In his new book, Luke Wroblewski lays out strategies and best practices for getting users past
your web forms and onto more important interactions. Will Evans tells us why reading this book
might help diffuse some of the opinionated discussion about form design decisions.
Review of Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks
In Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home Authors David Shipley and Will Schwalbe give advice on composing and sending email. Read Yaniv Nord’s review of the book.
Book Review of Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home
What strategies has society employed to manage information abundance, while making it meaningful to people? Bob Goodman reviews of Alex Wright’s new book.
Review of Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages
This excerpt from Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages examines the contributions of Denis Diderot to the knowledge of Western societies and how Wikipedia’s rise echoes the rise of his Encyclopédie.
Book Excerpt
How do we learn from designers who have blazed the trail before us? Clifton Evans dives into Bill Moggridge’s Designing Interactions to find out what treasures lie in the stories collected by one of Ideo’s founders.
Book Review - Designing Interactions
We all need help in creating the Next Great Design. Clifton Evans finds valuable support for our work in Interaction Design even as he cautions that there is not a scientific formula for design success.
Book Review - Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction, 2nd Edition
Scott Berkun demolishes the myths that surround innovation, as well as providing a solid foundation for understanding how innovation really happens. If you are involved making creative, powerful ideas real, this book is a must-read.
Book Review: The Myths of Innovation
Though Web 2.0 indicates promise for designing user experiences, Clifton Evans holds our feet to the fire of simplicity and draws us a map using Robert Hoekman’s excellent book as a guide.
Book Review of Designing the Obvious
Personas can be a great and powerful tool, but do we need a tome to learn to use them? Austin Govella dives into the deep end and gives us a glimpse into Pruit and Adlin’s expansive work.
Book Review of The Persona Lifecycle
Still need a holiday gift for your favorite designer or writer? Current and former Boxes and Arrows staff talk about books that have thrilled them recently, as well as books they continue to go back to year after year.