Design is the Problem due out in March
Whew! It’s always exciting to send a book off to the printers, especially one that could have such an impact on both the design field and on the environment: Nathan Shedroff’s Design is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable. The printer usually turns around these jobs in four weeks’ time, so we’re very close. Please sign up to be notified when it goes on sale, and we’ll send you a discount code to sweeten the deal.
This week: User Research Beyond Usability
This Thursday’s webinar—User Research Beyond Usability, with Christian Rohrer—should provide an excellent start to the 2009 Future Practice webinar series. Christian takes a step back from specific research methods and does us all the good service of framing the big picture of user research. Along the way, he exposes gaps in the commonly-held practice, specifically around desirability studies.
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Events update: author talks, UX book salons
February through June are always the meat of the conference season, and 2009 is no exception.
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Five new Future Practice webinars scheduled!
Now that we have two successful webinars (on mental models and web form design) under our belts, we’re pushing forward with a monthly series for 2009 with our partners, Smart Experience. We’ve lined up five fantastic presenters—Christian Rohrer (who’s up first, this January 29), Bill Scott, Kristina Halvorson, Ginny Redish, and John Ferrara—and more are on the way.
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Rosenfeld Media kicks off UX Book Salons
(Updated January 6) We’re starting our new monthly UX Book Salon tour tomorrow, right here in Brooklyn, New York, at Huge. What’s a UX Book Salon? And where and when do they take place? Seek and ye shall find.
UX Book Clubs around the world
From the Wish We’d Thought Of It Department: over the past month, about twenty UX Book Clubs have cropped up all over the place. And like any good grass roots movement, there’s a wiki in the mix. Check it out and if you don’t see one in your location listed, add it to the wiki and follow the advice offered there for getting your club going.
Keep up with us on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter
There are now Rosenfeld Media groups that you can join in both LinkedIn and Facebook. And you can keep up with us on Twitter by following our peerless pleader’s tweets (@louisrosenfeld).
A customer service milestone, and a nice discount
Although most of our customers prefer to do business with us directly, many of you opt for purchasing Rosenfeld Media books via Amazon.com’s Marketplace program. We’re happy to work with you that way, and apparently you’re happy too. We just received our hundredth Amazon customer rating: 95 “5”s, and 5 “4”s. Not bad, considering “5” is the most positive rating.
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Mental Models webinar this Thursday (December 11)
Want more mental models? Author Indi Young will teach Using Mental Models for Tactics and Strategy this Thursday, December 11, at 1pm EST.
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Modern Web Form Design recording now on sale
Kicking yourself for missing Luke Wroblewski’s webinar, Modern Web Form Design, last month? Don’t fret; the recorded version is now available for purchase.
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