Big Web Show Roundup
June 21, 2010
The Big Web Show is a weekly video podcast on Everything Web That Matters, co-hosted by 5×5 network founder Dan Benjamin and Happy Cog founder and executive creative director Jeffrey Zeldman. Here’s a round-up of recent shows:
In Episode 2: HTML5, Dan and Jeffrey talk with Jeremy Keith, designer, writer, featured An Event Apart speaker, and author of HTML5 for Web Designers. They discuss the goals and inspiration behind the book, as well as what HTML5 means for both web creators and those who consume the web, covering topics that range from structure to accessibility and implementation.
Melissa Pierce’s new film, “Life in Perpetual Beta,” asks the question, “is the planned life worth living?” and sketches an answer via interviews with the likes of Baratunde Thuston, Irina Slutsky, and Twitter’s Biz Stone. In Episode 3: Re-invent Yourself, Dan and Jeffrey interview Melissa about the unplanned life, Facebook privacy, and using the internet to re-invent yourself.
In Episode 4: Content Strategy, Dan and Jeffrey get down to cases with Kristina Halvorson, CEO, Brain Traffic and author, Content Strategy for the Web (New Riders, 2010), and Erin Kissane, content strategist with Happy Cog, and author of Incisive.nu.
In Episode 5: Web Education, Dan and Jeffrey talk with special guest Liz Danzico, author of Bobulate, and chairperson of the MFA in Interaction Design program at New York’s School of Visual Arts. They discuss web and interaction design education, user experience design, how to structure a program and teach a class, acquiring and editing content, and much more.
In Episode 6: Mobile First, Dan and Jeffrey chat with leading interaction designer Luke Wroblewski about designing for the mobile space, and learn why the mobile experience for a web application or site should be designed before the PC version.
In Episode 7: Usability Testing, Dan and Jeffrey talk with larger-than-life user experience design guru Jared Spool about usability testing in the real world. Jared is the founder of User Interface Engineering, the largest usability research organization of its kind in the world. He’s been working in the field of usability and design since 1978, before the term “usability” was ever associated with computers.
And in Episode 8: User Experience Design, Dan and Jeffrey talk with Happy Cog’s own Whitney Hess about social networking, getting clients, and user experience design—from research to wireframes to testing and beyond.