One of the most questions we get in regard to our popular podcasts is,
“What’s that catchy intro music?”
Today, I thought I’d share.
SpoolCast: Mocean Worker - Right Now
SpoolCast Crew: Cal Tjader - Soul Sauce
Josh and Jared Show: Medeski Martin & Wood - End of the World Party
Usability Tools Podcasts: Medeski Martin & Wood - Mami Gato
All [...]

Every year, I ask each of my graduate students to interview four of their friends, finding what brands they love and what brands they really despise and the reasons for their feelings. These students, being engineers, all go into the experiment thinking that people will either love or hate the products made by the brands. [...]

In this week’s SpoolCast I had a chance to speak about Design Patterns and Anti-Patterns with Bill Scott. Bill is the Director UI Engineering at Netflix, a position he took after working several years for Yahoo as an Ajax Evangelist. At Yahoo! Bill led engineering on the Yahoo! Teachers project and curated the public Yahoo! Design Pattern Library.

 

 SpoolCast: An Interview with Bill Scott [38:48m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

My late spring / early summer isn’t as busy as the first 4 months of this year, but I’m still getting out and about. Here’s where we can meet up:
May 2008
May 5-6, Chicago
Web Design World/Chicago
Web 2.0: The Power Behind the Hype - 5/5 10:15-11:15am
Enhancing Experiences with AJAX, RIAs, and Browser-Side Intelligence - 5/6 2:00-4:15pm
Deconstructing… You! [...]

On April 12, I gave the keynote at the IA Summit. It was my second time keynoting this event and a real honor for me. The audience was great and it lead to some very interesting discussion, both at the conference and on blogs and discussion lists everywhere.
I’ve posted the slides above and have synched [...]

We’re looking for someone special and I’m hoping you know this person. We’re growing our very successful Virtual Seminar program which currently delivers an information packed online webinar to 1,000-2,500 designers and user experience professionals every month.
We need someone who has the insight and right touch to take this program and make it sing. This [...]

In February we held one of our most popular Virtual Seminars ever, Mental Models: Getting Into Your Customer’s Head, presented by Indi Young. We had a number of compelling questions left over from the seminar, and we wanted Indi to have a chance to answer them.

 

 SpoolCast: Reviewing Mental Models with Indi Young [42:49m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This spring, our good friends, Steve Krug and Lou Rosenfeld, will offer a two-day workshop series on the topics of discount usability testing and site search analytics. If you haven’t had a chance to hear these two experts share their knowledge, I highly suggest you attend.
Cities, Dates, and Program Details
April 3 in Boston, May 16 [...]

In last week’s UIEtips email newsletter, I shared three challenges we’ve seen users encounter in our usability tests. These are challenges to look out for when users interact with your applications. In this week’s newsletter, I continue my commentary by discussing two more important challenges.
You can read my article here.
At UIE, a big [...]

Want to know what relationship behind magical illusions, practiced by professional magicians, and experience design, practiced by UX designers, really is?
That’s the subject of a presentation I’m giving twice over the next week. The first time is tonight, at Yahoo!’s Sunnyvale offices, and open the public. The second time is at South by Southwest Interactive [...]