Kristina Halvorson’s Content Strategy webinar recording on sale
Content strategy is (finally) being recognized as critical to any web site’s health, and Kristina Halvorson is regarded as one of the world’s top content strategists. See (and hear) why: purchase her hour-long webinar recording “Content Strategy for Websites” for US$69. This was one of our most widely attended live webinars; here’s your chance to get up to speed with content strategy.
Donna Spencer’s “Card Sorting” now on sale
Yes, it’s finally here! Card Sorting: Designing Usable Categories, by Donna Spencer, is now available in both paperback and digital editions.
A whole book on card sorting, you ask?
New Video Series: “Rosenfeld Questions”
We’ve launched a new series of “Rosenfeld Questions” – short videos with Lou and other guests that answer topical questions. Give them a watch and let us know what topics you’d like to see covered!
We’ve moved
Well, technically Lou has moved, and as a virtual company, our mailing address is his mailing address. The best way to contact us remains email, but if you need to reach us via the USPS, our Contact page has the information you need.
Webinar news: Shedroff recording available, and price cuts
Based on tweets and early sales, Nathan Shedroff’s brand new book, Design Is the Problem, is making quite an impression. Nathan recently gave a Future Practice webinar on designing sustainably, and the recording is now available for purchase at the newly lowered price of US$69. (Here’s a 4-minute preview via BlipTV.)
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Help us test EPUB format?
Like just about every publisher, we’re grappling with working out our ebook publishing strategy. Many of you have expressed interest in the EPUB format, an open standard that can be read on iPhones and Sony Readers.
Now on sale: Nathan Shedroff’s “Design Is the Problem”
Great news! Design Is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable is now shipping. By providing designers of all stripes a clear path toward baking sustainability into their thinking and their work, Nathan Shedroff has done all of us—in the broadest sense—a wonderful and necessary service. It’s fair to claim that this book will change the way you design. Learn more from the book site, or read Core 77’s interview with Nathan and book excerpt.
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UX BookMobile comes to Denver
The UX BookMobile will be bumming around later this week’s IA Summit, flaunting Rosenfeld Media books in five fancy formats, distributing deep discounts, aggrandizing our authors, and otherwise gadding about on four wheels like no other bookmobile you’ve ever seen at an IA conference. Please stop by and say hello, check out our wares, tell us what titles you’d like to see us tackle, and how we could do better in general. Thanks!
Our ebook strategy: feedback, please!
We’ve been muddling over how exactly to support the burgeoning demand for ebooks. As a publisher, it’s a hugely confusing mix of readers (like Stanza), devices (like Kindle, Sony Reader, and the iPhone) and formats (like PDF and Epub). Our ebook strategy is a work in progress: we’d love your input on our current plan:
- So far: we’ve been providing our books as DRM-free PDFs that have been optimized for on-screen use (yes, we’ve actually tested the design with real-live users).
- Definite plan: We’ll soon start providing another variety of PDF (also DRM-free). It’s a printer-optimized version (toner-hungry elements deleted) that we hope will satisfy those who want to make their laser printers earn their keep.
- Does this make sense? Three ideas:
- Embed high-resolution images in our screen-optimized PDFs. We’re trying this now and it actually works pretty well when you use Acrobat Reader. The resolution is better than what you’d get from our Flickr feed, and you don’t have to go online.
- Support Epub, which works on the iPhone and Sony Reader. It looks like Epub files can be generated from InDesign, which is what we use to lay out our books.
- Wait on the Kindle: it doesn’t seem good at support books with lots of images and lots of color. Yet.
Does this sound like a reasonable plan for a small publisher to take in Q1 2009? You’re the customer; please let us know!
Tomorrow’s webinar: Nathan Shedroff on Sustainable Design
In his hour long webinar, Nathan will be covering many of the topics in his new book, Design Is the Problem, which, along with the recorded version of the webinar, is included in the ticket price. Hope you’ll join us at 1pm EDT tomorrow!
