UIE Brain Sparks
By Jared M. Spool and User Interface Engineering (UIE)
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Podcast Description
The latest insights from User Interface Engineering on the world of design. Shows include the SpoolCast, Userability and Usability Tools Podcast.
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Brian Suda – Designing with Data | A data visualization, when done well, can be an incredibly powerful way to communicate information. It ultimately boils down to the choices you make in how to design and present the data. If you make the wrong choice you can run the risk of not accurat... | 5/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Steph Hay – Writing Content for Usability | Content is everywhere. With the amount of content users are confronted with everyday it can be challenging to garner their attention. Compounding this problem is the fact that designers and developers are often tasked with writing content that end use... | 4/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Caroline Jarrett – Designing Effective Surveys | Getting data from your users is a fundamental part of creating great user experiences. Surveys are a great way to get feedback and learn about your users. The problem is everyone has sat through a painful, monotonous survey that asked a series of frust... | 4/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hagan Rivers – Designing Dashboards | A dashboard is often the first screen that a user sees in your UI. The importance of visual design and data visualizations is high. But good looks aside, the dashboard has to meet the users’ needs. Beautiful dashboards are futile if the presented infor. | 3/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hugh Beyer – Getting Started with UX Inside Agile Development | Change is always an interruption. For those switching to an Agile process, the transition doesn’t always go so smoothly. Suddenly, with things moving so quickly, the role of UX gets lost in the shuffle. User experience is often disregarded in Agile dev. | 3/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Noah Iliinsky – Telling the Right Story with Data Visualizations A Virtual Seminar Follow-up | The right data can be more effective than words when it comes to telling a story. Even if you have the data, you have to present it in the correct manner. Choosing the right axes, colors and placement are all a big part of putting together a great visu... | 3/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Luke Wroblewski – Examining Mobile User Input | Touch screen devices are commonplace. It's now expected that your mobile experience work as well as, if not better than, your desktop experience. With faster connection speeds, cameras, GPS, gyroscopes, and accelerometers, | 3/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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James Robertson – Innovative Mobile Intranet Design | With mobile, you simply can't have as much content on your pages as you do on the desktop. Intranet access within enterprises is crucial and accessing it with mobile devices is beneficial. However, the vast amount of pages and content is cumbersome and... | 3/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jeff Gothelf – Lean UX: Integrating Design into Agile | Lean UX can eliminate the contractual obligations inherent with specification documents and other deliverables. Designers and developers find it frustrating to put so much effort into a project then not see it ship at the end. Using the Lean UX process, | 2/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anders Ramsay – Designing with Agile A Virtual Seminar Follow-up | There's a belief that user experience insight is lacking in Agile development. Trying to shoehorn UX practices into an Agile process results in a lot of frustration. Often, developers build stuff faster than the designers can design it. | 2/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dave McFarland – JQuery for Agile Prototyping | Technologies are often misunderstood at their outset. This misunderstanding leads to a lack of adoption. This lack of adoption leads to the technology not reaching it’s full potential or not being utilized in useful ways. | 2/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rachel Hinman – Creating Great Mobile User Experiences | Mobile is greatly influencing the user experience community. It’s challenging traditional approaches to design, but also bringing with it a host of new opportunities. Being a user experience practitioner in this changing environment is a bit scary. | 2/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Josh Clark – Buttons Are a Hack A Virtual Seminar Follow-up | Touchscreen devices give you the ability to directly manipulate content. This allows designers to create interfaces where the content itself is the control. This lessens the need for buttons and can reduce the level of complexity within your design. | 2/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lou Rosenfeld – 8 Better Practices for Great Information Architecture A Virtual Seminar Follow-up | The goal of any site is for the right audience to find the right information. But beyond your actual content there are many things that can cause findability issues. These tend to be unanswered questions about your primary audience and whether or not y... | 2/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Noah Iliinsky – The Power of Data Visualizations | A common trap in designing data visualizations is focusing on all the different ways to represent the data, rather than the questions that the data should answer. The presentation of a data set is pointless if it’s not useful, usable, | 1/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jeff Gothelf – Lean UX: Getting Out of the Deliverables Business A Virtual Seminar Follow-up | The goal of Lean UX is to take the focus of user-centered design off of documentation and put it squarely on the experience. The way to do this is to view any design idea as a hypothesis. With a focus on the experience, | 1/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anders Ramsay – Applying Agile Values to UX | The Agile development process is accused often of being too focused on delivery over the user experience. But that’s not to say that Agile is the bane of UX. Anders Ramsay believes it’s important to distinguish between Agile methods and Agile values. | 1/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Josh Clark – Discoverability in Designing for Touch | While the traditional “mouse and cursor” interfaces are still in use, many of us are becoming familiar with touch-based interactions. The power and capabilities of mobile and tablet devices is growing. Often, | 1/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Richard Rutter – JQuery for UX Designers | A designer can never have too many tools and methods for creating their designs. Many times conveying interactions in a static wireframe is difficult. So designers have turned to HTML and CSS to create wireframes and prototypes to provide a richer inte... | 1/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jeff Gothelf – Understanding Lean UX | The term Lean UX is bandied about quite a bit these days. Along with it, there seems to be some confusion as to whether this is just a buzzword, a new way of working, or simply a new description for what people in the UX realm already do. | 12/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lou Rosenfeld – Beyond User Research Live! | UX professionals have made a lot of progress in large organizations. Companies realize the importance of connecting with their users more and more. User research is becoming firmly rooted in many organizations as companies try to produce better product... | 10/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dave Gray – Gamestorming Live! | Gamestorming can allow collaboration to happen. It quickly gets a lot of people working together, sharing ideas, and getting creative. Words may be tricky because you're not certain if someone has interpreted what you’ve said the way you meant it. | 10/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jeff Patton – Story Mapping for UX Practitioners: Tying Agile and UX Together | Story mapping is a way to build a model of user experiences. More than that, in the Agile context, it allows you to tactically plan for what should go into each release. It is a way to get everyone on the team thinking and talking about user experience. | 10/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Luke Wroblewski – Navigating the Mobile Landscape | Mobile is the “hot topic” these days. It’s increasingly at the front of designers’ minds. In a world where the power and capabilities of the device in your pocket are so great, the possibilities become somewhat astounding. | 10/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hagan Rivers – Simplifying Complex Applications | It’s easy for applications to get overcomplicated and bogged down with data - especially in an enterprise setting. It’s hard to keep track of so many different things. When dashboards and widgets are employed, the goal is to make your life easier, | 9/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bill Scott – Design Patterns for Multiple Platforms | As we use a multitude of devices to access the same content, we expect a similar experience across platforms. If you have a great user experience on the desktop, it would be easy to rationalize that your mobile experience, for example, | 9/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Margot Bloomstein – Combining Curation with Your Content Strategy | With the amount of content coming at you from all sides, it can be difficult to make sense of it all and present it in a logical fashion. Curation allows you to create order out of all the chaos. Borrowed from the world of museums, | 9/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brandon Schauer – Getting to Good Design, Faster | Everybody strives to arrive at the end of a project with a great design. But often times the “brilliant idea” isn’t easy to communicate and takes a long time to develop. Brandon Schauer believes that you can develop techniques to help this communica | 9/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cennydd Bowles – UX Design when Time, Money, and Support is Limited | Developing a good set of fundamentals is key to successful user experience design. But if you work for an organization that doesn’t recognize the importance of design, just possessing the skills isn’t enough. | 8/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Steve Portigal – Immersive Field Research Techniques | You can’t ask people what they want. They can’t tell you. The answer is almost always narrow in focus, concerned with the here and now rather than the future. How do you get them to give you the observations you need to design what they will want? | 8/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kevin Hoffman – Facilitating Project Kickoffs | A good starting point is crucial. It sets the tone for everything that comes after. All too often, projects are unsuccessful or labor through growing pains because the importance of this starting point was overlooked. When done right, | 8/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stephanie Sullivan Rewis and Greg Rewis – What Designers Need to Know About HTML5 and CSS3 | The introduction of CSS3 and HTML5 brought with it a host of new capabilities. With most modern browsers supporting CSS3 and HTML5, implementing them into your designs is becoming easier. Understanding the things that are now possible with these new st... | 8/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kim Goodwin – Developing Effective Scenarios | Combining compelling storytelling with research data can help you craft realistic scenarios to guide your design process. Getting to know the specific needs of your users will allow you to address any potential problems they may have. As a consultant, | 8/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dan Rubin – CSS3 for Everyone | Incorporating CSS3 into your designs allows you to create innovative designs with less code and reliance on images. The level of compatibility with many of the browser options out there is already impressive and it continues to grow. | 7/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kim Goodwin – Designing with Scenarios: Putting Personas to Work | Storytelling is a natural form of expression. We’ve all been telling stories from a very young age. Scenarios are the stories that drive design decisions. They put the design into the context of how and why the user will interact with it. | 6/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nathan Curtis – From PDFs to HTML Prototypes | Prototypes help, be they paper, wireframes or PDFs, to exhibit a design idea. They allow you to communicate your idea visually and test aspects of the design. As effective as they are, they have their limitations. | 6/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Luke Wroblewski – Designing Mobile Web Experiences Live! | Mobile design is becoming more important everyday. As the technology and capabilities get better so does the users’ experience. Taking advantage of this technology affords you to opportunity to create experiences that your users have only dreamed of. | 5/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jared Spool – The Essential Principles Behind Great Design Principles Live! | Great design principles guide your team to creating designs that delight your users. Having a set of great principles will allow your team to turn ordinary design into extraordinary design. But not everyone has great design principles. | 5/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Steve Portigal – You’ve Done All This Research… Now What? | Conducting research and gathering data are crucial parts in the process of creating great design. But once you have all of the data, what do you do with it? How do you know you’re extracting the right conclusions and not leaving anything important on t. | 4/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Julie Zhuo – Facebook: Data-Informed vs. Data-Driven Design Decisions Live! | Analyzing data is a great way to make design decisions. But when your analytics log contains billions of clicks, how do you distinguish which ones you should use in forming those decisions? Users’ behavior and activity can provide you with great inform. | 4/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Josh Clark – Designing Tapworthy Mobile Apps | “Thinking mobile” goes beyond scaling down an existing app to fit a smaller screen or making decisions about what content to include. Because the app can be used anywhere by nature and the interface is manipulated with thumbs and fingers, | 4/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Luke Wroblewski – Designing Mobile Web Experiences | The surge in mobile technology is incredible. Manufacturers ship over a million touchscreen phones every day. These devices allow people to interact with the web in new ways. Streamlining your design for mobile helps you focus on what is absolutely ne... | 4/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mike Lee – Designing a Strategy for Organizational Transformations | Mike Lee is the Senior Digital Strategy Advisor at AARP. With much of the organization’s 53-year heritage being within “traditional” media realms, shifting it’s publishing and broadcast businesses into the online world is no small task. In this po | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Noah Iliinsky – Beautiful Visualization: Letting Data Tell the Story | Information Visualization uses the brain’s innate ability to recognize patterns to create visual representations of data. When you see a great visualization, it’s as if you are looking through the eyes of an expert. | 3/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jonathan Snook and Steve Smith – Learning Experiences with Sidebar Creative | Whether it's on the design side or development side there are tricks and techniques you can benefit from. Often, these tips can save you time and frustration. You may not even be aware of them unless someone actually shows them to you. | 3/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ethan Marcotte – The How and Why of Responsive Web Design | More types of devices are accessing your web content everyday. Have you figured out how to accommodate them? Ethan Marcotte is leading the charge in this area, with his work on Responsive Design, which can help your content scale and adapt to new devices. | 3/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Noah Iliinsky – The Steps to Beautiful Visualizations | Translating information and data into a useful visualization is challenging. When creating information visualizations, as with any design process, it’s imperative to keep your audience in mind. With quality visualizations, | 3/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stephen Anderson – The Quest for Emotional Engagement | Stephen Anderson, designer and creator of the Mental Notes card deck, believes your users must be emotionally engaged if you want them to exhibit a certain behavior. Stephen uses simple visual representations to help people make choices and understand ... | 3/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bryan Veloso and Dan Rubin – Peeking Over the Shoulder of Design Experts | Certain tips and tricks you can only learn from watching the best in the field do what they do. Peeking over the shoulder of an expert can teach you valuable techniques and insights that you won’t find in any book. | 3/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: 5 Simple Principles for Improving Your Information Architecture – Q&A with Dan Brown | Information architecture exists in all levels of design, from the most abstract to the most concrete. Everything from thinking about the content of the site right down to embedding a navigation strategy determines the structure of a website. | 2/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Mobile Apps – Web-based or Native? – Q&A with Josh Clark | With mobile quickly emerging as a viable and practical source of web based content, designers need to know how to adapt and keep up. With the sheer number of different devices out there it can be a daunting prospect. | 2/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Designing for Mice and Men: UI Across Platforms – Q&A with Bill Scott | The number of places that you can access the web grows every day. But are you designing for it? How do your users see your content? And more importantly, how are they interacting with it? Bill Scott joins Jared Spool and discusses the challenges and a ... | 2/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Sharing Stories as Data: Building PatientsLikeMe’s Community – Q&A with Kate Brigham | Kate Brigham is the Patient Experience Manager at PatientsLikeMe. Rather than focusing solely on forums and discussion, she has helped create an environment that encourages sharing amongst the patients. In this podcast, | 2/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: When Search Meets Web Usability Q&A with Shari Thurow | How do you bridge the gap between the search engine and your site? You want that transition to be as smooth and natural for your users as possible. Ideally, they would start with their search, arrive at your site and accomplish what they set out to. | 2/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Visual Design Essentials for Non-Designers with Dan Rubin | Visual design is often considered an artistic realm. Many times people shy away from design or limit their involvement despite being completely capable of creating a great design. Learning the basics of design can help dispel the notion that it is only... | 2/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Visual Design for Web Applications with David Rivers | Web applications live in a strange world―half application, half website. Making a command look like a command can be tricky. Do you make it a button? Should it be a link? David discusses a number of considerations for creating or updating your app... | 1/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: The Power of Ad Hoc Personas: Truly Practical Methods to Get Your Organization on the Same Page with Tamara Adlin | Effective communication is the basis for keeping your team organized. But how can you be certain that everyone in your organization is on the same page when it comes to business goals, objectives and the user experience perspective? | 1/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Leveraging Seductive Interaction Design with Stephen Anderson | Seductive interactions leverage the latest advancements in social science, psychology, and behavioral economics. Stephen Anderson shows us specific examples of sites who’ve designed serendipity, arousal, rewards, | 1/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Answered! Your Top Questions on Web Form Design with Luke Wroblewski | Knowing exactly how to design web forms is a struggle. Forms are often a critical step in a user’s journey. It’s easy to frustrate them if your forms aren’t well thought out or well crafted. Luckily, Luke Wroblewski is one of the world’s foremost | 1/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Organization Schemes for Web Content with Donna Spencer | When approaching your information architecture, you’ll realize most sets of content can be organized in more than one way. You need to figure out which works best for your audience, your content, and your project’s goal. | 1/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Kim Goodwin’s “Getting Design Into the Corporate DNA” UI15 Session Sample | Design has made a lot of progress in the corporate landscape over the past decade, but many designers still find themselves justifying their existence on a fairly regular basis. In Kim Goodwin’s talk, “Getting Design Into the Corporate DNA” from the | 1/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: A Practitioner’s Guide to Prototyping with Todd Zaki Warfel | Prototyping is an iterative process. You generate design concepts. You test them. You discover what works, what needs improving, and opportunities for new ideas. Tune in to this podcast to hear Todd Zaki Warfel talk about prototyping. | 1/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Luke Wroblewski’s “Why You Should Design for Mobile First” UI15 Session Sample | For years, the mobile web experience was little more than an afterthought as most design teams focused on catering their designs to the desktop. As Luke Wroblewski explains in his session “Why You Should Design for Mobile First” from the User Interfac | 1/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Kristina Halvorson’s “Message and Medium: Better Content by Design” UI15 Session Sample | At this year’s User Interface Conference, Kristina Halvorson presented “Message and Medium: Better Content by Design.” Here's a sample of her talk from the conference. | 12/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: SEO and User Experience in Harmony with Tamara Adlin and Vanessa Fox | SEO and User Experience shouldn't be at odds with one another. That's what Vanessa Fox and Tamara Adlin tell us in this week's SpoolCast with Jared Spool. | 11/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Leah Buley’s UX Team of One, Revisited | Leah Buley discusses her latest findings in her work with small teams and solo UXers with our Jared Spool. | 10/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Designing with Scenarios featuring Kim Goodwin | Scenarios are comprehensive stories that describe the way a persona would interacts with your product or service. If there is a grand dutchess of personas, scenarios, and design processes, it's Kim Goodwin. | 10/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Luke Wroblewski and Innovations in Web Input | To give you a taste of Luke Wroblewski's upcoming UI15 talk, Jared Spool had a chance to speak with him about some of the latest trends, good and bad, in web input. | 10/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Mark Burrell’s Search Patterns Revisted | Today we're revisiting search patterns by sharing the followup podcast Jared Spool recorded with Mark Burrell of Endeca. Jared and Mark discuss a few bonus questions from the previous Virtual Seminar. Included in the full post are a few highlights from... | 9/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Reusable Components & Libraries with Nathan Curtis | Jared Spool chats with Nathan Curtis about the reuse and standardization of components that make up your web site. | 9/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Userability Podcast #19 – Be a Linchpin | This week, calling in from beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah, is Grady Kelly. Grady is inspired by Seth Godin's new book, Linchpin. He wants to know how UX professionals can work to become indispensable team members and not just another cog in the machine. | 7/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Userability Podcast #18 – Is Virginia, Is Not Virginia | Joe Sokohl calls in with a question about using distributed teams on UX projects. Robert Hoekman and Jared Spool have plenty to say on the topic! | 6/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Userability Podcast #17 – My Stylish Idaho | Hugh Griffith from Boise asks Jared and Robert, what happens when you swap radio buttons and checkboxes with more stylish graphic replacements? | 6/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Hagan Rivers’ Escaping Navigation Hell, Live! | Web applications can get wild. You know the kind; something that's on your corporate intranet with an obscure purpose, hundreds of screens and some kind of navigation kudzu growing in every direction. Hagan Rivers is one of our favorite wranglers of su... | 6/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Userability Podcast #16 – Testing Without Solutions | Our guest Jon Wold from Oslo brings up a really great point about test results: It’s hard to report on problems without providing suggestions for correcting the problems you observe in testing. Tune in to get Jared and Robert's suggestions on the topic. | 6/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Stephen Anderson’s Designing Seductive Business Apps: Live! | It's becoming common to see behavioral cues in everyday web applications. Stephen Anderson is the first person we think of when it comes to these kinds of interactions. Stephen is an independent consultant and creator of the Mental Notes, | 5/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Steve Portigal’s Deep Dive Interviewing Tips Revisited | We tell our clients this constantly: the organizations who are most successful are the ones who are on intimate terms with how and why their customers use their product. But how? To answer that question, we invited our friend Steve Portigal to host a U... | 5/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Userability Podcast # 15 – Going Social | It seems we've failed to offend our international audience sufficiently, so this week we'll try again by chatting with Jay Vidyarthi, a designer hailing form Montréal, Québec, Canada. Jay is working on a project with social design aspects. | 4/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Bill Scott’s Desiging for Interesting Moments: Live! | Bill Scott's Designing for Interesting Moments was one of the highlights of the first stop on UIE's Web App Masters tour, in San Diego. We wanted everyone to benefit from his research into web interactions, | 4/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Crumlish and Malone Design the Social In | As soon as we saw Erin Malone and Christian Crumlish’s new book, Designing Social Interfaces, we knew you’d want to hear about their rich collection of social patterns and principles. | 4/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Userability # 14 – Growing in UX | This week, Mohammed Alaa calls in from Egypt with questions about convincing stakeholders of the value of UX and about improving his own UX skills. Robert Hoekman and Jared Spool are back with another episode of Userability! | 4/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Care and Feeding the Corporate Cash Cow with Ken Kellogg | Ken Kellogg, the Director of User Research at Marriott International, sits down with Jared Spool to discuss the process of design and research that lay beneath a web site that generated $6.5 billion in revenues in 2009. | 3/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Backstage at 37signals with Jason Fried | Jason Fried brings a unique viewpoint to any design discussion, one informed by years of success with his company, 37signals. Recently, Jared Spool was able to chat with Jason about 37signals' current work. | 3/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Design Lessons from Facebook’s 350 Million with Julie Zhuo | Julie Zhuo is the principal designer behind the Facebook Platform and Facebook Connect experiences, and has contributed to the last two major site redesigns. She sat down to chat with our Jared Spool. | 3/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Interesting Moments with Bill Scott | Bill Scott chats with Jared Spool about rich interactions, his new book about them, and his deep history with them at Sabre, Yahoo! and now Netflix. Bill is one of the stellar presenters scheduled for all four cities on the UIE Web App Masters Tour. | 2/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Moving Beyond Static Forms with Luke Wroblewski | The world's foremost authority on web forms is Luke Wroblewski, author of the heralded book, Web Form Design. It's no coincidence that we lean on Luke often to join us at events like our upcoming Web App Masters Tour. | 2/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Leveraging Search Patterns & Discovery with Peter Morville | In this podcast, Jared Spool sits down with Peter Morville to answer many excellent questions from the recent Leveraging Search and Discovery Patterns virtual seminar. Even if you did not attend, there's a lot of great information in this podcast. | 2/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Escaping Navigation Hell with Hagan Rivers | We turn to Hagan Rivers for insight on designing challenging web applications year-after-year because she just keeps coming up with better and better ideas. Recently, Jared sat down to talk with Hagan to discuss her somewhat radical notion, | 2/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Stephen Anderson on Seductive Interactions | How can we design systems that encourage the behaviors we want? In this episode, Jared speaks with Stephen Anderson about using human psychology in web apps to encourage users' behavior. | 1/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Prototyping Seminar Follow-up | A followup conversation with Fred Beecher answering more questions about prototyping tools and techniques, after his popular, recent Virtual Seminar on the topic. | 1/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Effective Moderating for Usability Testing Followup | Back in October, we asked usability testing expert Beth Loring to present a UIE Virtual Seminar on how to Effectively Moderate Usability Tests. As is often the case, we got lots of great questions from the live audience, | 1/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Recruiting for Usability Testing Followup | User experience research lives or dies by the appropriateness of the participants in the study. If the participants match the real users, you're set. We held a Virtual Seminar with Dana Chisnell to discuss recruiting for usability testing, | 12/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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UI14 Session Sampler: Leah Buley’s A UX Team of One. | An audio selection from Leah Buley's A UX Team of One 7.5MB - 14min 15sec - If you didn't attend the User Interface Conference this year, you may have missed the buzz over Leah Buley's session entitled "How to be a User Experience Team of One". | 11/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Innovation Beyond the Buzzword | How can you bring real innovation into your projects? That's what I asked Scott Berkun when we spoke earlier this month. Scott has a lot of great ideas for your team from his years of research into the habits of highly innovative teams. | 10/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Visual Design for the Non-Designer | What can a non-designer do to harness the power of visual design without calling professional help? Quite a lot, says internationally-regarded visual designer Dan Rubin. We called Dan to talk about what design techniques are accessible to mere mortals. | 10/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Information Architecture Essentials | Donna Spencer is our long-time, go-to expert on the topic of Information Architecture. We're happy to bring her stateside again for the upcoming User Interface 14 conference. Recently, I spoke with her, all the way from Australia, | 10/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Prototyping Experiences | Todd Zaki Warfel has just finished two years of research into the tools and processes used in prototyping web sites. His findings will be published in a book due out this fall and we've asked him to give a full-day workshop on the topic at UI14. | 9/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Designing for Facets Followup | A few weeks back we held a UIE Virtual Seminar with Pete Bell and Daniel Tunkelang of Endeca. These guys are the experts we go to when talking about designing for facets. As always, we had a number of excellent questions from the live audience that we... | 9/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SpoolCast: Managing Sites for Top Tasks | One of the most popular speakers in the history of our User Interface Conference is Gerry McGovern. Certainly most of that popularity is thanks to Gerry's no-nonsense, customer-centric approach to content management strategy. | 9/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Userability #13 – Renaissance Man | This week we have our longest, and certainly one of our most interesting episodes to date. Jared and Robert met Joshua Muskovitz on the IxDA discussion list when Josh posted an innocent-enough question to the list: what do you call someone who sits squ... | 8/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 100 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Clarified what I already believed and more.
Listened to my first podcast from April and it was wonderful. This is my main area of interest. Luke Woblewski's talk was illuminating (not an exageration).
Concise, unique, informative
This podcast stands out among its peers for its uniqueness, content quality, and attention to detail. After sifting through lots of podcasts and webinars pertaining to web design, internet marketing, and page optimization, I have found it refreshing to listen to these talks. Standing apart from derivative, me-too podcasts, the SpoolCast offers well edited content that informs, entertains, and doesn't waste your time.
And its theme music is cool.
If you are a designer, you had better be listening
Jared Spool and his merry band of User Experience practitioners offer practical advice that every designer should apply to their craft. If you are not taking advantage of these podcasts along with any of the other great offerings that you can find at uie.com then you are behind the rest!!
