We've updated our author event calendar; as always, the distance our authors go (and the variety of topics they cover) is impressive, to say the least.

And for those of you in and near London, two notes of interest:
1. UX London's early bird registration deadline is January 31; they've kindly offered friends of Rosenfeld Media a 10% discount.
2. Our own Lou Rosenfeld will teach his search analytics workshop on March 1, sponsored by the wonderful people at Etre. Early bird registration is also January 31.

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Many designers and developers are finding that their applications and sites are far more engaging when they incorporate game-like qualities. So we're thrilled that John Ferrara will be tackling this topic in his new book, Playful Design: Creating Game Experiences in Everyday Interfaces.

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Like everyone else, we're considering how we'd like the new year to be different than the last one. Following are the areas that we're tackling right now. (I won't call them "resolutions"—that just means plans, with little guaranty of actions.) We'd love your input: what's missing from this list? And are we doing enough in each area?

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Until the past week or so, we've shipped all of our books from a facility outside Detroit, Michigan in the US. While a quick perusal of our shipper ratings at Amazon.com suggests that this arrangement has worked well, many of you have asked us to find a way to lower the price and shorten the shipping time to European addresses.

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We've just updated our author events calendar, and as usual, Rosenfeld Media authors will be all over the place: Portugal (UX Lisbon), Germany (UPA 2010), the UK (the Etre Get Together), France (Webdesign International Festival), and many US venues, not to mention virtually as well (at the UIE Virtual Seminar series). We'll be in force at Interaction10 in Savannah, Georgia, with appearances by Keven Cheng, Luke Wroblewski, and Todd Zaki Warfel. We'll also be visiting the IA Summit, SXSW, Microsoft MIX 10, and many other events.

Check out the full calendar here.

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Our Korean partner, Insight Books, has translated Indi Young's Mental Models book. You can learn more and order the book at Insight's web site.

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It's here! Well, technically, your copy of Prototyping: A Practitioner's Guide is sitting in a crate in our fulfillment center in Ypsilanti, Michigan, awaiting swift shipping and tender handling on its way to your loving hands. Order your copy today to learn the ins and outs of this most practical design tool in a most practical fashion. Todd Zaki Warfel covers the gamut of prototyping approaches, from low-tech (paper prototyping) to high-tech (Axure and its ilk).

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The theme of this year's World Usability Day, which takes place on November 12, is "Designing for a Sustainable World". WUD is a truly global event, and sustainable design is certainly a global issue. It's also a personal issue for UX people; whether you're testing a web site or designing a new mobile device, your work will have an impact on people, the environment, and economic systems. What can you do to ensure your solutions leave the smallest possible footprint on our planet, promote social justice, and contribute to stable, sustainable economies?

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We've just updated our calendar; looks like Rosenfeld Media authors will be mostly in North America during the rest of 2009, with stops in Boston (Donna Spencer at UIE 14), Toronto and the Bay Area (Nathan Shedroff, who apparently lives on a plane), and Savannah (Kevin Cheng).

We also have some discounts to share: use code 'AEALOU' for $100 off An Event Apart in San Francisco (where Luke Wroblewski will present), and 20% at the UX Conference in Lugano (use code 'RMuxCH').

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...is now available! Donna Spencer's Card Sorting can now be read on your iPhone, Sony Reader, Android, or... who knows what else! These ebook sands seem to shift hourly! In any case, we optimized the design for Stanza, and checked on Bookworm and ADE, so it should work fine in most cases.

And best of all, you can't beat the price: US$5. So download a copy now, and please comment here on how this first effort might be improved.

(Kindle owners, why are we leaving you out? Well, our books have full color interiors and complex layouts; the Kindle isn't good at presenting that kind of content, at least not yet. But Amazon recently purchased the company that developed Stanza, the primary EPUB reader, so perhaps that'll change soon.)

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