The Big Web Show
By 5by5
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Podcast Description
The Big Web Show features special guests and topics like web publishing, art direction, content strategy, typography, web technology, and more. It's everything web that matters. Hosted by Jeffrey Zeldman.
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The Big Web Show 70: Dan Benjamin | Jeffrey Zeldman speaks with Dan Benjamin about his career and life journey leading up to the creation of 5by5. | 18 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 69: Chris Cashdollar | In Episode No. 69 of The Big Web Show, Happy Cog creative director Chris Cashdollar (@ccashdollar) and Jeffrey Zeldman (@zeldman) discuss the joys and challenges of redesigning typography mega-site Fonts.com; nimble versus waterfall; process versus inspiration; running a creative department that is interactive in every sense of the word; the two sides of a design education (learning and teaching); fostering collaboration; and the transition from doodling eight-year-old to graphic design student to interactive creative director. Christopher Cashdollar is a multi-disciplinary graphic designer with 12 years of interaction design experience. He is currently the Creative Director for Happy Cog Philadelphia, and an adjunct instructor for Drexel University's Westphal College of Media Arts and Design. | 3 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 68: Tantek Çelik | Jeffrey Zeldman speaks with Tantek Çelik, web standards lead at Mozilla. | 26 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 67: Special Message for Big Web Show Video Subscribers | If you are a subscriber to the video version of Big Web Show, please subscribe to the audio version of the podcast. We are no longer publishing a video version of the show. | 24 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 66: David Sleight | In Big Web Show Episode No. 66, Jeffrey Zeldman interviews veteran web designer and publishing creative director David Sleight about how traditional publishers can transition to creating successful digital experiences, and the (mostly conceptual) obstacles they will have to overcome to do so. Topics discussed in this episode include: why publishers alternately blame technology and treat it as a savior; the downside for magazine publishers of Apple's new retina display; why content thieves may be your best customers in waiting; content-focused responsive design versus printed page emulation; and much more. | 8 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 65: Tim Brown | Jeffrey Zeldman interviews Tim Brown of Typekit and Nice Web Type on where we are with web fonts, real web type in real web context, using Dribbble to develop a tone of voice, how saving small snippets of other people's content can turn you into a blogger, Samantha Warren's Style Tiles, molten leading orbital content, pages versus chunks, the type-driven design, web font fallbacks, the connection between leading and font family, transitioning from university work to Typekit, and much more. | 2 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 64: Jenn Lukas | Jeffrey Zeldman interviews front-end developer Jenn Lukas about how to tell if you're a designer or coder; in-house versus product development versus consulting; Girl Develop It, a code teaching activity for budding women web developers; the designer/developer collaboration; tabs or spaces; jumping on the SASS bandwagon; staying sane during #siteweek; maintaining an active roster of side projects; the importance of writing; and more. | 24 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 63: Michael Surtees | Jeffrey Zeldman interviews Michael Surtees, founding partner and creative director at Gesture Theory, co-creator of Deckpub ("the future of publishing on iPad"), and author of Design notes. The two designers discuss managing a small, nimble design practice; getting clients; balancing client services work with product development and blogging; Michael's journey from employee to entrepreneur; avoiding static comps and wireframes; and much more. | 17 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 62: Kristofer Layon | Jeffrey Zeldman is joined by Kristofer Layon to discuss his book, Mobilizing Web Sites: Strategies for Mobile Web Implementation, and more. | 10 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 61: Khoi Vinh | Jeffrey Zeldman speaks with Mixel co-creator Khoi Vinh. | 21 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 60: Josh Williams | Jeffrey speaks with Josh Williams, co-founder of Gowalla. | 19 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 59: Mike Monteiro | Jeffrey Zeldman talks with Mike Monteiro of Mule Design. | 2 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 58: Double Release | Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin talk about lost offices, working from home, A Space Apart, A Book Apart's new books: Designing for Emotion and Mobile First, future friendly, police sirens, Steve Buscemi, and more. | 20 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 57: Scott Jehl | Scott Jehl joins Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin to discuss the recent responsive resign of the Boston Globe, jQuery, the jQuery Mobile project, writing and speaking about web design, and his new book, Designing with Progressive Enhancement. | 22 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 56: Faruk Ates | Faruk Ates joins Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin to discuss Modernizr, web and mobile design, Apple, and more. | 8 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 55: Marissa Christina | Marissa Christina joins Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin to discuss her path as a web designer diagnosed with a debilitating vestibular disorder, and her blog Abledis.com, documenting living with a hidden disability. | 1 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 54: Source Of All Knowledge | Dan and Jeffrey talk about freelancing, project managers, setting up a new computer, and much more. | 14 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 53: Raising Rates | Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benamin discuss the business of Web development. | 7 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 52: Greg Hoy | Happy Cog president Greg Hoy joins Dan and Jeffrey to discuss business, design, and more. | 30 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 51: At The Movies | Dan and Jeffrey discuss speaking, offices, distributed working, movies, scorpions, New York, a new AEA location announcement, and more. | 23 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 50: Jen Robbins | O’Reilly author, interviewer of rock stars, and longtime web and UX designer Jen Robbins joins Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin to discuss the web of present and past, book writing, print design, method, style, process, and more. | 2 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 49: Popularity | Dan Benjamin and Jeffrey Zeldman discuss the intersection of community and popularity on the web and in terms of podcasts and social media. | 27 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 48: Pennies Shining Each Other | Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin discuss the state of the web, the evolution of Web Standards, the recent Boston AEA conference, and more. | 5 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 47: Alexa Andrzejewski | Alexa Andrzejewski joins Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin to talk about Foodspotting and the path from user-centered design to the idea of seeing where Anthony Bourdain ate to a shipping product and the decision to take investment money on the way. | 28 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 46: Richard Rutter | Dan Benjamin and Jeffrey Zeldman are joined by Richard Rutter, co-founder of Fontdeck and Clearleft, to discuss typography on the web and more. | 21 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 45: Tim Murtaugh | Dan Benjamin and Jeffrey Zeldman are joined by Tim Murtaugh to talk about design, and the fallacy of developing for the "mobile" platform. | 14 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 44: Sarah Parmenter | Sarah Parmenter joins Dan and Jeffrey to discuss putting yourself online and living in public, creepy stalkers, being star struck, accents and idioms, distinguishing your work and brand through simplifying, her iOS Workshops, and more. | 7 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 43: Krista Stevens | Krista Stevens of Automattic joins Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin to discuss great customer experiences and much more. | 24 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 42: Treesaver | Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin are joined by Filipe Fortes and Scott Kellum, the creators of Treesaver to talk a little about working on closed platforms at Microsoft, how working on a dynamic open publishing platform based on web technologies is a litt | 17 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 41: Best Web Show | Jeffrey is en route to his appearance at SXSW Interactive this week, so we took this opportunity to dig into the Big Web Show archives to assemble a taste test of some of the best guests and topics. Enjoy! | 10 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 40: Andy Rutledge | Designer Andy Rutledge joins Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin to discuss choosing clients, running a small company, and more. | 3 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 39: Brian Alvey | Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin are joined by Brian Alvey to discuss the early days of the web, balancing products and services, taking big meetings, what’s coming next for Content Management Systems, being a small publisher, and moving toward bigger pla | 17 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 38: Jason Snell | Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin are joined by Jason Snell of Macworld to discuss transitioning a print-focused publication into a web-focused publication, mixed models and “trying stuff,” ads and advertisers in multiple media, publishing a website, an Ap | 10 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 37: John Nack | Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin are joined by John Nack to discuss Photoshop and web design, crash reports, how pain points are opportunities, the Mac App Store, and the opportunity for mobile creative apps. | 3 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 36: Mike Essl Pities the Fool | Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin are joined by Mike Essl to discuss Mr. T, combining print and digital content, being Comic Book Guy in the age of eBooks, the past and future of proprietary platforms in publishing, and Mike's fully wearable shirt empire. | 27 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 35: Jen Simmons | Jen Simmons joins Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin to discuss Drupal, the Drupal community, content management systems, design, and the future of publishing. | 20 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 34: Craig Mod | Craig Mod joins Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin to discuss the decision to jump from freelance work to startup work, Craig’s experience traveling and writing the GF1 Fieldtest, how travel affects the work you do, and the multifaceted challenges and futur | 13 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 33: Dana Chisnell | Dana Chisnell, usability expert, joins Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin to discuss election design, usable security, and more. | 6 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 32: Mandy Brown | Mandy Brown joins Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin to discuss the value of support, the future of type on the web, font choice on reader platforms, what print publishers can learn from web publishers, why you’ve got to write, and why the future belongs to | 23 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 31: Jim Coudal | Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin are joined by Jim Coudal to discuss the phenomenon that is Layer Tennis, his presentation “secrets,” and firing clients to work for yourself. | 16 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 30: Jason Santa Maria | Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin are joined by Jason Santa Maria and discuss mitigating the isolation of working in your underwear by reaching out to the community, avenues for creativity, struggling with the line between good enough and perfection, focus | 9 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 29: Matt Mullenweg | Matt Mullenweg joins Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin to discuss the creation and evolution of WordPress, the growth of Automattic, making money with open source, and more. | 2 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 28: Finding Your People | Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin talk about what they're thankful for, awards, visibility and public speaking (and why you should do it), Pub Standards, meetups (and why you should start or join one), and how to make a change. | 25 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 27: Andy Clarke - It's Hardboiled | Andy Clarke joins Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin to talk about his new book, Hardboiled Web Design, the evolution of the web, and the right way to design with HTML5 and CSS3. | 11 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 26: Gary Vaynerchuk - Effort is Underrated | Gary Vaynerchuk joins Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin to talk about humanizing business, his upcoming book The Thank You Economy, success and guilt, his new radio show, and his biggest mistake. | 4 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 25: Karen McGrane | Karen McGrane joins Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin to discuss putting publications online, the state of content management, careers in web design, running a design business, teaching UX and design, and more. | 28 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 24: Todd Dominey | Todd Dominey, creator of SlideShowPro, joins Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin to discuss making the transition from indy designer to employee to to business owner, his pioneering blog "What Do I Know", Flash, HTML5, and more. | 21 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 23: Paul Ford | Paul Ford joins Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin to discuss the web, the future of publishing, microsites, branding , community, and more. | 14 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 22: Dan Cederholm | Dan Cederholm joins Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin to discuss Dribbble, a vibrant design community for sharing screenshots of your work, Cork’d, the first social network for wine aficionados, his design style, inspiration, and more. | 7 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 21: Just the Two of Us | We're mixing it up for today’s episode of The Big Web Show. Instead of interviewing one or more amazing web innovators per our standard practice, Dan Benjamin and Jeffrey Zeldman interview each other. | 30 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 20: Creating Readability | Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin talk with Rich Ziade about how Arc90 manages the balance between product development and client services, and how to build a reputation when your client services agreements prevent you from having a public portfolio. | 24 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 19: Beyond Usability with Aarron Walter | Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin talk with Aarron Walter, lead user experience designer for MailChimp, about white-hat SEO strategies, user intent and content, usability, and more. | 9 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 18: Roger Black on Web Type and Templates | Jeffrey and Dan talk with the legendary Rogert Black about web type, design templates, screen resolution, web publishing, responsive design, and more. | 2 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 17: Web Meritocracy | Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benamin talk with Tracy Osborn about the ins and outs of networking when you're not well known; where ideas and inspiration come from; how to recognize and develop your best ideas and persuade others to believe in them; and more. | 26 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 16: Serious Doodles | Jeffrey and Dan talk with Sunni Brown, noted information designer, about visual communication and debunk the myth that doodling is a distraction. | 12 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 15: Social Media, Social Capital | Tara Hunt, social media entrepreneur, author of The Whuffie Factor, cofounder of Citizen Agency, and one of Fast Company's "women in tech -- nine thought leaders who are changing our ideas about technology" talks with Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin abou | 5 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 14: Design Apps for Fun and Profit | Jeffrey and Dan talk with Gowalla CEO Josh Williams about social media, being an entrepreneur, developer applications for the web and mobile, marketing a new business, and more. | 29 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 13: Voices that Matter | Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin talk with Michael Nolan, a senior editor for Pearson’s New Riders and Peachpit imprints, focusing on web design and development. In this special hour of insights, we discuss how publishing really works, where it’s going, a | 24 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 12: Web Conferences | Dan Benjamin and Jeffrey Zeldman talk with Andy McMillan, founder of Build, an annual “hand-crafted web design conference” located in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and CSS godfather Eric Meyer, co-founder of An Event Apart, the design conference for people w | 15 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 11: Nicole Sullivan on CSS | How do you scale CSS for millions of visitors or thousands of pages? Nicole Sullivan knows, and shares her insight, experience, and expertise in this in-depth discussion with Dan and Jeffrey. | 8 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 10: Less Is Always an Option | Dan Benjamin and Jeffrey Zeldman talk with Jason Fried, CEO and co-founder of 37 Signals about changing an industry, collaborating, reducing distractions and interruptions, design, logos, usability, real and virtual offices, co-working, designing in the o | 1 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 9: Responsive Web Design | Dan and Jeffrey talk with guest Ethan Marcotte, co-author of Designing With Web Standards 3rd Edition, and Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design. Topics include designing and coding for the likes of the Sundance Film Festival and New York Magazine, | 24 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 8: User Experience Design | Dan and Jeffrey talk with Whitney Hess about social networking, client work, and user experience design. | 17 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 7: Usability Testing | Dan and Jeffrey talk with special guest Jared Spool about usability testing in the real world. | 11 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 6: Mobile First | Dan and Jeffrey chat with leading interaction designer Luke Wroblewski about designing for the mobile space, and learn why the mobile experience for a web application or site should be designed before the PC version. | 4 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 5: Web Education | Dan and Jeffrey talk with special guest Liz Danzico, author of Bobulate, and chairperson of the MFA in Interaction Design program at New York’s School of Visual Arts. They discuss web and interaction design education, user experience design, how to struct | 28 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 4: Content Strategy | Dan and Jeffrey talk in-depth about content strategy on the web with Kristina Halvorson, CEO, Brain Traffic and author, Content Strategy for the Web (New Riders, 2010), and Erin Kissane, content strategist with Happy Cog, and author of Incisive.nu. | 20 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 3: Re-invent Yourself | Melissa Pierce’s film, "Life in Perpetual Beta" asks the question, "is the planned life worth living?" and sketches an answer via interviews with the likes of Baratunde Thuston, Irina Slutsky, and Biz Stone. Watch us turn the tables on the interviewer (no | 17 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 2: HTML5 with Jeremy Keith | Dan and Jeffrey talk with Jeremy Keith, designer, writer, speaker, and author of "HTML5 for Web Designers", a new book coming out in June of 2010. They discuss the goals and inspiration behind the book, as well as what HTML5 means for both web creators an | 7 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Web Show 1: Web Fonts | Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin grill Ethan Dunham of Fontspring and Font Squirrel and Jeffrey Veen of Typekit about real fonts on the web. | 29 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Great content, great quality
This is an excellent podcast. Each episode deals with a specific topic in detail by a guest who comes onto the show.
Whatever the content I can't listen to a podcast if the sound quality is off - no problems in that regard. Highly recommended.
Fantastic new podcast
Very few new podcasts even come close to the standard of many longer running shows but with the big web show the guys show it's possible.
A brilliant show, well worth subscribing to.
A must for anyone working in web
A fantastic regular podcast featuring interviews with prolific web designers, developers and entrepreneurs. The show it's produced in a fun yet informative way. A must for anyone working in the world of web.
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