In this round-up of book reviews we are moving from usability testing to business ideas and children. We reviewed Steve Krug’s ‘Rocket Surgery Made Easy’, a collection of essays called ‘Mobile Technology for Children’, 37Signals’ ‘Rework’ and Donna Spencer’s newest book ‘A Practical Guide to Information Architecture.’ … »
Day three was a binge of amazing keynote speakers. I definitely expect that everyone’s head was completely filled by the end of the day. Besides the amazing talent that was there, UXLX in its association with the brand new Want Magazine presented clips of the newest videos that were launched that very day with the online magazine itself.
Day 2 of UX Lisbon included presentations on seduction, creative uses of Twitter, and the secret sauce of design.
UXLX or User Experience Lisbon[i], was the brain child of organizer Bruno Figuierro. Bruno put on an amazing event. It was clear from the moment I stepped off the plane and was greeted by Bruno[ii] (and Donna Spencer) that Bruno was putting out all the stops. His team crafted an experience that was one of the best conferences I have been to.
In this round-up of book reviews we are trying to broaden your perspective a little bit. We review the typical UX books, like ‘Beyond the Usability Lab’ and ‘User Experience Re-Mastered’, but we also try to get inspiration from ‘Innovators’ and ‘Layout Essentials’. … »
As always a pumped, but a bit more tired from previous nights sponsored festivities, the audience kicked of the last day of the conference. After the opening keynote the winner of the student competition was announced and everybody got a chance to know a little more about the results from that. … »
After a night of some great parties, and even better conversation, the second day of Interaction 10 began with a preview of the new IxDA.org website redesign. The team doing the redesign covered all the great new features that are coming, and went into detail on how local groups will be able to leverage the new site for their own networks and events. The excitement from yesterday was easily carried over, and people were pumped to see what the presenters had in store for us today.
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There are so many interesting UX books coming out that it’s hard to know which ones are worth your money. So from now on we will try and be your guide. Each month we will share with you our opinion on the newest UX books. And as a bonus we will add a classic you must have.
This month we review Card Sorting, Designing Social Interfaces, Thoughts on Interaction Design, and revisit The Inmates Are Running The Asylum. … »
Canberra was again host to power hungry … laptops with day two of UXAustralia. The final day of the conference proved as thought provoking and varied as the first, with topics ranging from UX strategy (twice!) to multi-platform and multi-touch. … »
“We work in a young field and don’t have a sense of lineage … But we have one”. Keynote speaker Alex Wright kicked off the UX Australia conference with a mind-bending presentation tracing information architecture from ancient pre-written culture to the present day, via Bablylonian libraries and 19th century predictions of technology.
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