Welcome to the UXBookClub Washington, D.C. Page.
Will Evans, moderator
All Future UXBookClubDC Events are now posted and maintained at http://ixdadc.ning.com/
We have a date and location for UXBookClub DC!
Many thanks go out to NAVTEQ for offering space up for this second meeting.
RSVP: http://ixdadc.ning.com/events/ux-book-club-washington-dc-1
Date: July 15th, 2009 Time: 6:00-7:30pm
Location: NAVTEQ 1875 K St NW Suite 400 Washington, DC 20006
NAVTEQ is located on the 4th floor of 1875 K St NW and there is a guard at the lobby. Please mention to the guard they are visiting Alejp Jumat at NAVTEQ for the book club. Alejo will tell the guard in advance to expect a bunch of people and to just let them up.
Book: Design Is The Problem, by Nathan Shedroff
http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/sustainable-design/
Discount Code: UXBOOKDC is now good for 30% off until 7/8
Design makes a tremendous impact on the produced world in terms of usability, resources, understanding, and priorities. What we produce, how we serve customers and other stakeholders, and even how we understand how the world works is all affected by the design of models and solutions. Designers have an unprecedented opportunity to use their skills to make meaningful, sustainable change in the world—if they know how to focus their skills, time, and agendas. In Design is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable, Nathan Shedroff examines how the endemic culture of design often creates unsustainable solutions, and shows how designers can bake sustainability into their design processes in order to produce more sustainable solutions.
Design is the Problem explains:
1. How sustainability isn't as difficult to understand and address as many would have you think 2. Several of the leading frameworks and perspectives on sustainability 3. How to insert sustainability into the development process that you're already using 4. The many, practical strategies that make the products, services, and events you design and develop more sustainable—right now
- Will
NOTE FROM WILL: I just got this ball rolling, but I invite all of you to edit this wiki and contribute time/energy/beer to this thing. Add books your interested in, volunteer to moderate, etc.
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.
In this first year, we will read, review, and discuss 8 books. Moderation and discussion lead will rotate throughout the group so that everyone eventually gets a chance to frame the conversation and contribute to group learning. I have taken the liberty of choosing the first two books to jump start the group, but afterwards books will be chosen by some democratic mechanism based on group interest.
The Books:
Vote on what books you want to discuss in the book club! Please respond by July 4th so everyone can start reading.
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
- The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
- Designing and Engineering Time: The psychology of time perception in software by Steven Seow
- Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies by Charlene Li
- Confessions of an Ad Man David Ogilvy
- Lovemarks Kevin Roberts
- 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
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. - Will
- Will Evans
- Lara Grenn laragrenn/at/yahoo.com [Arlington]
- Jesse Thomas jessethomas/at/jess3.com
- Shep McKee shep.mckee/at/gmail.com [Tysons Corner]
- James Melzer jamesmelzer/at/gmail.com [Bethesda]
- Chiwah Liu chiwah.liu/at/gmail.com
- Sonia Dwyer sonzieh/at/gmail.com
- Troy Winfrey twinfrey/at/gmail.com
- John Douglass jhdouglass/at/gmail.com
- tom sakell tsakell/at/gmail.com [North Arlington, VA]
- Heather White heather.white/at/yahoo.com [Tysons Corner]
- Carolyn Sheffield csheffield11/at/gmail.com
- Laura Schertler llschertler/at/gmail.com
- Wendy Stengel wendy.stengel/at/gmail.com
- Paul Trumble paultrumble/at/gmail.com [Gaithersburg, Montgomery, MD]
- Brian Verhoeven brian.verhoeven/at/gmail.com [Alexandria, VA]
- Aaron Watkins watkins.aaron/at/gmail.com [Baltimore, MD]
- Melanie Huston melanie/at/eightmuses.com [Georgetown, DC]
- Mark Schraad mschraad/at/gmail.com
- Lisa Battle lisa_battle/at/yahoo.com
- Michael Andrews userinnovation1/at/yahoo.com
- Dave Burke dave/at/daveburke.com
- Larry King larry.a.king/at/gmail.com [Falls Church, VA]
- Lance Cookson lansing.cookson/at/gmail.com [Alexandria, VA]
- Benno Schmidt abschmidt/at/gmail.com
- Sophie Campagne Sophie.Campagne/at/gmail.com
- Andrew Turner andrew/at/highearthorbit.com [Courthouse, Arlington, VA]
- Josh Palay jjpalay/at/gmail.com
- Marcy Jacobs marcy_jacobs/at/sra.com
- Jake Trimble jake.trimble/at/gmail.com [Clarendon, Arlington, VA]
- Stacy Surla stacy/at/greenfx.net
- Jacki Bauer jacki.m.bauer/at/gmail.com
- Jenny Wallace ponderopus/at/gmail.com
- Stephanie Wasilik swasilik/at/gmail.com
- Thom Haller thom/at/thomhaller.com
- Dustin Chambers dustin.chambers/at/gmail.com
- Betsy Bland betsybbland/at/gmail.com
- Dilini Abeywarna dilini.abeywarna/at/gmail.com
- Jeanne Chou jchou4/at/csc.com
[Vienna, VA or Tysons Corner, VA] - Hallie Wilfert halliewilfert/at/gmail.com
[Arlington or Alexandria] - Pawel Tulin pawel.tulin/at/edelman.com
- Alex Fisken fisken/at/gmail.com
- Christian Ellis c.miles.ellis/at/gmail.com
- Lorelei Brown loreleibrown /at/ yahoo.com
[All Arlington VA] - Carrie Garzich cgarzich/at/gmail.com [Silver Spring, MD]
- Cindy Blue cindy.blue/at/gmail.com
- Thanny Young thanny/at/mangofive.com
- Rob Fay rob/at/robfay.com
- Kim Bieler kimbieler/at/gmail.com [Silver Spring, MD]
- Kristi Cruzat kcruzat/at/gmail.com
- Jenn Sturm jennsturm/at/gmail.com [Mount Pleasant, DC]
- Vera Rhoads vtrhoads/at/yahoo.com
- Laurie Brykman virgule1/at/msn.com
- Salman Sajid creative/at/sajid.com [Herndon, VA]
- Neal B. Johnson njohn/at/his.com [DC and close-in suburbs]
- Steve Arrington stevenarrington/at/yahoo.com [Ballston, Arlington, VA]
- Vishal Shah shah.vish/at/gmail.com [Fairfax, VA]
- Javier Rios javie/at/javierios.com
- Victoria Pickering vlpickering/at/gmail.com [DC, Bethesda]
- Peter Corbett peter/at/istrategylabs.com
- Jennifer Wilkerson jennifer.wilkerson/at/gmail.com [Vienna, VA]
- Matthew Marco matthew.marco/at/gmail.com [Capitol Hill, Washington, DC]
- Alex Ku kualex/at/gmail.com [DC]
- Mary Specht mary.specht/at/gmail.com [DC]
- William Murray murrayw/at/georgetown.edu [West End, DC]
- Callie Neylan cneylan/at/npr.org [DC, Baltimore]
- Liz Odar liz.odar/at/gmail.com
- Chris Avore avore/at/erova.com [Bethesda, DC]
- Kyle Rush kylerrush/at/gmail.com [Downtown, DC]
- Janice James janicejames29/at/gmail.com\\[Leesburg, VA]
- Tony Lenzi tony.lenzi/at/gmail.com\\[Arlington, VA]
- Tabetha designer/at/tabetha.us\\[Arlington, VA]
- John Whalen johnwhalen/at/yahoo.com [Bethesda, DC]
- Lauren Haman lauren.haman/at/mail.house.gov [Arlington, VA]
- Edwin Bachetti edwin.bachetti/at/gmail [Tysons Corner, Arlington]
- Alejo Jumat ajumat/at/gmail.com [DC]
- Roger Skalbeck rvs5/at/law.georgetown.edu [DC]
- Beth Swanson beth_j_swanson/at/yahoo.com [DC]
- Curt Odar curtodar/at/yahoo.com [Arlington, VA]
- Jehan Moghazy jehan.moghazy/at/gmail.com [DC, Courthouse, Arlington]
- Thomas Lahr tjlahr/at/gmail.com [Courthouse, Arlington]
- Elle Cayabyab Gitlin elle.gitlin/at/gmail.com [Bloomingdale, DC]
- Malia Nagle malianagle/at/gmail.com [Baltimore, MD]
- Rachel Yang reoyang/at/gmail.com [Laurel, MD]
- Lil Tydings liltydings/at/me.com [Silver Spring, MD]
- Amy Egner amyegner/at/edf.org [Washington, DC]
Moderator Contact Information
Will Evans | User Experience Architect tel: +1.617.281.1281 | will@semanticfoundry.com aim: semanticwill gtalk: semanticwill twitter: semanticwill skype: semanticwill
