UX Reading Group

One of the things we’ve suggested doing in the UX WG was a reading group.

I suggested we read https://www.tragicdesign.com. I have a copy. Would anyone else be interested in reading it, together, and then commenting on it? I’m not sure of the best way to do that.

I won’t be able to meet up until June, but perhaps that would give us time to order it and read some of it before staging the first discussion.

Totally up for this! I think June is perfect timing for us to order and read it. Who else is in?

if maybe it was more like - read chapters 1-3 then i would definitely be up for it.

That works for me! How about we set up a meeting at the end of the first week of June, to review chapters 1-3?

Sure - let me take that meeting action from you since you’re vacationing :wink:

Made a whenisgood for June!

https://whenisgood.net/sustainbookclub

Excellent! I just put in my availability

I love the idea. We should highlight this in the Slack and in today’s meeting. I wonder if anyone in the Open Source Design community would be interested in participating in this reading group just because of the overlap of interests too.

Okay! looks like the best date is in early June!

We’re looking at these time (in UK BST time):

@RichardLitt any preference?

Tuesday at 3pm on the 8th works best for me. :slight_smile:

Works for me! (adding chars to exceed 20!)

Great! I’ve made a calendar invite that if you want me to send out I can but also I suggest we use https://meet.jit.si/opensourcedesign and hang out there on June 8th at 15.00 UK BST time // 10.00 East Coast USA EDT // 07.00 West Coast USA PST!

Go ahead and send that, if you could! :slight_smile:

Invite for the book club meeting next week?

I think I made the calendar invite public now: https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=XzZvcDNpZTFpODhzajJiYTI2aDFqY2I5azZwMTRhYjlvOGdvajBiYTI3MHJqYWNwajZsMms4aGEzODQgZXJpb2xkb2VzZGVzaWduQG0&tmsrc=erioldoesdesign%40gmail.com

So we had our first meeting of the UX book club today (yay!) and we’ll continue with monthly drop-in sessions at the same time: The second Tuesday of the month at 15.00 BST.

Here’s the published calendar event for the book club: https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=M2djN29wMWlnbzJzbWppMG02czlmMjd2MTBfMjAyMTA3MTNUMTQwMDAwWiBlcmlvbGRvZXNkZXNpZ25AbQ&tmsrc=erioldoesdesign%40gmail.com&scp=ALL

Just to note we were all at different places in the book, we were between 0-6 chapters so we had a nice casual chat about our thoughts about what we’ve currently read with kindness and understanding :smiley:

The further books that were suggested could be part of the club are:

The next Sustain Design & UX book club meeting is

Tuesday, July 13⋅15:00 – 16:00 UK Time BST

This happens monthly on the second Tuesday of every month. We meet on the Open Source Design Jitsi room: https://meet.jit.si/opensourcedesign

Link to the published event

I can’t seem to find the published event that is linked; is it public? Could you invite richard at burntfen.com so that I can add it to the Sustain calendar? Thank you.

I won’t be able to host the sustain design & UX book club today. I’m in a very small rural town with awful internet :frowning:

Oh no! Do you want us to postpone until next week? I want you to be there!