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CanUX KeynoteLou remembers that we sat on the floor in the hotel hallway at 1:00 am at the IA Summit in Vancouver to demo his new toy and I suggested the name UX Zeitgeist :)3 years ago
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CanUX KeynoteWe did a prototype, with Lulu.com (print on demand). We had a perfect bound, 4-color, prototype. We learned that the FAQ for the book worked well for people. We needed closer integration with web based content. People needed a whole section to explain what the site offered from the book.
Improving the index. Making sure we didn’t miss obvious things. No one knew Indi Young, needed to have a bio page.
It cost us a couple thousand dollars and a couple days of work, and we amortize this over the whole series.
Gene: question. Title is small, thumbnail won’t show. Does designing for Amazon an afterthought? It’s primary for the business model. Amazon Marketplace program 17%, Barnes & Noble 55% of cover price.
Book site for Indi - "mental models" comes up 8 in google for her booksite.
Robin Sutherland - can you sell chunks of a book? Lou: see Safari?3 years ago
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CanUX KeynoteSo, I thought I’d try to add some notes while Lou is talking...
Readers: "I don’t want to slug through a 60 page chapter on anything"
Page count inflates with 6x9 and wide margins, so gives impression that it *isn’t* short enough to read on the plane.
PDF - increase type size so that bigger type for reading on screen - but this also inflates page count even more3 years ago
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