Posts About Book Reviews

Book Review: The Dip

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

I agree with my colleague Eric Myers’s sentiments that The Dip is basically a 70-page blog post by Seth Godin. That aside, I see this book as being useful for someone who wants or needs change (“someone” can equal “an organization”). The book forces you to question which pursuits you should continue. Godin also forces [...]

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Book Review: The Invisible Computer

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

I love Don Norman’s The Invisible Computer. It is packed with so many great ideas and observations that I cannot share them all with you without writing a book myself. So here are the basic points of the book. Technorati Tags: usability, book review, technology, marketing

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Book Review: Designing Web Usability

Friday, May 5th, 2006

Book Review: Designing Web Usability I’ve finally finshed reading another staple piece of literature in our field of web design. Although slightly outdated, Jakob Nielsen’s Designing Web Usability is a must read. Seriously, go get it. It’s your responsibility as a web designer to know this information.

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Book Review: Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition

Monday, September 19th, 2005

Have you ever decided how to organize information on a Web site, probably by designing a navbar of sorts? Then you’ve been an information architect!

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Book Review: Unleashing the Ideavirus

Tuesday, June 21st, 2005

Thanks to Eric Myers, I am a reader and fan of Seth Godin‘s work. Not only does Godin stay ahead of the curve with marketing ideas and trends, but he communicates his ideas related to this subject really well in his books. He takes explosive ideas and somehow smacks them into books that become highly [...]

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Book Review: Leonardo’s Laptop

Tuesday, April 19th, 2005

I am grateful that I stumbled across Ben Shneiderman. I could tell from his speech I attended at The Ohio State University that he is a visionary, almost to levels of absurdity. But this works very well for him.

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