IA Summit 2008, Day 1
Podcasts from April 12
by Chris Baum and Jeff Parks on 2008/04/25 | [8 Comments]
The IA Summit was held in Miami, FL from April 10-14. Boxes and Arrows captured many of the main conference sessions (see schedule) starting on April 12.
Day 1, April 12 | Day 2, April 13 | Day 3, April 14
Podcasts will appear on this page as we produce them from the audio files so please check back regularly or subscribe to the iTunes feed below.
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Journey to the Center of Design – Jared Spool
There’s a growing sentiment that spending limited resources on user research takes away from essential design activities. Is it time for user- centered design to evolve into something else? Or is there something else happening in our world of experience design that makes UCD obsolete? Jared Spool gives and entertaining and enlightening key note address at the 2008 IA Summit.(published 05/01/08)(published 04/25/08)
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See the slidecastTagging: Five Emerging Trends – Gene Smith
Tagging has been the subject of much discussion over the last several years. But recent trends show that tagging is evolving quickly, and that today’s conventional wisdom might not be accurate for long. nForms’ Gene Smith explores five counterintuitive tagging trends that provide a glimpse into the next generation of user-generated classification.(published 05/01/08)
DownloadThe Business of Experience: The Experience Impact Framework – Jess McMullin
nForm’s Jess McMullin outlines three dimensions of The Experience Impact Framework including: the elements of business, the fundamentals of user experience practice and the kinds of impact we can have.(published 05/02/08)
DownloadThe Long Wow – Brandon Schauer
Brandon Schauer lays out an experience centric approach to fostering and creating loyalty by systematically impressing your customers again and again.(published 05/05/08)
DownloadContent Page Design Best Practices – Luke Wroblewski
Luke Wroblewski discusses a set of best practices for Web content page design that focuses on appropriate presentation of content, context, and calls to action. (published 05/05/08)
DownloadBlind Ambition: How the Accessibility Movement Overlooks Sensory Experiences – Claude Steinberg
In this presentation Claude Steinberg argues that you’ll have a better grasp of user experience when you can translate it into something even a blind person would recognize. (published 05/05/08)
DownloadInspiration from the Edge: New Patterns for Interaction Design – Stephen Anderson
To increase our own field of vision, Stephen Anderson takes a macro view of interface design, focusing on alternative UIs – and emphasizing patterns that can be leveraged in a business context.(published 05/05/08)
DownloadHow to be a User Experience Team of One – Leah Buley
Leah teaches techniques that any individual can use to generate and refine ideas, outlining flexible, simple activities that can be used quickly, wherever they’re needed.(published 05/06/08)
Download See the slidecastThanks to Jeff Parks, Jackie Wu, and Kit Seeborg of the B&A/V Podcast team for working their hearts out, as well as ASIS&T and the IA Summit organizers for their support.
More big thanks to Mark Blevis and Bob Goyetche for their assistance while at the Summit; taking phone calls and FTP files from Miami to Ottawa and back again, and lessons in Audacity for decreasing the bit rates, stereo sound, etc.
Readers' Comments (8)
Joost Verweij
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Posted 2008/05/05 @ 00:53AM with
Good story, but I’d like to report a technical problem in firefox: the audio plays much too fast. It’s allright in Internet Explorer though.
Kind regards,
Joost
Jeff Parks
40 Reputation points
Posted 2008/05/05 @ 19:35PM with
Hey Joost,
I’m publishing and testing in Fire Fox and have had no issues. I’ve had to record the longer shows like Jared’s and panel discussions at a lower bit rate to keep the file sizes to a reasonable level.
For the short term, you can subscribe to this and all Podcasts for Boxes and Arrows in iTunes. Simply click on the iTunes link at the top of every page. Alternatively, you can download only the shows you want and burn them to a CD or drop them into the MP3 player of your choice.
Apologies for your troubles with the audio in the browser. If you need to discuss this issue in more detail, drop me a note at jefferyparks@gmail.com and I’d be happy to discuss.
Cheers,
Jeff
C L
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Posted 2008/05/07 @ 07:20AM with
Are there notes available for any of the presentations?
Chris Baum
398 Reputation points
Posted 2008/05/07 @ 23:09PM with
If you visit the IA Summit conference program, some of the presentaitons
are available for download (possibly with notes) or available on slideshare.
http://www.iasummit.org/2008/conference.html
sonali sridhar
-1 Reputation points
Posted 2008/05/09 @ 13:47PM with
I wish you guys had made video podcasts – it would have been quite helpful watching what they were referring to…
Jon Hadden
1 Reputation points
Posted 2008/05/10 @ 03:16AM with
Hearing the podcasts is not only away to re-live the IA Summit, but also a way to share the knowledge spread to fellow colleagues who were unable to attend. Seeing all the slideshare presentations and following along with the podcasts was invaluable to my team.
I love it guys. Keep up the great work Jeff, Chris and team!
Cheers,
Jon
Russ Unger
5 Reputation points
Posted 2008/05/12 @ 07:09AM with
Go to www.whitneyhess.com/blog for some of the best notes from the conference.
Then follow her on twitter.
—Russ
rhonda gilligan
0 Reputation points
Posted 2008/05/14 @ 19:51PM with
I would have expected IAs to do a better job including text links in their stories. Your blurb encouraging me to “check out the presentations from” should be a link to that podcast. When I find “podcasts” in your left nav and click to the page, you organize the individual podcasts by not date even though the sort criteria is labeled “date”, not “day of conference”. Finally, all the descriptions for each day’s casts are the same, so I have no content clue as to what the topics discussed that day might have been in order to determine which ones might be of interest to me. So, I guess in order to “check out the presentation from April 12” I have to first find the link in the nav for podcasts, then figure out which day of the conference (1,2,3, or 4) the 12th was, then take a shot that it might contain something of value or interest to me. Not exactly what would pass muster on my team for usability or content strategy.