- Adaptive Path’s New Fall 2005 Event Line-Up
- New Reading List Additions
- A Big, AP Welcome to Carrie Devine
- Adaptive Path at South by Southwest
Adaptive Path’s New Fall 2005 Event Line-Up
User Experience Week 2005 was a huge success and we greatly enjoyed meeting, discussing, and learning right alongside our attendees.
We’ll be taking some of those ideas, concepts, and sessions on the road this Fall. Here’s where you can join us:
- Join Peter Merholz and Jeff Veen on October 31 and November 1 in New York for our updated, two-day workshop, “Beyond Usability: Designing the Complete User Experience.” Peter and Jeff will teach you how to incorporate user goals, business needs, and organizational awareness into your design process. You’ll develop a project plan, learn methods for research and design, and get advice on creating clear documentation.
- Join Jesse James Garrett in Amsterdam on November 7, where he’ll be teaching his popular workshop, “The Elements of User Experience.” Using his renowned “Elements of User Experience” and “Nine Pillars of Successful Web Teams” models, attendees will learn how to make websites and products that will meet their users’ and organization’s needs through user-centered design principles./li>
- And don’t miss Jesse James Garrett in Chicago on December 8 for his first daylong workshop on Ajax. Back in February, Jesse coined the term Ajax to describe a new technology that’s changing the Web. He expanded on his ideas at User Experience Week in several exciting sessions, but this is the first time he’s taken those ideas and rolled them into a daylong workshop full of useful information about the present and future of the Internet.
For more information, see our Workshops page.
New Reading List Additions
Once in a while, we read books that change the way we think about our work. Sometimes we even write books that we hope will help you with your job. These are the latest additions to our shelves:
Information Design edited by Robert Jacobson
This is a multi-author collection of essays on the various aspects of information design. It includes the theoretical foundations, information design in practice, and a look at related technologies.
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Second Edition by Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville
One of the seminal books on information architecture, and often simply called “The Polar Bear Book” (due to the image on the cover). It outlines the basic principles of IA — such as organization and navigation — as well as methodologies, documentation and deliverables, strategy and case studies.
Information Architecture for Designers: Structuring Websites for Business Success by Peter Van Dijck
A graphics-heavy look at the field of information architecture, with lots of real-life examples. Includes sections on website strategy, audience research, information architecture, designing functionality, and interface design.
The Elements of User Experience by Jesse James Garrett
Jesse James Garrett, a founding partner of Adaptive Path, cuts through the complexity of user-centered Web design. His clear explanations and vivid illustrations focus on ideas, rather than tools or techniques. He gives readers the big picture of Web user experience development, from strategy and requirements to information architecture and visual design. This accessible introduction helps any Web development team, large or small, to create a successful user experience.
Thesaurus Construction and Use: A Practical Manual, Fourth Edition by Jean Aitchison, Alan Gilchrist, and David Bawden
A practical, concise guide to the construction of thesauri for use in information retrieval. The authors, who are leading experts in the field, include topics like planning and design; vocabulary control; specificity and compound terms; structure and relationships; auxiliary retrieval devices; multilingual thesauri; AAT Compound Term Rules; the US ANSI/NISO Z39.19 Thesaurus construction standard and many more.
Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner’s Guide to User Research by Mike Kuniavsky
Mike Kuniavsky, a founding partner of Adaptive Path, fills his book with real-world experience and practical information. He presents a complete toolbox of techniques to help designers and developers bridge the gap between what your users need and what they want from your product. Includes in-depth descriptions of 13 user-experience research techniques that can be used on projects for the Web, software, or mobile devices.
Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug
Usability expert Steve Krug distills his years of experience into practical, amusing advice for the people in the trenches (designers, programmers, writers, editors), the people who tell them what to do (project managers and marketing people), and even the people who sign the checks.
Any of these books is a great addition to your office library. If you’d like to see the rest of our picks, head over to the Adaptive Path reading list.
A Big, AP Welcome to Carrie Devine!
We’re so pleased to welcome Carrie Devine, our new Events Director, to the Adaptive Path team. She’ll be spearheading the planning and growth of Adaptive Path’s successful workshop series.
Carrie has been a freelance events consultant for a number of years. She worked with the Kerry-Edwards presidential campaign and the Salt Lake City Olympics, among others, before joining Adaptive Path in early August. She can be reached at carrie@adaptivepath.com. Welcome, Carrie!
Adaptive Path at South by Southwest
Scheduled March 10-14 in Austin, Texas, the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival provides real-life digital convergence for cutting-edge digital creatives, plus extensive programming on Web design, wireless innovation, blogging, tech entrepreneurism and other relevant new media topics. Past SXSW speakers have included industry trendsetters such as Lane Becker, Douglas Bowman, Ana Marie Cox, Caterina Fake, Jesse James Garrett, Molly Holzschlag, Peter Merholz, Jeff Veen, Jeffrey Zeldman, and Evan Williams. Stay tuned to http://www.sxsw.com/interactive/ for updated info on 2006 programming.
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