IA/UX Rochester

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1. 
   Nathan Henderson wrote on July 17, 2012 at 1:59 PM

   I'll be talking about design and user experience (e.g.: what is user experience? why does it matter?)

   If there's time, we can break into groups for a design exercise involving an app that the Rochester Ruby group is building.

2. 
   Nathan Henderson wrote on July 18, 2012 at 10:27 PM

   Thanks everyone for coming tonight!

   I posted by my slides on SpeakerDeck: https://www.speakerdeck.com/u/nathos/p/design-and-user-experience

   and here are links to various references and books mentioned during the presentation:

   • The Steve Jobs "Design is how it works" quote is from a NY Times article entitled "The Guts of a New Machine": http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/30/magazine/30IPOD.html?pagewanted=all

   • Dieter Rams's "Ten principles for good design": https://www.vitsoe.com/gb/about/good-design

   • Louie Mantia's (@mantia) comments on User Experience Design: http://storify.com/nathos/louie-mantia-on-user-experience

   Books: 

   • Universal Principles of Design: http://amzn.com/1592535879?tag=nathos-20

   • Emotional Design by Donald Norman: http://amzn.com/0465051367?tag=nathos-20

   • Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug: http://amzn.com/0321344758?tag=nathos-20

   • Designing for Emotion by Aarron Walter: http://www.abookapart.com/products/designing-for-emotion/

   • Rules for Revolutionaries by Guy Kawasaki: http://amzn.com/088730995X?tag=nathos-20

   • Selling the Dream by Guy Kawasaki: http://amzn.com/0887306004?tag=nathos-20

   Other books mentioned at the meeting:

   • Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman: http://amzn.com/0374275637?tag=nathos-20

   • How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker: http://amzn.com/0393334775?tag=nathos-20

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