Canberra UX Book Club

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6:30pm Books: Bring your own!

Location: 'Front Cafe' next to “Tilley's” in Lyneham.

Tilleys: 1/94 Wattle St Lyneham ACT 2602 (02) 6247 7753

6:30pm Books: “Forms That Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability” by Caroline Jarrett and Gerry Gaffney

Location: Ostani Bar, Hotel Realm, 18 National Circuit, Barton, ACT - see the Google map (Out the back of the hotel)

Time: 6:30pm

Location: Ostani Bar, Hotel Realm, 18 National Circuit, Barton, ACT - see the Google map (Out the back of the hotel)

Main review subject will be Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics nominated by Nathanael Boehm with Donna Spencer to also provide a review on several New Riders books.

Date: TBD

Time: 6pm

Location: Ostani Bar, Hotel Realm, 18 National Circuit, Barton, ACT - see the Google map (Out the back of the hotel)

Books: Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design

Donna's review of Todd Warfel's Prototyping: A Practitioner's Guide

Our December meeting will be replaced by a late November casual meeting with IA Canberra folks.

Date: Thursday 26 Nov

Location: Trinity Bar, Dickson, followed by dinner somewhere in Dickson

Time: 6pm

The book: None

Contact Donna for more details (or to check where we are): 0409778693 or donna@maadmob.net

(Please note earlier starting time)

Monday 16th November 6:30PM-8:00PM, Ostani Bar, Hotel Realm, 18 National Circuit, Barton, ACT - see the Google map

The book: Predictably Irrational, by Dan Ariely.

(Please note earlier starting time)

Thursday 15th 5:15PM-6:45PM, Hotel Kurrajong, National Circuit, Barton, ACT - see the Google Map

The Book: 'The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web - Jesse James Garrett(discussion) and Tom Peters' Re-imagine (review by Ryan Merton)

Monday 7th September. 6:00PM-7:30PM, Hotel Kurrajong, National Circuit, Barton, ACT - see the Google Map

The Book: 101 Things I learnt in Architecture School by Matthew Frederick

Earlier planned meeting was postponed due to small expected attendance. Meeting was small but nice.

6:00PM-7:30PM, Hotel Kurrajong, National Circuit, Barton, ACT - see the Google Map

The Books: David Weinburger's Small Pieces Loosely Joined (discussion) and Simon Baron Cohen's The Essential Difference (review by Keith Lang)

The books: Alex Wright's Glut: Mastering Information Through The Ages (discussion) and Lawrence Grobel's The Art of the Interview: Lessons from a Master of the Craft (review by Nathanael Boehm)

Monday 1 June

The books: Don Norman's The Design of Future Things (discussion) and 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (review by Ryan Merton and Jessica Enders)

Please RSVP to Andrew (facibus@gmail.com) ASAP to ensure that we have enough seats for everyone :)

Monday 11 May 2009

The books: Indi Young's Mental Models (discussion) and How to win friends and influence people (review by Ryan Merton)

Monday 6 April

The Books: Lidwell, Holden & Butler's Universal Principles of Design (discussion) and Wendy Chisholm and Matt May's Universal Design for Web Applications: Web Applications That Reach Everyone (review by Ruth Ellison)

The Books: Dan Brown's Communicating Design (discussion) and Alan Andreasen's “Marketing Social Change” (review by Jessica Enders)

As discussed at this meeting, a good way to find cheap books to/in Australia is to search www.booko.com.au.

the first meeting of the Canberra UX Book Club was held on Monday 2 February 2009 from 5.30PM to 7.00PM at Trinity Bar, 28 Challis Street, Dickson, ACT

The book for group discussion this month was Steve Krug's Don't Make Me Think.

We also had a 10 minute “noone else might have seen this one yet” review by Donna Spencer of John Medina's Brain Rules (see the video at http://www.brainrules.net/ for an overview).

Lots of suggestions came up and we're going to add them here.

Cheers, Andrew (unorganiser pro tem)

Because someone asked; Books that Keith Lang recommends: How the Mind Works, Steven Pinker. The Essential Difference, Simon Baron Cohen. Yes Psychology of Persuasion Robert Cialdini, Glut: Mastering Information Through The Ages.

Add your name and email address here in AT DOT format (for example, Andrew Boyd is on facibus AT gmail DOT com) - and the unorganisers will get back to you.

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