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I'm back to working hard on the site search analytics book, now with a new co-author, Marko Hurst. More here.
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E-consultancy just interviewed me about one of my favorite topics, site search analytics. Many thanks to Richard Maven for the excellent questions. In my last answer, I let slip some big news on the site search analytics book front; more on that soon...
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Subscribe to the low-traffic, highly informative, and occasionally entertaining Rosenfeld Media announcements list by September 29 and you'll be entered our IDEA 2008 raffle. Details here.
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 Today my bookkeeper Eloise and I calculated Indi and Luke's royalty checks.
I actually got a little choked up. Not because I was sad to see that money readying its departure from the Rosenfeld Media bank account. (Though I was.) But because we were paying our first two royalty checks, because we've sold enough to pay so soon, because the books are wonderful and the authors are deserving, and because the checks are big enough that Luke and Indi should at least buy a round next time you see them at the bar. (Maybe you'll catch them at one of these events.) It's a great...
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Want to join Steve and me in Chicago on October 16-17? Then please register here by this Friday to receive the early bird discount.
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...and another "Defining the damn thing" discussion about IA breaks out on the IAI-members list. Only this time, thanks to Jorge Arango, there's an interesting and useful artifact from the discussion.
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000A0F6O0/
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One of the nicest things about moving in New York has been getting to know Jeffrey Zeldman of A List Apart/Designing with Web Standards/Happy Cog fame. I spoke at his conference, An Event Apart ("the design conference for people who make websites"), a year or so ago, and it was a wonderfully-produced event. AEA takes place once more this year, in Chicago October 13-14 (just before Steve Krug and I do our thing there on October 16-17). Jeffrey's kindly offering a special discount to Friends of Steve and Lou; just use the discount code AEASKLR when you register and you'll save $100 off the registration price. Thanks Jeffrey! While...
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Steve Krug and I are at it again. We'll be teaching our new workshops this fall in Chicago (October 16/17) and Washington, DC (November 11/12). We're offering discounts for early registration, for groups of three or more, and for signing up for both days. More info here. I must say, it's been fun to assemble an entirely new workshop (I just started teaching this one in the spring). When you teach the same class for many years, like my old enterprise IA seminar, it tends to get overloaded and difficult to squeeze into one day. I centered the new one from the start around hands-on exercises and discussion. Of course, it's still...
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Pushing ten weeks and 14 pounds...  More photos here.
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I've long advocated for banning the term "redesign" from design discussions. (Crazy me, but I just think it's a good idea to keep clear of time-boxed projects that are ill-conceived and ultimately a waste of effort and money.) I think terms like "refine" and "tune" do a far better job of describing what we should be doing: instituting ongoing processes that help our sites evolve in response to a multitude of changing variables. I hate to sound like a fascist, but I think "build community" ought to be the next one we throw on the pyre. Dunno, maybe I've read too many RFPs of late, but what the hell is it supposed to mean?...
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Saul Carliner was kind enough to interview me for the latest issue of the Information Design Journal. If only it was online...
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I'll once again plagiarize my announcement over at the Rosenfeld Media site. But first: Nathan Shedroff is a truly outstanding person. And there's really no design topic that's more important than sustainability. Wow. I. Am. Thrilled. OK, here's the announcement: Four years ago, Peter Morville rolled out the user experience honeycomb, with its seven facets of UX. Since then, there's been something of a cottage industry of suggesting new facets (all of which, unfortunately, throw off the geometry of Peter's elegant hexagon). Perhaps it's time to consider adding yet another facet: sustainability. What and how we design has implications, especially when our designs are ultimately fabricated, transported, and...
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On the other hand, it's been a great boon to my personal productivity so far. The story from Mashable.
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I'm quite excited about this one. In the interests of efficiency, I'll just steal the announcement from the Rosenfeld Media site: Many in the user experience world are become quite familiar with Kevin Cheng's wit and perspective through OK/Cancel, the brilliant comic strip he co-creates with Tom Chi (more about Kevin here.) Now we'll get to delve further into Kevin's creative mind: he's agreed to write See What I Mean: How to Use Comics to Communicate Ideas for Rosenfeld Media. Kevin and I have been bouncing around this book idea for years, and I'm thrilled that we'll have an opportunity to work together. Many recognize that comics are a powerful design tool, but...
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