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Entries Tagged as 'Books'

Whit Hour – Week 4

August 26th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Whit Hour

Thank you so much to the 25 or so folks who showed up for the fourth week of Whit Hour — my weekly one-hour video chat to answer any and all of your questions about user experience, consulting, and whatever else you throw at me. Join me next week on Sunday, August 30, 9-10pm Eastern [...]

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My UX Bookshelf featured in Usability News

December 5th, 2008 · No Comments · User Experience

Thanks to Joanna Bawa, editor, for featuring my UX Bookshelf on Usability News. They linked to my list of The 10 Best Books on User Experience on Flashlight Worthy Books. Thanks to John Yamasaki for pointing it out. Related Posts: My UX Bookshelf on Flashlight Worthy Books UX Bookshelf My Top 10 User Experience Blogs [...]

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My UX Bookshelf on Flashlight Worthy Books

November 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment · User Experience

In July I posted the books on my UX bookshelf. Then a couple months ago I received an email from Peter Steinberg, a product development guy with a lot of cool experience who reads and enjoys this little blog. He recently launched a site called Flashlight Worthy — a hand-picked book recommendation site — and [...]

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UX Bookshelf

July 19th, 2008 · 11 Comments · Design, User Experience

In the right sidebar of my blog I promote my UX Bookshelf. I use Amazon Associates just to get the smallest kickback (I’ve never actually made any money with this, but I’d like to!). The other day I noticed that they have a new carousel widget (released in April) that allows you to display up [...]

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Update on Amazon’s TextBuyIt

April 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Pleasure

As you may have read on Wednesday, I bought a book through Amazon’s new service TextBuyIt. I was really impressed by the user flow and was able to buy the book I was looking for in about two minutes. Even more incredible is that the book showed up at my house yesterday morning, just two [...]

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