Selling Usability: User Experience Infiltration Tactics, a new book, just came across the IAI list and looks to be interesting. Let us know if you’ve read it and/or think it would be a good book club candidate.
In light of our last meeting about selling user experience…
March 30, 2009
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Reminder RUX Book Club Next Month!
March 26, 2009Join us for our first RUX book club next month!
For April’s discussion, we’ll talk about the book Subject to Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World from Adaptive Path.
Format: (from UXBookClub.org)
A UX (User Experience) Book Club is a get-together in which people interested in the area of user experience come to discuss a book relevant to the discipline.
A UX Book Club would operate as follows:
- Everyone who attends should try and read the nominated book (you won’t be barred from entry, but it helps everyone get more out of the night);
- Everyone needs to jot down and bring along: 2 things in the book that really struck a chord; and 1 thing they either hated, disagreed with; or don’t understand.
- The book would be within the practice of user experience, which might include books like Indi Young’s Mental Models; Dan Saffer’s Design Gestural Interfaces; Todd Zaki Warfel’s forthcoming Prototyping; and classics such as The Design of Everyday Things; Don’t Make Me Think; The Inmates Are Running the Asylum; etc.
- The book should not be arduous to read!
- We’ll vote on next month’s book at the current meeting.
In keeping with the book-club theme we will meet somewhere like a wine bar or a bookstore. The important thing is that the noise level has to be low, and be able to accommodate a group of 15-30 people.
We’ll keep the book club updated via the UX Book Club site: http://www.uxbookclub.org/doku.php?id=richmond_va
When:
Wednesday April, 29, 2009, First Book Club Discussion Group
6pm – 8pm
Location: TBD
Book: Subject to Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World from Adaptive Path (http://tinyurl.com/cgzffc)
Looking forward to seeing you!
The RUX Planning Team
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Save the Date: IxDA09/IAS09 Redux in DC
March 25, 2009So you don’t feel bad about missing this year’s Interaction Design Association’s (IxDA) or the Information Architecture Summit, DCIA and DC IxDA are planning an IAS09/IxD09 Redux.
Many of the East Coast people who presented at either or both of these conferences are coming to DC for a half-day event. Saturday afternoon from about 1230/1pm-5pm with socializing and dinner to follow. Each person would have approximately 20-25 minutes to talk, there would be questions, as well as a semi-structured social time halfway through the program, much like the facilitated lunch discussions at the conference.
Tentative date is Saturday, May 2, 2009 12 – 5pm (with socializing, drinks and dinner afterwards). Watch this space for more info!
Best,
The RUX Planning Team
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March RUX meeting details
March 17, 2009Reminder RUX March Meeting!
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What: Group Discussion Series: Selling the Importance of Usability & IA to Clients
Please join us for a panel discussion March 25, 2009 to discuss Selling the Importance of Usability & IA to Clients. Feel free to bring your ideas and advice about how you sell usability & IA to your organizations. Panel to include:
Chris Eklund, Solutions Analyst at Affinion Loyalty Solutions
Dan Chamberlain, Internet Strategist at Dominion Resources
Chip Trout, Director of Web Experience at Snagajob
When: Wednesday March 25, 2009, 6pm – 8pm
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Where: Affinion Loyalty Solutions
7814 Carousel Ln
Richmond, VA 23294
One block east of the Parham and Broad intersection. Attendees should enter on the rear side of the building (the side closest to Parham Rd) and enter under the green awning. The meeting room is just to the left of the entrance and if the door is locked, they will need to go to the window and get someone’s attention.
Admission is free.
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Looking forward to seeing you there!
Best, The RUX Planning Team
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Usability Sciences Webinette
March 16, 2009A 20 minute webinette today, March 16, 2009.
Topic: Ten Strategies Retailers Can Implement to Improve Web site Usability.
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Swimlanes
March 4, 2009At the last meeting, I mentioned swimlanes as done by nForm. Here’s a link to a good version. Nice!
/joe
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Reminder – Upcoming RUX Events
March 3, 2009We had a great turnout last week and an awesome presentation! Thanks again to Affinion for hosting, to Candace for presenting and to all RUX members for sharing ideas and feedback!
We have an exciting few months ahead of us so mark your calendars for these events. As always, if you have an idea for an event, for the new book club or wish to present, please don’t hesitate to email the list or contact one of the steering committee members.
Wednesday March 25, 2009, Selling the Importance of Usability & IA to Clients
6pm – 8pm
RSVP: seteague AT vcu DOT edu or cnicolls AT ironworks DOT com by Monday, March 23.
Location: TBD
Wednesday April, 29, 2009, First Book Club Discussion Group
6pm – 8pm
Location: TBD
Book Club Discussion (see below)
Book: Subject to Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World from Adaptive Path (http://tinyurl.com/cgzffc)
Best,
The RUX Planning Team
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