We had a small but engaged book club tonight at Wilde Roast in Minneapolis. The book on the schedule was Designing the Obvious by Robert J. Hoekman, Jr. (@rhjr on Twitter) He has offered to have a call with the Minneapolis UX book club if we want to set one up, chime in on comments [...]
Hello MinneUX’ers –
Please join us for our first MinneUX Book Club discussion. We’ll be meeting Wednesday, Feb. 11 between 6-8pm at Wilde Roast in NE Minneapolis, discussing Bill Buxton’s “Sketching User Experiences”, which I thought would be a good kickoff since it was the most popular choice for those who took the recent survey.
When reading [...]
When you think of user interfaces you generally think of screens, buttons, knobs and maybe some documentation on how to use these objects. But lets get away from that for a moment, if you don’t mind.
One of the oldest and most relevant user interfaces is the book. Books generally include page numbers, blocks of text [...]
Well, it serves me right for being completely off the AIGA radar these days, but esteemed design book author and critic Steven Heller is going to be here on November 1 for a lecture hosted by the College of Visual Arts at the History Center in St. Paul. Alas, it’s sold out. But there WILL [...]
Time for a Friday break from pixels. Let’s talk books.
The family headed out to their favorite place the other night…B&N. I usually hang out in the kids section where the Thomas the Train set is while the missus does her thing.
Which is just fine, as any graphic designer knows that the ‘cool’ books are all [...]
Yesterday, I received a package from some good friends on the other side of the pond. In it, a torn out magazine page promoting DDR Design, 1949 – 1989, a Taschen featuring the “best” of communist, East German product design.
If you’ve spent any time near the DDR, or seen Good Bye, Lenin, you’ll know the [...]
I’ve been reading this great blog lately called Looks Good Works Well, written by Bill Scott. You should definitely check it out. This is my second post here in response to something on this blog.
In his most recent post, Scott talks about his experience with a workshop at the eTech conference called “Creating Passionate Users,” [...]
Esther Derby is talking about BookCharting (diagramming the structure of a book prior to reading it) sounds interesting. If you want to try it out, you’re in luck, her friend Cheryl Kartes is holding a BookCharting Salon at:
Spirit United Interfaith Church, 3204 Como Ave. S.E.
on September 26th from 6-9pm.
More info here: BDFlyer.pdf
The book to be [...]
Steven Johnson attempts to debunk some strong popular opinions in his new book, Everything Bad Is Good For You: How Today’s Pop Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter. He deconstructs the popular thought processes of today that say that all this video game playin’, music listening, reality tv watching culture is a race to the [...]
Don’t miss the U.S. Bank Speaker Series featuring bestselling business writer and entrepreneur Seth Godin!
Meet Seth Godin, get a FREE copy of bestseller Purple Cow, and stay for the Timberwolves game!
Date: Wednesday, April 13th
Speaker: Seth Godin, author of bestseller Purple Cow
Topic: Marketing in a Crowded Marketplace
Game: Timberwolves vs. Warriors
Offer: $40 and $24 packages include speaking [...]