A book in progress by Victor Lombardi. Publisher: Rosenfeld Media. Anticipated publication date: 2012
Just as pilots and doctors improve by studying morbid-but-fascinating crash reports and postmortems, user experience designers can improve by learning how products failed in the marketplace when the determining factor was experience design. As opposed to books that proselytize a particular approach to design, the case studies in Why We Fail will illustrate what teams actually built, how the products failed, and how we can learn from that experience.
Why We Fail will help you:
Journalism can feel like hunting for treasure. Some days you do your research and find a few trinkets and you're satisfied, and sometimes you find big booty. Yesterday was one of those big booty days, when I pump my fist and realize the story is even better than I had planned.
I started a rule yesterday of No TV. While I need some chill time, it's dangerous to take a guy like me that usually doesn't have a signal and grazes on Netflix at home and lock him in a house with 200 channels and a nice LCD. Too many good movies, too many fun shows about hot cars. So No TV. That enabled the aforementioned booty finding and most of a new chapter.
