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UIEtips: Interviews with 2 UX Experts  

You’re in the middle of your workout. Working up a good sweat, listening to music, zoning out, when it suddenly hits you (sort of like the V-8 commercials), you could have been listening to a Spoolcast interview with an accomplished UX expert. Why not workout your brain too?

Regularly, we produce podcast interviews from UX experts as follow ups to their recent UIE Virtual Seminar. There’s never enough time to answer all the excellent questions from the attendees. So we record Q&A sessions with the presenters and share it with everyone (no need to attend the webinar to follow the podcast).

In today’s UIEtips, I interview two fascinating people, Peter Morville and Steve Portigal. Peter presented one of our most popular webinars, Leveraging Search & Discovery Patterns for Great Online Experiences. In his follow-up podcast, Peter discusses how browsing doesn’t scale, as well as two popular patterns: best result first pattern and advanced search.

Listen to Peter Morville’s podcast.

Steve’s webinar, Deep Dive Interviewing Secrets: Making Sure You Don’t Leave Key Information Behind, told us what you must do for an effective interview process (hint, listening is involved). In this podcast, Steve and I discuss various aspects of the interviewing process and share some entertaining stories.

Listen to Steve Portigal’s podcast.

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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.

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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!

Archived Podcast

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?

Archived Podcast

UIEtips: The Best 15 Minutes of UX Advice  

On January 29, 2009, Robert Hoekman and I made history with our first Userability podcast, Exploring More Design Alternatives. We envisioned the podcasts to be the UX version of NPR’s popular radio show Car Talk. Anyone involved in the world of user experience could call in and ask their most pressing and perplexing questions. What [...]

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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 such apps.

Listen to a sample of Hagan’s Escaping Navigation Hell from the Web App Masters Tour in this episode of the SpoolCast.

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