Sorry, forgot to announce the January meeting we held last night where we reviewed Robert Hoekman, Jr’s Designing the Obvious and Todd Zaki Warfel’s new book Prototyping.
The next bookclub meeting is on 11 February 2010 where we’ll be discussing Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics and some new New Riders books.
The next UX bookclub meeting in Canberra is tomorrow night at 6:30pm.
The venue is the bar attached to Hotel Realm in Barton; just look for the group of people with a copy of the same book in front of them. Go around the left side of the hotel from outside the main entrance.
The book being reviewed tomorrow is Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely but if you haven’t read it don’t worry. Not everyone has the opportunity to read every book the club reviews so just turn up and join in the discussion which inevitable wanders off into other topics.
Also, Donna Spencer will be giving a personal review of Scott Berkun’s new book Making Things Happen.
If you want to come please let Keith Lang know and subscribe to the uxbookclubcanberra list for future events.
Unfortunately I will be missing out again on bookclub as I’ll be in Sydney for Global Entrepreneurs Week.
| October 6, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Book to be discussed:
The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda
When:
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 7:00pm
Where:
Art Center College of Design in Pasadena
Faculty Dining Room on the Hillside Campus
Click here for directions
Parking is free and light refreshments will be served.
RSVP:
Respond to the book club thread on LinkedIn.
(It says October 7 on the thread but the time has been changed to 10/6)
| August 27, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
First meeting.
Where:
Joseph-Beth Booksellers
Legacy Village
24519 Cedar Road
Lyndhurst, OH 44124
Book: We’ll be discussing The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown.
| July 30, 2009 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
The UX Book Club of New York City will be discussing
For more information and to RSVP see http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=52191216814
| May 20, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Did you know that the last two meetings were wildly popular and successful? UX professionals all over the world are flocking to UX Book Club, and one of our members told me this was one of the most valuable UX events he’d ever attended in LA! Just consider the opportunity for knowledge and insight you’ll lose if you don’t join us. Want to come but worried you won’t finish the book? Email Sarah at (nightlight [at] gmail.com) and we’ll make a bet on it.
Seriously, the book is a really interesting page-turner, and this meeting is going to be lots of fun. You won’t want to miss it. (Plus, HUGE is hiring – might be a good opportunity for you job seekers to scout out their digs.)
The Book:
Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wellness, and Happiness.
Info about the book at Amazon.
Event Date and Time:
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
7:00 pm
Event Location:
HUGE
11135 Weddinton St.
North Hollywood, CA
RSVP:
Post to the Los Angeles UX Book Club Group on LinkedIn
| May 7, 2009 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior By: Indi Young
Schedule:
6:30-7:00 Drinks and mingling
7:00-7:30 Group intros and discussion
7:30-9:00 Smaller group discussions (longer if it feels right)
:00-9:30 Farewells and, for those interested, cleaning up and more drinking
(A small donation of $10 is requested to cover food and beverage costs. Thanks in advance for your participation. Next time around we will have a digital means of making this contribution. For now, it’s at the door.)
NYC UX Book Club invites currently go through facebook.
If anyone wants to be a part of the communication loop, please join the UX Book Club NYC group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=52191216814
RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=52191216814#/event.php?eid=80668478704
About the Book: There is no single methodology for creating the perfect product—but you can increase your odds. One of the best ways is to understand users’ reasons for doing things. Mental Models gives you the tools to help you grasp, and design for, those reasons. Adaptive Path co-founder Indi Young has written a roll-up-your-sleeves book for designers, managers, and anyone else interested in making design strategic, and successful. ”Indi Young’s mental models are the perfect way for your team to integrate your user’s perspective into your design. Indi has written a comprehensive guide for anyone who wants to make use of this power design technique. I’ll be giving this book out to all of our important clients and insisting they make it part of their process.” —Jared Spool, CEO & Founding Principal, User Interface Engineering
| January 13, 2009 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
Join us for conversation and libation with the Toronto area’s (more or less) monthly UX Irregulars get-together.
In order to get the Toronto UX Book Club rolling, we’re inviting everyone who might be interested to:
- share books you might be interested in
- brainstorm how the book club could work
We invite you to add your book suggestions and thoughts on this page: http://uxbookclub.org/doku.php?id=toronto
For more on the UX book club, see:
http://uxbookclub.org/doku.php and http://uxbookclub.org/doku.php?id=other_ideas_for_running_your_ux_book_club.
Please RSVP so we can get an idea of how many will be coming.
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1475113/
C’est What
67 Front St. E.
Toronto, Ontario
Google Maps
http://rurl.org/hc7
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=67+Front+St.+E.,+Toronto,+Ontario
UX Irregulars are a rag-tag, fugitive fleet of User eXperience designers, researchers and strategists who design mostly Web interactions, but also software, and sometimes crazy things like ski hills
http://groups.google.com/group/UXIrregulars
| February 11, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
The first MinneUX Book Club discussion will be Wednesday, Feb. 11 between 6-8pm at Wilde Roast in NE Minneapolis, discussing Bill Buxton’s “Sketching User Experiences.”
See UX Book Club for more information.
| January 8, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm |
The inaugural Chicago UX Book Club meeting will be Thursday, January 8, 2009, 7:00 p.m., Fado, 100 W Grand Avenue.
The book: The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman.
See Gabby Hon’s page for more information.
