Hi, welcome to the Salt Lake City UX Book Club!

A UX (User Experience) Book Club is a get-together in which people interested in the area of user experience come to discuss a book relevant to the discipline.

This Book Club will operate as follows:

• Everyone who attends should try and read the nominated book (you won't be barred from entry, but it helps everyone get more out of the night);
• Everyone needs to jot down and bring along: 2 things in the book that really struck a chord; and 1 thing they either hated, disagreed with; or don't understand.
• The book will be within the practice of user experience.
• The book will not be arduous to read!
• Next Month's book will be announced at the current meeting.

This book club is coordinated by Jessica Petersen, Google Profile.

Event updates will also be posted via IxDA Utah

Pick one book and come prepared to discuss it, as well as learn from the people who read the other book.

• Reading:
  • Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research
  • Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing
• Date: Tues., April 26, 2011
• Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
• Location: Tin Roof Grill, 9284 South 700 East, Sandy Map

• Jot down and bring along:
  • 2 things in the posts that really struck a chord;
  • 1 thing you either hated, disagreed with; or don't understand.
• Select next book: I'll be bringing a stack of choices with me for you to flip through. If you have any, bring it along.

• Please RSVP via IxDA Utah.

• February 22, 2010 Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated: 125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach through Design by William Lidwell
• October 26, 2010 The Design of Design
• August 31, 2010 Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click?
• June 29, 2010 Discussed Articles
• April 27, 2010 Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design
• March 30, 2010 The Design of Everyday Things
• January 26, 2010 Twittfaced: Your Toolkit for Understanding and Maximizing Social Media
• October 20, 2009 Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior
• September 15, 2009 Creating the Perfect Design Brief: How to Manage Design for Strategic Advantage
• August 4, 2009 The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
• June 9, 2009 First meeting! Picked our book & discussed locations.

Feel free to add your suggestions to this list (Amazon links for preview/summary purposes):

• Brain Rules by John Medina
• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge
• Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design (Interactive Technologies) by Bill Buxton
• Subject to Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World: Adaptive Path on Design by Peter Merholz, Todd Wilkens, Brandon Schauer, David Verba
• Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications & Clever Devices by Dan Saffer
• A Project Guide to UX by Russ Unger, Carolyn Chandler
• In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing by Matthew E. May
• Experience Design by Nathan Shedroff
• Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior by Indi Young
• Card Sorting: Designing Usable Categories by Donna Spencer
• Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy by Martin Lindstrom
• The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
• Emotional Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
• The Inmates Are Running The Asylum by Alan Cooper

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