Welcome to the UXBookClub Washington, D.C. Page.

Welcome to the UXBookClub Washington, D.C. Page.

The UX Book Club for DC is back!

Moderators: Elizabeth Buie and Lance Cookson

Twitter Account: @uxbcdc Hashtag: #uxbcdc

Date: Monday, June 21st Please RSVP

Time: 7:30pm

Location: 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 305, Silver Spring, MD Map

Book: Mental Models, by Indi Young

http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/mental-models/

Use coupon code UXBOOKDC2010 for 30% off all Rosenfeld Media products through July 1, 2010

Description: 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.

Mission

The UX Book Club Washington D.C. seeks to enhance the abilities and knowledge of user experience professionals from information architects and interaction designers to visual designers and usability specialists to augment their understanding for excellence in UX practice, ixd design theory while building a passionate local community.

Subjects of interest to this club span design theory, design research and user experience research practices and processes. The books include the strategy and business of design, UX design theory and history, methodology, usability research, and the ethics of UX professionals, while networking and having some fun.

Club meetings will occur every 6-8 weeks. Anyone can volunteer to moderate and lead a book discussion. We will likely experiment with different ways of choosing a book to read. Preferably a member will volunteer to lead a discussion on a book they enjoy or are interested in.

The Books:

We encourage people to recommend books. We ask that you:

Have read it
Feel it would generate good discussion
Be willing to lead the discussion or find someone to lead it

Books to Consider

Ambient Findability, by Peter Morville
Communicating Design, by Dan Brown (I'd like to lead this discussion if possible / tsakell)
The Design of Future Things: Author of The Design of Everyday Things, by Don Norman
The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life), by John Maeda
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students, by Ellen Lupton
Design Culture: An Anthology of Writing from the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design, by Steven Heller
Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design, by Jenifer Tidwell
Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World Peter Merholz
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design Alan Cooper
Making Meaning: How Successful Businesses Deliver Meaningful Customer Experiences Steve Diller
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die Chip Heath and Dan Heath
The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures Dan Roam
Designing and Engineering Time: The psychology of time perception in software by Steven Seow
The Paradox of Choice: Why more is less by Barry Schwartz
Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies by Charlene Li
Confessions of an Ad Man David Ogilvy
Lovemarks Kevin Roberts
Unstuck Keith Yamashita and Sandra Sparato
Everything Bad is Good for You Steven Johnson
Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions Bill Scott and Theresa Neil
Designing for the social web Joshua Porter
Designing Gestural Interfaces by Dan Saffer
Thoughtful Interaction Design, by Jonas Löwgren and Erik Stolterman

The People:

Here is where you add your name and contact information to be part of the group. Please format as Name | space | username/at/domain.foo to make it a bit harder for spammers to harvest your emails. If you are on twitter please enter your twitter handle after your e-mail address.

Lance Cookson lansing.cookson/at/gmail.com | @lukanx [Alexandria, VA]
Elizabeth Buie ebuie/at/luminanze.com | @ebuie (Silver Spring MD)
Paul Trumble paultrumble/at/gmail.com | @trumbling (Gaithersburg MD)
Dan Brown brownorama/at/gmail.com | @brownorama (Bethesda, MD)
John Douglass jhdouglass/at/gmail.com | @JDouglass (Washington, DC)
Amy Knox amy.knox/at/beaconfire.com | @amyk1203
Dave Burke dave/at/daveburke.com | @daveburke
Veronica Erb veronicaerb/at/gmail.com | @verbistheword (Washington, DC)
Sophie Burns sophieindc/at/gmail.com | @sophieci (Washington, DC)
Rasika Krishna rasikakrishna/at/gmail.com | @ras1ka (Washington, DC)
Joel Fisher joelfisher/at/gmail.com | @joelmoney (Baltimore, MD)
Laura Hjerpe lrhjerpe/at/gmail.com | (Arlington VA)
Stephen Chovanec sfchovanec/at/gmail.com | @six16 (Arlington VA)
Hallie Wilfert halliewilfert/at/gmail.com | @halliew (Alexandria, VA / Chevy Chase, MD (work))
John Whalen johnwhalen/at/yahoo.com | @johnwhalen (Bethesda, MD)
Thai Lam thailam/at/gmail.com | @thai_lam (Clarksburg, MD)
Jamie Bresner jbresner/at/nearestexit.com | @jbresner (Alexandria, VA)
Larry King larry.a.king/at/gmail.com | @laking (Falls Church, VA)
Joel Daly axelhonkrod/at/gmail.com | @axelhonkrod (Washington, DC)
Rob Fay robfay/at/gmail.com | @robfay (Bowie, MD)
Kerry Holeman kerry.holeman/at/gmail.com | (Arlington, VA)

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