User Experience (UX)

Digital Reading: At the Intersection of Reading and Retail

October 10, 2011 | Anne Kostick | 2

Anne Kostick | Social discovery and attention to detail help readers find (and buy) more books.

Digital Reading: To Succeed, Enhanced Book Apps Need UX Intelligence

September 21, 2011 | Anne Kostick | 0

Anne Kostick | Reading really is a different kind of activity, and apps don’t always support that difference.

Digital Reading: The Book in the Cloud

September 7, 2011 | Anne Kostick | 1

Anne Kostick | Onscreen, offline: cloud reading frees us.

Digital Reading: Liberating Front Matter (A Follow-up)

August 23, 2011 | Anne Kostick | 2

Anne Kostick | In the e-book environment, most front matter doesn’t have to be in front.

Digital Reading: Getting Behind Front Matter

August 8, 2011 | Anne Kostick | 0

Anne Kostick | Front matter needs rethinking to unleash its digital potential

E-Reading Application Showdown, Part 2: Typography

July 28, 2011 | India Amos | 8

India Amos | An overview of how your ebooks render across multiple platforms

Digital Reading: Getting Beyond the Book Fetish

July 25, 2011 | Anne Kostick | 1

Anne Kostick | The book of the future should be more like an app, only better.

Digital Reading: A Summer of E-Shakespeare

July 11, 2011 | Anne Kostick | 4

Anne Kostick | In which the author experiments with and champions the potential of ebooks’ assistive technology.

Storytelling Gets an Upgrade: Beyond Tactile Stories

July 1, 2011 | DBW | 2

J.C. Hutchins | This kind of storytelling is akin to filmmaking — a creative vision overseen by a primary creator but executed by several specialists.

Storytelling Gets an Upgrade: Interaction Illustrated

June 29, 2011 | DBW | 4

J.C. Hutchins | A story’s “touchable moments” can be designed to put the reader in the driver’s seat in emotionally resonant ways.

Storytelling Gets an Upgrade: Reach Out and Touch It

June 27, 2011 | DBW | 11

J.C. Hutchins | The iPad enables storytellers to immerse readers by using physical interaction as a meaningful part of the narrative.

Digital Reading: Coming to a Cookbook Near You—The Semantic Web and Open Data

June 20, 2011 | Anne Kostick | 2

Anne Kostick | Digital-born cookbooks will span the gap between reading and doing. Who wouldn’t want that?

Digital Reading: First Annual User Experience Awards

June 13, 2011 | Anne Kostick | 2

Anne Kostick | If our digital devices and screens are walls, these UX professionals help us walk through them.

E-Reading Application Showdown, Part 1 – Annotations

June 6, 2011 | DBW | 4

“Because we’re not used to having choices about how we read.., most people haven’t thought much about what makes reading comfortable for them.” India Amos

Digital Reading: Other Conferences, Other Insights

May 23, 2011 | Anne Kostick | 2

Anne Kostick | This is the time for flights of imagination: while we’re reading, wouldn’t it be nice if … ?

Digital Reading: To Do Digital Books Right, Writers Will Learn to Talk Tech

May 16, 2011 | Anne Kostick | 2

“Writers who want to do more than simply present plain text really need to learn how the various parts fit together.” Peter Meyers

Digital Reading: Is It an E-Book or “Just an App”? Comments on Our Choice Give Detailed Feedback

May 9, 2011 | Anne Kostick | 3

Anne Kostick | Remarks about the Our Choice app give a fine example of user research.

Digital Reading: Three UX Principles from the Catalyst Group’s Peter Hughes

May 2, 2011 | Anne Kostick | 0

Anne Kostick | Peter Hughes advises a “concierge” approach to helping user interaction.

Digital Reading: E-Books’ Great Educational Opportunity

April 25, 2011 | Anne Kostick | 5

Anne Kostick | Easy to Read, Hard to Learn?

Digital Reading: Ads Happen

April 18, 2011 | Anne Kostick | 3

Anne Kostick | Will the insertion of ads in e-readers change our perception of digital books?

Digital Reading: The Infinite Variety of Experience

April 11, 2011 | Anne Kostick | 0

Anne Kostick | Can a Quilt Show Inspire Digital Book Innovation?

Digital Reading: On the Way to the Webcast, a Funny Thing Happened

April 5, 2011 | Anne Kostick | 1

Anne Kostick | Notes from our last webcast might be the starters for a fresh round of conversation.

Digital Reading: Crowdsourcing an Ebook Wish List

March 29, 2011 | Anne Kostick | 2

Anne Kostick | Many who are disappointed with digital reading’s progress so far just say, “Call me when you’ve perfected it. Until then I’ll stick to print.”

Digital Reading: A UX Bookshelf for Beginners

March 22, 2011 | Anne Kostick | 0

Anne Kostick | These five books can help us change the way we think.

Digital Reading: UX Publishing Outsider May Lead the Way for Publishing Insiders

March 14, 2011 | Anne Kostick | 0

Rosenfeld Media’s user-focused business model serves up books as its customers like them.

Digital Reading: Will “Social” Keep the Experience Value High?

March 7, 2011 | Anne Kostick | 2

Anne Kostick | The next step forward may be a mash-up of text readers, social bookmarking sites and RSS-style feeds.

Digital Reading: The Web Gives Important Feedback

February 28, 2011 | Anne Kostick | 0

Anne Kostick | “There’s a warm reception for long-form writing and reading on the Web, and that’s good news.”

Digital Reading: A Designer Deploys His Left Brain

February 11, 2011 | Anne Kostick | 0

Anne Kostick | “Interactive designer Craig Mod shows how the concept of the book page can burst open when reconstructed on an iPad screen.”

Digital Reading: Thinking on Both Sides of the Screen

February 4, 2011 | Anne Kostick | 3

Anne Kostick | “Kindle Gets It Almost Right”

Digital Reading: Users’ Habits Should Inform Design

January 21, 2011 | Anne Kostick | 2

Anne Kostick | “The primary goal of digital-book development should be creating good user experiences.”

Digital Reading: Are We Experienced?

January 13, 2011 | Anne Kostick | 1

Anne Kostick | “Publishers, not just device makers, need to find out how to fold user experience into the design and editorial mix.”

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