX Lisbon starts tomorrow, and we’re thrilled to be there in force! Not only are is Rosenfeld Media a sponsor, but six of our authors are on the incredible program:
Survey book of the month, April 2011
All of us need to look out at our competitors, right? So I’ve been buying a selection of the various books on surveys that are aimed at the general market. Rather to my surprise, I’m making one of them my book of the month for April. It is:
Online Surveys for Dummies by Vivek Bhaskaran and Jennifer LeClaire (Wiley).
Horton and Quesenbery to tackle Web Accessibility
Accessibility is one of those issues that seems to lurk in the back of many a designer’s mind. Can’t ignore it, especially as it becomes an increasingly frightening Legal Thing. But don’t want to deal with it; after all, it’ll screw up the design, right?
Not right. You can have a design that’s both accessible and enjoyable if you follow universal design principles. That’s what Universal Design for Web Accessibility: Solutions for barrier-free user experiences, the newest Rosenfeld Media book-in-progress, will teach you. Written by Sarah Horton, co-author of the Web Style Guide, and Whitney Quesenbery, co-author of our own Storytelling for User Experience, Universal Design for Web Accessibility will provide you with the practical principles and examples you’ll need to create sites that everyone can use.
We’re thrilled to be working with Sarah and, for a second time, Whitney. And we’re looking forward to their book coming out in 2012, a year which promises a lot of new Rosenfeld Media titles.
SUS Svensk: System Usability Scale in Swedish
Recently, I wrote about SUS: a good enough usability questionnaire, the scale devised by John Brookes.
Bengt Göransson commented that he uses it as part of his ‘tool box’, pointing out that it is important to use it alongside other methods to capture efficiency and effectiveness. He has kindly given me permission to publish his Swedish translations here:
System Usability Scale in Swedish:
SUS-svensk.pdf
Instructions for the user about how to fill in the questionnaire:
SUS-följebrev-svensk.pdf
Survey book of the month, March 2011
Surveys are all about getting numeric data, and then reporting on it. What points do you want to make with those numbers? I’ll assume that you are aiming to be honest, respecting your data and your audience.
One fun way of learning about the tricks that people play with data, or perhaps the mistakes that they make inadvertently, is to read my March pick for survey book of the month:
Darrell Huff (1954) “How to lie with statistics”
Published in the US by W. W. Norton & Company with illustrations by Irving Geis; in the UK by Penguin with illustrations by Calman.
Huff aims to teach us “how to look a phoney statistic in the eye and face it down; and no less
important, how to recognize sound and usable data in [the] wilderness of
fraud”.
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Free pass to Healthcare Experience Design conference (and a set of our books)
Update: And the winners are… Sarah Mitchell (@sgmitch), who will be attending the Healthcare Experience Design conference on a free pass, and Zoran Krnetic (@krneticz), who will receive a complete set of our books. Congratulations, Sarah and Zoran!
Interested in healthcare and UX? Then you should be attending the Healthcare Experience Design Conference (Boston, April 11). It’s being organized by Mad*Pow and Claricode, and our own Peter Jones is participating in their stellar program.
And now you can win a free conference pass (a $595 value) or a complete set of Rosenfeld Media books—all it takes is a tweet! Here’s how:
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Our O’Reilly partnership now official
Last month we gave you a heads-up that O’Reilly Media would soon be selling the digital versions of our books through all channels (other than, of course, our own site). Partnering with O’Reilly makes it much easier for a small publisher like Rosenfeld Media to get its products into the burgeoning array of digital channels, like the Android Market, Apple’s iTunes and iBookstore, and the Safari library. Plus O’Reilly is just a great company for us to partner with.
Soon is today, and to commemorate this auspicious event, O’Reilly is offering the digital versions of our books at 50% off through their site. Take advantage of this great deal before the day is done!
Test our first book! (in Manhattan, October 11)
We at Rosenfeld Media love to eat our own dog food, so to speak. As a publisher of user experience books, we’re looking to apply some usability research strategies to test both print and digital editions of our first book, Indi Young’s Mental Models. To do this, we need your help.
We are looking for volunteers who can come in for 45 minutes or so on Thursday, October 11. You will be asked to answer some questions about yourself and the book, and to perform a few tasks, such as locating information within the book. The sessions will take place at the lovely offices of Behavior Design in Manhattan (40 West 27th Street, Suite 401; map).
We’re offering a $50 Amazon gift certificate as a thanks to our volunteers.
Please contact us if you need more information or require more convincing.
Test an email client, get a free book
Our new newsletter, the Rosenfeld Review (sign up here), is just about ready to go. But first we’d like to test it out with a few common mail clients. If you use one of the following clients and can spend a few minutes kicking the tires of our newsletter, we’d be glad to send you one of our books in four sparkling digital formats (ePUB, MOBI, screen-optimized PDF, and printer-optimized PDF):
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