Announcements Archive
Steve Portigal to write book on interviewing users
Interviewing users is fundamental to user experience work but, as Steve Portigal cautions, we tend to take it for granted. Because it's based on talking and listening, skills we think we have, we often wing it. Sadly, we miss out on many of the wonderful opportunities our interviews should reveal.
So we're thrilled that Steve, who's contributed regular columns to interactions and Core77, has signed on to write a new Rosenfeld Media book, The Art and Craft of User Research Interviewing, to help UX practitioners really succeed with interviewing. Steve's book will focus on helping practitioners to better understand users' perspectives, and to rely upon rapport as the main ingredient in successful user interviews.
Steve's book is going to be a fantastic contribution to the field, especially with your involvement. Please keep up with (and, when you can, contribute to) Steve's progress by following his work at the book site (here's its RSS feed). And of course, we'll be glad to let you know when the book comes out (and send you a nice discount) if you request to a publication notification.
Axure & Rosenfeld Media UX Giveaway
Axure and Rosenfeld Media have teamed up to give you a chance to win Axure RP licenses, the seven book Rosenfeld Media Library, and Q&A with prototyping experts Fred Beecher and Todd Zaki Warfel.
Entering to win is easy. Before Monday, January 31st at 5PM PST tweet your reply to "My prototyping motto is..." ending with @axurerp @rosenfeldmedia, so we can track it. Enter as many times as you'd like.
Here's an example: "Don't forget who the prototype is for! @axurerp @rosenfeldmedia"
Be a charter subscriber, win our books!
That newsletter we'd mentioned before? Well, it'll debut later this month! We've finally settled on a name—the Rosenfeld Review—and other than following our tens of thousands of weekly tweets, it'll be the best way to keep up with what we're up to. We're planning on publishing the Rosenfeld Review monthly, and we'll include some rich, useful content—more than the normal "look at us" newsletter fare.
We'd love for you to be a charter subscriber. If you sign up by Tuesday, January 25, we'll enter you to receive one of three great prizes:
- The Feels as Good as the Flying you do in your Dreams Prize: A complete set of our books, in both paperback and four digital formats.
- The Unicorns that Eat Out of your Hand Prize: A complete set of our books, but in digital formats only.
- The Dark Chocolate of the Gods Prize: Any Rosenfeld title of your choice, in both paperback and four digital formats.
Sign up below by Tuesday, January 25; thanks!
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Canadian orders now ship from... Canada!
If you live in Canada, you probably hate spending a boatload on shipping when buying from US-based retailers. If you're a US-based retailer, you hate it too (especially when the Canadian government randomly assigns huge duties to your shipments).
Well, we at Rosenfeld Media want all this hating to stop. So as of today, we're shipping our books out of Shipwire's Toronto-area fulfillment center. If you're based in Canada, you should now experience shipping rates and times that we believe will be more in line with what you expect and deserve. Please let us know if you encounter any glitches or have any questions at all.
