600px Web Design Podcast

We welcome our first backend developers to 600px with our guests Aaron Benzick and Scott Foster. They created a mobile game called Munzee in 2011 that combined geocaching and scavenger hunting, and we talk with them about how they approached design throughout the build process.

On this week's episode, we sit down with Interactive Art Director Bryan Schmidt for our second look at the An Event Apart Boston conference. Bryan shares his thoughts on Derek Featherstone's talk on inclusive design, and how important it is to get users with disabilities and varying perspectives involved throughout the creative process.

Anzen: Verb. 安全 (literary) to keep in good repair; to maintain; to save from damage; to preserve. This week Derek Odell, Product Developer at Lifeblue, sits down with us to chat about this concept and what it means for company culture in tech, from workplace safety to how we operate our teams and build products.

There are many different discplines of design, but what do they have in common? This week we sit down with JD Busch, a Solution Designer at Lifeblue who is now a master of digital design, but he didn't start his career that way. From print to environmental design, JD shares his career lessons--everything from being fired, to what makes for good digital design.

An Event Apart is the leading web design/front-end conference for mobile/UX/product designers & developers, hosting in major cities around the US. In May some of our Lifeblue team members went to Boston to soak up some knowledge, and they're back to share it with us. Join us as we catch up with Andrew Higdon and Zaq Dayton on inclusive motion and the future of animation design, as well as designing for personas and the unintended consequences of targeted advertising.

Accessibility in web design and development has historically been a luxury, but this perpsective has shifted as the landscape becomes increasingly litigious. As of 2012, over 18% of Americans identified as having a disability, according to the Census Bureau. From color ratios to alt text, we sit down with Nicole Oakes, Front End Developer at Lifeblue, to talk about the ins and outs of how to approach a project with a diverse range of end-users in mind, and hopefully how to avoid having your company sued because you didn't think it mattered.

Localization and translation are both incredibly important in the realm of web design and the digitally connected world we live in today. While we'd like to think it's as easy as implementing a "translate" button, localization goes beyond just 1:1 word translation and helps customize design to different audiences where the wrong color or word can tank an entire design or campaign. While this enormous task poses great challenges for both businesses big and small, there are ways to overcome them without "just using Google translate." In this episode, we sit down with Zaq Dayton, Interactive Art Director at Lifeblue, to explore these trends and how to tackle them.

Welcome to 600px, a podcast that goes below the fold of the world wide web to see how professionals in the industry design and build better digital experiences for everyone. Join co-hosts Travis Self and Caitlin Studley to talk all things tech--from the idea of “workplace safety” in the digital world (you can’t see it, but we just put workplace safety in air quotes), to localization in design, to using our tech powers for good and building trust with technology, we’ll sit down with a range of professionals to cover industry topics that matter when it comes to making a better digital experience for everyone. We hope you'll join us!