Date range: Nov 2008 thru Jan 2009
Total results: 7

Dec 1, 2008: Noodling (socially)...   4 comments
...with creating Rosenfeld Media groups for both Facebook and LinkedIn. Now don't get me wrong. Apples and oranges. I really love both services. And Christina, who's now at LinkedIn. They'd better be paying her really, really well. But it's definitely easier to get going virally in Facebook. About 70 fans in about four hours, and a few helpful comments. In fact, the process of figuring out how to get it set up was aided quite a bit by a few of my 200 plus Facebook friends. In LinkedIn, I have about 500 contacts. But, um, they're not friends. At least they don't feel that way. Sure, it's a business network, but I don't feel like there's anyone I can turn to for help. And it's far, far harder to invite those contacts to join. Both services have their respective benefits. Sometimes a tighter, more restrictive network has its purposes. And it's far…

Nov 20, 2008: Remote user research book   2 comments
I'm pretty jazzed that Rosenfeld Media has signed a new book: Remote Research by Nate Bolt and Tony Tulathimutte. I'm convinced that more and more user research will be done remotely in the coming years, and we really need a book—this book—to guide us. Here's the full announcement: We've been working on getting Nate Bolt and Tony Tulathimutte to write a book on remote user research for a couple years now. Through their work at Bolt | Peters, purveyors of Ethnio, a remote research service, they've become experts at leveraging new technologies to study users in their native habitats. Well, we've finally succeeded, and Remote Research is now officially a Rosenfeld Media book-in-progress site! We're quite excited by their proposal; you can get a taste of what they'll cover from its full description and tentative table of contents. Aside from visiting the site, you can also keep up with their progress by subscribing to their site's RSS feed. Or if…

Nov 17, 2008: More mental models   0 comments
Just published Victor Lombardi's interview with Indi Young on the cutting edge of mental models. Obviously we're doing this to crassly promote our upcoming webinar with Indi. But hey, we did include a 20% discount on the page. If you've already read Indi's book, you'll see from reading the interview that the webinar takes mental models beyond what she covered in the book. And if you haven't, well, the registration fee includes a copy of the book—and you should have more than enough time to read it before December 11.…

Nov 14, 2008: Resolution for 2009: UX Book Salon tour   3 comments
Even though the Christmas decorations are just starting to appear here in Brooklyn, it's not too soon to make a New Year's Resolution. When I started Rosenfeld Media, I set up a few brown bag lunches with groups of designers and researchers from a few local UX firms. I was looking to learn more about what our target audience liked and didn't like about the design of the books they used for their work. I asked them to bring their own books to the discussion. The resulting show and tell discussions were fantastically useful, and had a significant impact on the designs of both our digital and paperback editions. (Notes on these discussions here.) Just as important, these discussions provided an outlet for some intense, passionate discussions about UX books, their designs, and their topics. UX pros' pent-up feelings clearly needed to be expressed, and it was enlightening for everyone involved. Unfortunately, once Rosenfeld…

Nov 9, 2008: Luke on the future of web form design   1 comment
This past weekend I interviewed Luke Wroblewski about gradual engagement and other issues at the cutting edge of web form design. He'll be covering this topic in great detail during his webinar (coming up this Thursday, November 13). Check out the interview and snag a 20% discount off the registration fee.…

Nov 5, 2008: How I'm feeling this morning   5 comments
I still can't quite believe that the US has elected an African-American president. I was thinking about this while making breakfast this morning for Iris, who's not quite five. When I was her age, the US was only a few years removed from the thick of the civil rights movement. The kinks were still being worked out of African-American voter enfranchisement. King had been dead for about a year. Nixon was perfecting his Southern Strategy. And busing was about to become a hugely divisive issue, with five year olds as pawns. I broke down. Iris isn't used to seeing her dad this way. I explained to her as best I could that some really bad things, like slavery, had happened in this country. She had a hard time understanding why African-American kids weren't allowed to go to school, or why they had to work instead of play. I couldn't bear to tell her…

Nov 4, 2008: Voting at PS282, Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York, USA   9 comments
Can you tell who my presidential pick is (as if it wasn't already obvious)?…