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IA/UX Rochester
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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.
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