UX Book Club, Washington DC

[Will Evans]

The UX Book Club Washington D.C. seeks to enhance the abilities and knowledge of user experience professionals from information architects and interaction designers to visual designers and usability specialists to augment their understanding for excellence in UX practice, ixd design theory while building a passionate local community.

Subjects of interest to this club span design theory, design research and user experience research practices and processes. The books include the strategy and business of design, UX design theory and history, methodology, usability research, and the ethics of UX professionals, while networking and having some fun.

In this first year, we will read, review, and discuss 8 books. Moderation and discussion lead will rotate throughout the group so that everyone eventually gets a chance to frame the conversation and contribute to group learning. I have taken the liberty of choosing the first two books to jump start the group, but afterwards books will be chosen by some democratic mechanism based on group interest. The first two books are Bill Buxton's “Sketching User Experiences,” and Dan Saffer's “Designing for Interaction.”

Go here and sign up if interested
http://uxbookclub.org/doku.php?id=washington_dc

[JESS3]

Great idea Will!!

"Subject to Change" by Adaptive Path would be good for the list.

[Will Evans]

JESS3,

Feel free to add the book to the list on the wiki.

[Reggie Murphy]

Great, when's the first meeting of the book club?