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SpoolCast: Q&A Follow-Up from Galleries Seminar  

SpoolCast: Q&A Follow-Up from Galleries Seminar
Recorded: August 18th, 2008
Brian Christiansen, UIE Podcast Producer
Duration: 26m | File size: 15 MB
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Brian Christiansen and I recorded a special episode comprised entirely of questions from our customers. On August 14, we held the UIE Virtual Seminar - Galleries: The Hardest Working Pages on Your Site. During the seminar, we received far more questions than time would allow answering. As is tradition, we put together this follow-up podcast to answer even more of your excellent questions.

In this episode, we discussed:

  • A review of Gallery pages and their connection to Scent
  • How Gallery Pages are special, and a comparison to a Department page
  • The role of Galleries in Intranet environments
  • We dive into the use of “learn more” links with a little more depth
  • Our observations about how users really “browse” the web
  • Advice on coping with large numbers of links on Gallery pages, and what links belong there
  • A preview of September’s Virtual Seminar on Critiquing

If you missed our live seminar, a recording of Galleries: The Hardest Working Pages on Your Site is available for viewing.

Still have questions or comments about gallery pages? Ask them in the comments below!

(Producer’s note: My apologies to the Discount Tire folks for calling you “Direct Tire” once in the episode. I got it right the second time, though!)

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That is the subject matter for this week’s show, which features a compelling conversation with Kim Goodwin. Kim is the VP of Design and General Manager at Cooper, one of the world’s premier design consultancies, in San Francisco.

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SpoolCast: Creating a Culture of Innovation with Scott Berkun  

Innovation has become such a buzzword, it’s nearly meaningless. But that doesn’t mean innovation itself is dead. In this week’s show, we sat down with Scott Berkun, the dynamic speaker and author of “The Myths of Innovation.“

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SpoolCast: UX in an Agile Environment with Jeff Patton  

The Agile development process is about breaking things into small pieces and acting on each piece really quickly. Yet, traditional user experience practices aren’t used to working fast. How do we adjust our practices to survive in a fast-paced agile process?

That’s the question we posted to Jeff Patton, the noted independent UX/Agile consultant and speaker, who joined me on this week’s show.

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SpoolCast: Visual Design Misconceptions with Luke Wroblewski  

“Can you make the logo bigger?” Heard that one before? So have we. This week, we talk with Yahoo!’s Luke Wroblewski, an expert on visual design on the web, about the misconceptions that about around this topic!

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SpoolCast: Followup Q&A from the Scent of a Web Page  

Brian Christiansen and I recorded a special episode comprised entirely of questions from our customers. On July 17, we held the UIE Virtual Seminar: The Scent of a Web Page—The Five Types of Navigation Pages. During the seminar, we received far more questions than time would allow answering. As is tradition, we put together this follow-up podcast to answer even more of your excellent questions.

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