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A newsletter with… actual news! |
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🎉 December 5, 2023: Welcome to the first edition of the Rosenfeld Report! If you’re looking to find about new books, calls for presenting at our conferences, special deals, and all things Rosenfeld, we’ve got you covered here. Each issue also includes a handful of essential UX news and perspective from around the Web, hand-selected by curator Uday Gajendar, to keep you current on the state of the profession.
— Lou Rosenfeld, Publisher |
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Workshop: UX for AI: A Framework for Product Design » 3 day virtual workshop with Greg Nudelman
» December 6-8 2023, 9:00am-12:00pm PTDiscover the path to AI project success in this practical workshop. Drawing insights from 32 UX for AI projects, Greg Nudelman will equip you with advanced UX Design skills to lead your next AI project. Register to attend » |
| Conference: Advancing Research 2024 » New York City, March 25-27 Advancing Research is back and in-person! The groundbreaking conference for researchers takes place at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image. Incredible discount (up to $500) until December 13! Learn more » |
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Catch up on recent events |
Discussion: Do you want to work on climate? » Matt Jones, Olga Khroustaleva, Michael Leggett, Karol Muñoz » November 15, 2023 Four UX professionals who have focused their careers around climate tech work told their stories and offered advice on how to transition into climate-focused work. This was the first of a series of discussions addressing the intersections between climate and UX. View the recording »
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Discussions: Six Critical Challenges for UX Researchers » September-November, 2023 Advancing Research curators Chris Geison and Jem Ahmed assembled a series of provocative community workshops, with panelists taking aim at the most pressing issues facing today’s UX researchers. All six recordings are now available! View the recordings »
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❄️ Holiday Sale ❄️ Up to 50% off books! Explore over 50+ Rosenfeld titles on sale now through December 11. Learn more » |
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Discover our newest books |
| 🎉 Design That Scales now available! In Design That Scales, design systems expert Dan Mall draws on his extensive experience helping some of the world’s most recognizable brands create design practices that are truly sustainable. Order now »
🎧 Listen to Dan talk design systems on the Rosenfeld Review podcast. |
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| Pre-order Duly Noted at 15% off Note-taking aficionados rejoice! Jorge Arango explores the age-old practice of taking notes and demonstrates ow to use the right tools and a bit of discipline to cultivate a “personal knowledge garden” where your thinking will blossom. Pre-order & save 15% »
🎧 Listen to Jorge talk about nurturing your knowledge garden on the Rosenfeld Review podcast. |
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UX perspectives |
| You're all set: Casual language, embedded advertising, and the decline of human-centered design » Jon Kolko
Jon Kolko raises the alarm on drifting away from human-centered design foundations. With a range of examples of casual language, and overt obnoxious cross-promotions within apps, Jon argues this is a normalization of patterns which undermine what so many UX experts have fought for. We must re-assert the balance of useful, usable, and desirable. Learn more » |
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| What is the return on investing in information architecture? » Abby Covert
This long-form essay surveys a range of methods for tackling the ROI for investing in IA, with a bit of fun Greek mythology for storytelling. Abby Covert identifies six areas of investment, like metadata taxonomy, with real examples. Regarding ROI metrics, that could be anything, from output to time to sentiment. It’s all about the team’s intention to invest in IA in the first place! Learn more » |
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| Should we end research projects? » Janelle Ward
This provocative thought experiment tackles the issue of research as a “tool” versus as a “role” within organizations, notably for relationships with Product. Crowdsourced from broader UX research community, Janelle Ward identified a few options to explore: Ops-first approach to research, shared ownership model, product-led with continuous discovery. Learn More » |
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| Designing mind-engaging experiences » Erik Dahl
A summary of the latest book by Andy Clark, The Experience Machine, this essay offers a perspective on our primary challenge as UX designers. Clark posits our brains are active prediction engines, taking in sensory data and forming expectations. There’s an interplay of expectations, attention, and sensations that defines one’s experience. How we synthesize them could determine the success of a design! Learn More » |
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| Visualizing research using framework darwinism » Jan Chipchase
Famed ethnographer Jan Chipchase offers an overview of a process called “Framework Darwinism” as a way to create a stress-tested set of frameworks for rapid research projects. It’s a bit like rapid prototyping with diverse inclusive teams, from low-fidelity frameworks (hunches) with more fidelity to shape the next day of research activity. This includes conceptual frameworks and data-driven models as well. Learn More » |
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Curated by Uday Gajendar Uday, a product design manager at Aurora Solar, specializes in "next-gen" innovation projects and "three-in-a-box" product development, collaborating with business and engineering leads. |
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