Steve has been compiling war stories\u2014some written by you<\/em>\u2014for years. In\u00a0Epic Fail,\u00a0<\/em>he’ll knit\u00a0them together in ways that lead to\u00a0new conclusions, lessons, and maybe even something grander. A design research framework for the next century, perhaps? We’ll see.<\/p>\n Chris’s book will be a wild ride;\u00a0not surprising, given the scope of\u00a0Make It So<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>his last book. Technologies like AI typically outpace\u00a0our abilities to humanize them; I’m hopeful that Chris’s book helps designers\u00a0to dramatically narrow\u00a0that gap.<\/p>\n And a book on the hidden value of\u00a0business\u00a0<\/em>from Rosenfeld Media? Well, there’s some incredibly exciting\u00a0stuff happening at the intersection of business and design, and we’ll have some\u00a0interesting news on this to report on later this fall. Please stay tuned.<\/p>\n In honor of these new books, here’s a discount code that will get you 25% off<\/strong> any Rosenfeld Media book until Saturday, 9\/26: PRODIGAL<\/strong>.<\/p>\n More happy news: this is Steve’s second book with Rosenfeld Media. Chris’s too. And Nathan’s third. Indi Young<\/strong> and Whitney Quesenbery<\/strong> have also worked with us on more than one book. That means we’re doing something right. Normally\u00a0I’d give credit to taking a UX-infused approach to how we do business. But when it comes to writing books, I can’t overemphasize\u00a0the very old school approach of providing authors with great support from a human editor. As one of our authors put it just yesterday:<\/p>\n I’m not sure why so many other publishers are axing their developmental editors; I don’t see any other way to ensure an experience that’s good for an author and, ultimately, readers. So a huge tip of the hat to\u00a0Marta Justak,\u00a0<\/strong>who has edited most of our books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Happy news: we’ve recently signed authors to write these three exciting new books, all likely to be published in 2016: Epic Fail: Design Research War Stories by Steve Portigal The Dawn of Agentive Technology: From Good Tools to Good Rules by Chris Noessel Blindspot: Illuminating the Hidden Value of Business by Steven Diller, Nathan Shedroff, … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186460,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184192\/revisions\/186460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Kevin](\"http:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-17-at-10.16.57-AM.png\")
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