Robert Hoekman, Jr. recently joined us for a Virtual Seminar on Interaction Design Frameworks, called, Web Anatomy: Interaction Design with Frameworks. The concept is a new one, and Robert and I are exploring and introducing the concept in new book due out shortly. The seminar (which is still available) was well-received, and we asked Robert back to help us answer some audience questions we did not have time to discuss during the seminar.

 

 SpoolCast: Interaction Design Frameworks Seminar Q&A Follow-up [21:43m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This week I wanted to share my interview with Brian Kalma, Director of User Experience and Web Strategy for darling of Internet retail, Zappos.com. In case you’ve somehow missed out on their meteoric rise to top of online retail, now conducting over a billion dollars in sales a year, you’re in for a treat.

 

 SpoolCast: Company Culture Meets Customer Experience with Brian Kalma [26:09m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Hagan Rivers returns to answer followup questions from her recent virutal seminar on Better Web App Navigation

 

 SpoolCast: Web App Navigation Q&A Followup [44:59m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This week Robert Hoekman, Jr joins us to discuss a new design process he’s been developing called “Design Frameworks.” Drawn loosely from the idea of the Frameworks that software developers use to more efficiently build software, design frameworks are an aid to assembling a design.

 

 SpoolCast: Introducing Interaction Design with Frameworks [28:46m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This week we are happy to share with you a followup podcast to our recent Virtual Seminar with Jeff Patton, one of the world’s foremost teachers and consultants on the agile development process. If you missed the seminar, don’t worry, if you’re interested in agile, there’s plenty here for you too.

 

 SpoolCast: Follow-up Podcast for An Agile UX Primer [48:07m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Planning documents for web app projects are often overlooked, despite their importance in the success of the product. James Box and Richard Rutter of Clearleft share their successful process of creating rough interactive prototypes for clients when creating web applications.

 

 SpoolCast: Roughing it with Interactive Prototypes [31:08m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

If you do it right, using Ajax techniques can improve accessibility. Surprised? You shouldn’t be. Ajax, like most techniques and technologies on the web are what you make of them.

That’s why I asked Derek Featherstone to speak with me about his latest work. Derek is a world renown expert on web accessibility. As principle of Further Ahead, he also helps clients deploy sites that exploit the latest techniques. These two statements do not need to be at odds with each other!

 

 SpoolCast: Ajax Aids Accessibility [22:49m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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 [...]

This week we chat with out friend Luke Wroblewski about Web Form Design. He discussed some of the most frequent questions he gets asked about form design considerations, since having penned a popular book on the subject. He offered a lot of helpful advice. Tune in to learn more.

 

 SpoolCast: Web Form Design with Luke W [36:05m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Dealing with real-life web app production isn’t as glamorous as some aspects of design in the digital realm, but it is full of challenges and can honestly make or break a project. There are ways of truly optimizing certain aspects of the production so that you can create a product with consistent quality at a faster pace. To find out how, I turned to Nathan Curtis.

 

 SpoolCast: Achieving Pattern and Component Reuse with Nathan Curtis [28:18m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download