Technology, Information, Experience Design… Helping you get it.

Join the great NYC UX community at SVA’s MFA in Interaction Design department to talk about social experience design and our latest summer reading, Linked.

Date: September 30, 2009
Time: 6:00PM – 8:00PM
Location: 209 E 23rd St., 6th Floor New York, NY
Book: Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means
By: Albert-László Barabási

In the interest of making the most relevant, crowd-pleasing and
talk-worthy book selections, the planning team has decided to gather
options around topics or themes in the UX zeitgeist.

For our September gathering we settled on the theme of “social
experience design”, inspired by the upcoming IDEA conference in
Toronto. To that end, we presented at our last gathering a line up of
book titles related to this theme. Linked, our next book selection,
was the clear preference by those who attended.

Linked is the kind of book that will completely blow your mind when it
comes to understanding the deep, organic structure of networks and how
that structure is shared across everything from cells to societies to
the internet. It will cause you to rethink the nature of social
connectivity and, most important, they way you go about designing
social experiences.

And if that’s not enough of an enticement, we’ll be
holding the gathering in SVA’s brand-new Interaction Design MFA
studio. Many thanks to Jeff Kirsch, one of our planning team members,
who arranged for the location.

So, if you’re in to reading Linked please join us for a fine
evening of wine and great conversation!

Space is limited so please RSVP on our facebook group.

Here are the details:

Schedule:
6:30-7:00 Drinks and mingling
7:00-7:30 Group intros and discussion
7:30-9:00 Smaller group discussions (longer if it feels right)
9:00-9:30 Farewells and, for those interested, cleaning up and more
drinking

(A small donation of $10 is requested to cover food and beverage
costs. Thanks in advance for your participation.)

About the Book:

Albert-László Barabási, the nation’s
foremost expert in the new science of networks, takes us on an
intellectual adventure to prove that social networks, corporations,
and living organisms are more similar than previously thought. A full
understanding of network science will someday enhance our ability to
design blue-chip businesses, stop the outbreak of deadly diseases, and
influence the exchange of ideas and information.

Engaging and authoritative, Linked provides an exciting glimpse into
the next century of science and an urgent new perspective on our
interconnected world.

Hope to see you there!

The UX Book Club Planning Team

Cindy Chastain
Ray DeLaPena
Fritz Desir
Rachel Keeler
Jeff Kirsch
Jonathan Knoll
Chris Palle
Chris Sanchez
Anders Ramsay