For a limited time, you can get a free Rosenfeld Media book when you make a WebSort purchase.
On the heels of Todd Zaki Warfel’s Prototyping: A Practitioner’s Guide, another great Rosenfeld Media book has been released. It’s Remote Research: Real Users, Real Time, Real Research by Nate Bolt and Tony Tulathimutte.
 Prototyping by Todd Zaki Warfel |
 Card Sorting by Donna Spencer |
 Remote Research by Nate Bolt & Tony Tulathimutte |
What do these books have in common with Donna Spencer’s Card Sorting? They all mention WebSort or the people behind it. That, and because we love the practical approach of Rosenfeld books, is why we’re excited to announce a new offer. For a limited time, you can get a free Rosenfeld Media Book when you make a WebSort purchase. Check out the details here.
In the case of Prototyping, Todd mentions a conversation we had a couple years ago:
Jed shone some light on something that had been sitting there all along– prototyping as a way to work through your own designs.
I can’t take full credit for the idea, since it really came out of my experience with former grad school professor Chris Conley (who is now also a part of LimeChile). Chris showed us that traditional product designers don’t always sketch ideas of what they already have in mind, but rather they sketch to bring ideas to mind and work them out. Should that corner have a chamfer or radius? Let me sketch it and see.
I realized that same approach applied to the interactive prototyping work I was doing- the type of work that at the time was thought of as something you hired a developer to do once the designer had already specified the details. I’m glad that’s changed as more interaction designers have picked up the skills to actuallymake stuff beyond flowcharts. Even if you don’t dabble with Flash or Javascript, you can find a developer and get them involved early to help you work through little bits and pieces of a design without knowing exactly what it is.
It is this kind of great practical advice that you’ll find in all three of the books that WebSort has available, and we’re really excited to share them with you. So sign up or sign in and get reading!
Update
2010.02.17 – We’ve received such a great response from this promotion that we have decided to keep it going indefinitely. Yes, you read that right – from now on, any WebSort purchase will get you a digital or paperback copy (or both!) of one of the three Rosenfeld Media books listed above. No more ‘limited time’. So if you play your cards right (bad pun intended), you could end up with a free copy of all three. Nice …
