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Designing for Mobile Devices - an Interview with Jason Furnell
28/09/2007
Gerry Gaffney asks Jason Furnell about designing for mobile devices.
Along the way, Jason talks about the poetry of movement, the Agile development methodology, and how to navigate a career path in design.
He tells us that without a vision, great minds can go to waste; and how high-fidelity wireframes can help communicate a simple vision.
Jason\'s blog is \'the architecture of everything\'. (jasonfurnell.wordpress.com)
The William Gibson book is Spook Country. (tinyurl.com/2a7mf9)
Duration: 20:29
File size: 7.2MB
Visual Communication - an Interview with Dave Gray
25/07/2007
Dave talks about giving ourselves permission to draw, about how the printing press led us to communicate in a particular way, and about how that can limit our communication in a digital environment, about how PowerPoint can be both inhibiting and comforting, and about how where we are with video today is where we were with PageMaker 20 years ago.
Dave says 'You don't have to be an expert to start - you just have to start'.
There are several references in this episode:
Dave's blog is Communication Nation (http://communicationnation.blogspot.com/).
His company is Xplane (http://www.xplane.com/).
Edward Tufte's inspirational book is 'The Visual Display of Quantitative Information' (http://tinyurl.com/27dw8s).
Betty Edwards' book 'Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain' can teach you to draw - even if you don't think you can (http://tinyurl.com/36jbxj).
The culture map is Dave's representation of the culture at his company Xplane (http://tinyurl.com/3a27bp).
Dave's 'ListMania' booklist is on Amazon.com (http://tinyurl.com/25jqas).
I mentioned Lee Brimelow of Frog Design. One of his sites is the WPF blog - it contains his presentation to the Microsoft Remix conference. (http://www.thewpfblog.com/)
(References to individual books on this webiste are links to Amazon.com - we earn a small commission on any purchases you make on following such links).
Duration: 30:57
File size: 14.2MB
Web Accessibility Guidelines - an Interview with Gian Sampson-Wild
12/06/2007
What is the current status of Version 2 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines?
Gian Sampson-Wild tells us the story.
She also explains how Flickr and Google have used Ajax without sacrificing accessibility.
For more on the Maguire vs SOCOG case, see Joe Clark's reader's guide (www.contenu.nu/socog.html).
A listener subsequently pointed out a USA case - National Federation of the Blind v Target, as described on the Disability Rights Advocates website (http://tinyurl.com/djrfd) - thanks elDavo.
Gian's blog is The Kismet Heuristic (www.tkh.com.au).
You can also read her peer review of the Samurai Errata. (samuraireview.wordpress.com)
You might also want to check out the WCAG Samurai Group website (wcagsamurai.org).
Gian mentions the work of Cameron Adams and Jeremy Keith. Cameron wrote 'AJAX: Usable Interactivity with Remote Scripting' (www.sitepoint.com/article/remote-scripting-ajax) in 2005. Jeremy Keith's book is 'Bulletproof Ajax' (www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321472667/informdesign); you can read an interview with him on Digital Web magazine (www.digital-web.com/articles/jeremy_keith_2)
... and the giveaway:
Andy Budd of Clearleft (clearleft.com) has donated a free ticket (worth 85 pounds sterling plus VAT) for dConstruct 2007 (2007.dconstruct.org) to a UXpod listener. To be in the draw, send an email to gerry at infodesign.com.au, with the subject line dConstruct, by June 28. Winner drawn on June 30, and notified by email. Ticket is non-transferrable, so please only enter if you or a colleague wish to attend.
Duration: 16:40
File size: 11.5MB
Usabilidad: Usability in Latin America - an Interview with Luis Arnal
13/05/2007
Luis Arnal speaks about usability in Latin America, about poverty as the mother of creativity (imagine usability testing at stop lights), and about the importance of observational research.
Luis is founder and president of In/situm (www.insitum.com).
You can read his article 'No pregunte, observe' online (PDF, in Spanish) (http://tinyurl.com/35bcch) .
Luis' 2003 article which I quote from during the interview is also online (PDF, in English) (http://tinyurl.com/2gmgr9).
Luis mentions Spencer Tunick's latest and largest nude shoot (18,000 people at the Zocalo plaza in Mexico city). Here is a short link to photos of the event on Flickr: http://tinyurl.com/2bvaoe
Thanks to Stuart Celarier of Portland Jugglers (www.portlandjugglers.com) for permission to use the image of the Toltec juggler as an illustration for this episode. Stuart is a software engineer who blogs at www.ferncrk.com/blog and points out that the ball over the juggler's head was not present in the original.
Duration: 17:30
File size: 8MB
Designing Smoking Cessation - an Interview with Peter Benda
17/04/2007
Peter Benda describes University of Melbourne's work on 'QuitCoach' - an online service to help people stop smoking. Peter works at Melbourne University's Department of Information Systems - www.dis.unimelb.edu.au
He talks about some of the unique aspects of this research - such as participatory design as therapy, and the 'confessional' needs of the quitting smoker.
The current version of QuitCoach is at www.thequitcoach.org.au
The National Health & Medical Research Council of Australia is at www.nhmrc.gov.au
The New Zealand STOMP (Stop smoking with mobile phones) trial is at www.ctru.auckland.ac.nz/research/stomp/index.html
Florian 'Floyd' Muller's paper is 'A table tennis game for three players' - http://tinyurl.com/3ylovs
... and the Northcote Social Club (Melbourne) is at http://northcotesocialclub.com/pages/giglist.php
Duration: 24:25
File size: 11.1MB
