This book is for anyone who has a message that they want to get across.
O’Reilly members experience live online training, plus books, videos, and digital content from 200+ publishers.
I’d highly recommend it to educators, not only software and product folks.This book is a good read, and has some fantastic explanations of how someone learns and becomes an expert. Instead of gimmicky approaches based on extrinsic motivations like gamification and viral social media content, Kathy focuses on making the user successful at the larger context, what the user really wants to achieve with your product. I finished the book and thought it was really good, but upon reflection I felt it really wasn't that helpful on it's central theme.
Kathy has 1 job listed on their profile. Looking for Kathy Sierra ?
This book has its unique style and it seemed to me, it will not carry a lot of value.Great book about how people learn and how to help them learn, thus making your users awesome.There's a lot to be said for the premise of this book: if brands design their products (and their marketing, documentation, etc.) View Kathy Sierra’s professional profile on LinkedIn. It's a fun and fast read with lots of visual aids.Wow. I have a page of thoughts. Ve el perfil completo en LinkedIn y descubre los contactos y empleos de Kathy … LinkedIn is the world's largest business network, helping professionals like Kathy Sierra discover inside connections to … Ve el perfil de Kathy Sierra en LinkedIn, la mayor red profesional del mundo. Overview Kathy Sierra used to have a technology blog, Creating Passionate Users. Those themes are:I love Kathy Sierra's writing, but I didn't expect to be so blown away by this book. I've seen bits and pieces of this before, but never before brought together, along with original ideas, in one place in such a framework.
Kathy Sierra (born 1957) is an American programming instructor and game developer.
It reminds me in that respect to McCloud’s Understanding Comics. Kathy Sierra here has brought together best practices from a range of disciplines, design, expertise development, word of mouth marketing, human motivation, pedagogy, etc., and created a grand synthesis that shows how to create the kind of “badass” users that make your product shine. Just not the place I want to be now. No short-term fads.Definitely.
Ironically, the slow and often repetitive build-up of topics on how to help users become badass resulted in the very cognitive leaks that the author devoted significant pages to advocate against.
Those themes are:This is one of the best books I've read on product design and development. [Music licensed from PremiumBeats.com]Book trailer for “Badass: Making Users Awesome” by Kathy Sierra, published by O'Reilly Media. In the U.S., people often mistake Icelandic horses for cute little ponies. Another test I use for process books is whether I am likely to have different/more ideas if I read it again. I thought that she was a brilliant speaker and that the book should definitely be great and that someday I must read it. [if you're looking for the teaching-myself-Clojure music game and code,
View the profiles of professionals named "Kathy" on LinkedIn. For me, the main takeaway were two eye-opening ways of how experts learn, and that was something that's directly applicable today to becomDefinitely. Badass isn't a software process book, but it passes that test with flying colors. In fact I can see that if you tried leveraging some of the advice in the book you could create awful messes with thThis book is a good read, and has some fantastic explanations of how someone learns and becomes an expert. We’d love your help. There are 955,000+ professionals named "Kathy", who use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas, and opportunities. I've put on my calendar to read this one again in three months.
In March 2007 she announced that she was cancelling her appearance at O'Reilly ETech.
Easy to flip through; easy to retain the little sound bytes.It reads like a witty Power Point presentation, and I'm not opposed to that. Actually, it's less of a book and more of a slideshow, with tons of stock photos, diagrams, flow charts, and relatively little text, but the format works, and it conveys the key themes of the book in a clear and memorable way. The book is visually attractive and a compelling, engaging read.
Before I read it, I had heard a lot of recommendations and reviews, all of them described the book as a 'must read'. The whole book is built around the question of what differentiates products with long term success from ones with short term successes.I believe this book should be on every product manager's shelf. Kathy has 2 jobs listed on their profile. Before I read it, I had heard a lot of recommendations and reviews, all of them described the book as a 'must read'.