Things may be a little out of sync around the blog, especially regarding our podcasts, for the next day or so.

Last week in part 1 of our series, I brought you 5 great podcasts covering Ajax and accessibility, patterns and components, web form design, web standards, and interactive prototyping. 
In part 2, we have new topics to muse over. Are you building out a web 2.0 strategy? Having trouble communicating and documenting the design process? How do you tie the [...]

Do you prototype your web app projects? Can Ajax techniques really improve accessibility? Do you wonder how components and patterns stack up to style guides and which is more efficient to use?
The answer to these questions, and many more, are in a series of podcast interviews I did with web app experts. Twitter has been abuzz over these interviews [...]

Over at From Chaos, Brian Hochhalter wrote a very thoughtful review of the interview I did with Dan Brown:

Growing documents
Brown begins by suggesting that designers start documents with a basic nucleus of necessary information then adding detail in layers. He also put forward the idea that ideal documentation should be able to give a bird’s [...]

Web-based application development is a field in flux. With new advances in interaction technologies, social media, and fast-paced design, it can be hard to keep up.
That’s why we’ve put together a series of podcasts with some of the experts in the field: Dan Brown, Molly Holzshlag, Steve Mulder, Riccardo LaRosa, and Nathan Curtis. In [...]

To wrap up this year, we’re revisting some of our best articles and podcast from 2008.
Out of the 29 articles that we published this year, we’ve decided on five that we think had the most impact and really got people thinking. Even if some readers didn’t agree with our conclusions, it started a discussion [...]

Folks, it’s just about that time… if it’s fall in New England, it must be the User Interface Conference. We are now in our thirteenth year of bringing together all walks of user experience and usability folks together from around the world.
This year, we thought we give our attendees a special UI13 advice podcast. The [...]

From a user experience professional perspective, the current economy has a weird convergence happening:

Because of the economic downturn (due to the rising fuel costs and mortgage market crisis), some companies are laying off and some are disappearing outright.
Because executives understand the competitive value of creating great experiences, user experience professionals are in great demand.

This convergence [...]

One of the most common 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 [...]

Are you looking for our weekly podcast? Thanks to next week’s User Interface 12 Conference, we’re extra busy around the office, so we’ve put the podcast series on temporary hiatus for these two weeks. If you’re subscribed you won’t miss a beat, when the next one comes out, it’ll magically arrive on your computer.
If you [...]