UXnet community building

UXmatters publishes an article by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, John Ferrara and Louis Rosenfeld on the Local UXnet Ambassadors initiative. The article gives a deep insight on the work we Amassadors are doing, the way we’re doing and the problems we’re trying to solve (on the same subject you might want to give a look at the paper I co-authored for CHI2005).

The goal of the UXnet Local Ambassadors Initiative is to foster the growth of UX communities around the world and facilitate networking among them.

The article reports a small list of sidebars from Keith Instone, Pabini herself, Nick Finck and yours truly. It’s a great honour for me having my humble sidebar appearing side by side within such a cream of the crop stories.

Taxiguerrilla – the (e)book

Here’s the cover of the first book (also available for download in electronic format) from my pal Simone. It’s actually my present for Christmas and his birthday: it’s been a tough work which involved his girlfriend (who took care of the editorial stuff) and our friend Livio (who created the wonderful artwork for front/back covers. Francesca’s gone through the whole Taxiguerrilla archives (nearly 3 years of writings) and has chosen the best pieces, then reorganized them in a form suitable for a book. The book (Italian only) is self-published and available for FREE download (Simone is takin a full review of the book, so it’s not available anymore. Stay tuned.) on taxiguerrillathebook.hotmc.com; a preview (PDF file) is available here.