Looking ahead to 2010
Like everyone else, we’re considering how we’d like the new year to be different than the last one. Following are the areas that we’re tackling right now. (I won’t call them “resolutions”—that just means plans, with little guaranty of actions.) We’d love your input: what’s missing from this list? And are we doing enough in each area?
Hello Europe!
Until the past week or so, we’ve shipped all of our books from a facility outside Detroit, Michigan in the US. While a quick perusal of our shipper ratings at Amazon.com suggests that this arrangement has worked well, many of you have asked us to find a way to lower the price and shorten the shipping time to European addresses.
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Upcoming Author Presentations
We’ve just updated our author events calendar, and as usual, Rosenfeld Media authors will be all over the place: Portugal (UX Lisbon), Germany (UPA 2010), the UK (the Etre Get Together), France (Webdesign International Festival), and many US venues, not to mention virtually as well (at the UIE Virtual Seminar series). We’ll be in force at Interaction10 in Savannah, Georgia, with appearances by Keven Cheng, Luke Wroblewski, and Todd Zaki Warfel. We’ll also be visiting the IA Summit, SXSW, Microsoft MIX 10, and many other events.
Check out the full calendar here.
How to do a survey in six steps
Question: What’s the difference between a questionnaire and a survey?
Answer: A questionnaire is a series of questions and answers on a topic; a survey is the overall process of obtaining useful information using a questionnaire.
Question: OK then, what are the steps in the process?
Answer: Until recently, I was stumped on that one, but after a lot of help from others and some thinking, I have an answer for you…
Mental Models now available in Korean
Our Korean partner, Insight Books, has translated Indi Young’s Mental Models book. You can learn more and order the book at Insight’s web site.
