Take the UX Mastery Reader Survey and Win!

UX Mastery has been live for a few months now, and if you’ve been following along then you’ve probably come to know a little bit about us.

You’ve come to know that we like to pontificate about the big picture, we enjoy empowering others to apply user-centred design techniques for themselves, and we like to sketch things.

Now we want to know about you.

Who are you? Where are you at in your career, and where are you going? What is it that brought you to the UX field, how did you learn your craft, and … perhaps most importantly, how can we help? What do you like (or not like) about our fledgling website?

To entice you to open up to us and complete our (really quite short) online survey, we’re offering a carrot. Actually I tell a lie, it’s not a carrot—it’s much tastier than that. It’s the super-mega-awesome-UX-book-bundle-thingy, worth over $150 $200 (the bundle has grown since I first published this post—see below).

One lucky reader will receive these five six prizes:

• 1 UXPin web prototyping kit
• 1 UXPin mobile prototyping kit
• 1 signed copy of Mike Rohde’s soon-to-be-released The Sketchnote Handbook
• 1 signed copy of Jodie Moule’s Killer UX Design
• 1 signed copy of Eva-Lotta Lamm’s Sketchnotes 2011
• …and one more item that we can’t reveal just yet, but we promise it’s awesome. Sorry to be coy—you’ll just have to wait and see.

Note these are physical, paperback books, and some of them are signed by the authors and delivered to your door. We think that’s a pretty great prize pack. Think of it as a big fat holiday hamper for UX Designers, although we can’t promise that it will be delivered by a fat old man on a sleigh pulled by flying reindeer. We’ll probably just, you know, use a courier, which means that if you win, the bundle may not actually arrive at your house until January some time. Them’s the breaks.

Now, I know you’re itching to dive in to that survey, and we’ll get to that in a moment. But there is one other thing I should mention before you get started. In order to comply with the gaming regulations for the state of Victoria, we can’t just say “All you have to do is fill out our survey, and you’ll be placed in the draw.” We wish it were that easy. But oh no. Uh uh.

So instead of running a “game of chance” we’re asking you to engage in a “game of skill.” Hopefully that appeals to the competitive streak in you. Don’t worry, we’re not asking you to jump through too many hoops—we’re just asking for your best ideas on how to make the site better. Oh, and you do need to submit the survey before Dec 7th, 2012 to be eligible. Full terms at the bottom of this post.

However, even if you don’t care for the prize pack, or your brain hurts too much from last night’s end-of-year bash, we hope you’ll fill out our little survey anyway—if only to help us make UX Mastery that much better. Here’s the survey link:

• Take the UX Mastery Reader Survey. This survey is now closed.
  

We appreciate all of your honest thoughts and feedback. It will help make UX Mastery a better website.

P.S. A huge thanks to Jodie Moule, Mike Rohde and Eva-Lotta Lamm for kindly donating a signed copy of each of their respective (and excellent) books. All three are lovely folks and talented UX designers in their own right!

*Actually, the bundle is worth more than this, based on the fact that a book signed by the author is higher in value than one that isn’t signed. How much more? Who’s to say? Maybe even a couple of bucks!

About Matthew Magain

Matthew Magain (@mattymcg) is co-founder of UX Mastery. Based in Melbourne, he works as a freelance designer, illustrator and entrepreneur under the name of Useractive. He enjoys sketchnoting at conferences and spends his spare time writing and illustrating children’s books.

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