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Our Latest Newsletter: May 14, 2008

Welcome to Our New Newsletter

Howdy. Welcome to our new newsletter. As you can see, the blur of activity continues here at Adaptive Path. First and foremost, our new book, Subject to Change, has made its way to the shelves and is already beginning to get people talking seriously about user experience. It’s my first book and I couldn’t be more pleased with how it is turning out. In other news, Paula Wellings and I are settling into the new digs in Austin — making friends, learning our way around the local UX community, and running some exciting projects. Y’all will hear more Austin news in future newsletters. For now, you can learn more about what everybody’s up to through our blog digest and Adaptive Path News below. — Todd Wilkens

Get 40% Off of Our New Book: Subject To Change

Get 40% off of our new book, Subject to Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World, through O’Reilly. Use discount code “S2CC4.” Hurry, the offer expires December 31, 2008. Not sure if Subject to Change is the right book for you? Listen to all four authors as they discuss the book in an O’Reilly podcast.

Catch Peter’s Live Webcast on Subject to Change

Peter Merholz will be hosting a free live webcast on our new book, Subject to Change, this Thursday, at 10 AM PDT via O’Reilly. Peter will share a handful of breakthrough ideas for succeeding in a future that you can’t predict. Register now — space is limited.

AP Blogs & Signposts

Here’s our roll call of our latest (and greatest) blog posts. Check them out.

A list of latest favorite blog posts:

We’re Hosting Erika Hall & Kristina Halvorson on May 20

We’re hosting Erika Hall and Kristina Halvorson — the Queens of Content — on May 20, 2008 at 6 PM at our San Francisco office. Erika will share a presentation on “Copy as Interface” and Kristina will present on “Content Strategy: The Mania, the Myth, the Method.” RSVP at upcoming.org.

Peter Tells BusinessWeek Online It’s the Experience That Counts

Peter Merholz tells BusinessWeek Online about how focusing on the consumers’ experience through rapid prototyping and other means can inform and shape design of new products and services in It’s the Experience That Counts: How to design a holistic consumer experience.

Join us at UX Intensive Minneapolis, June 16-19

Did you know that Cheerios and Spam were invented in Minnesota? Did you know that Minneapolis is halfway between Los Angeles and New York City and accessible from nearly any city in the US in 2.5 hours? Good thing there is room at next month’s UX Intensive Minneapolis! Early bird registration ends at the end of the month, so register now and save. Use discount code “NEWS” and get an additional 15% off.

UX Week Schedule Additions

We’ve got an amazing and wide-ranging lineup this year, with keynotes from Don Norman, Scott Griffith (CEO of Zipcar), Jane McGonigal (futurist and alternate reality game designer), and Bruce Sterling, and sessions featuring Johnny C. Lee (Wiimote hacker), Audrey Chen (information architect for TheDailyShow.com), Milkshake Media on their design work for Lance Armstrong’s LIVESTRONG foundation, Adaptive Path alums Jeffrey Veen and Mike Kuniavsky, and much much more. We’ve also got half-day workshops addressing essentials for user experience practitioners, including sketching, storytelling, user research analysis, designing for gestural interfaces, prototyping in Flash and with Thermo, and managing UX teams.

UX Week is the premier conference for user experience professionals. Don’t miss it! Register now and catch early bird registration. Use discount code “NEWS” for an additional 15% off of the registration price.

Register for Our Events and We’ll Donate $100 to LIVESTRONG

When you register for either UX Intensive Minneapolis or UX Week within the next seven days, Adaptive Path will donate $100 from each registration to LIVESTRONG.