We discuss life with nothing but an iPad, Dark Patterns of UX design and have an AWESOME interview with Jeffrey Zeldman!
Episode 3 Show Notes:
News:
* Ron's MacBook Pro crashed last week...
* Two-day turnaround from a Genius Bar appointment
* Two hours for a Time Machine restore, everything's back to normal
* With the exception of license issues, Adobe, Audible, etc...
* Always a good idea to have an online backup service, in case a physical backup fails
* Carbonite (http://www.carbonite.com/), Dropbox (http://www.dropbox.com/)
* Had to use an iPad as a primary computer
* Was able to get by with a wireless Bluetooth keyboard
* Used the Gmail webapp
* The interface is degraded for the iPad
* Doesn't allow you to create filters
* Safari web browser DOES NOT let you edit Google Docs
* Office (http://www.bytesquared.com/products/office/ipad/default.asp)2 (http://www.bytesquared.com/products/office/ipad/default.asp) HD (http://www.bytesquared.com/products/office/ipad/default.asp) - $15.00. Allows access to Google Docs
* Doesn't do live editing
* Arrow keys on the keyboard don't work in spreadsheets
* Integrates with other Apps, such as emailed Google Docs links
* LogMeIn (https://secure.logmein.com/products/ignition/iphone/) - ~ $30.00
* Allows remote access to desktop machines
* Not perfect, but still a viable solution
* Like working with one hand tied behind your back, but still manageable
* Will be easier with iOS 4 upgrade to the iPad in November
* Web browsing experience is similar to the iPhone
* With iOS 4, an iPhone can connect to a Bluetooth keyboard
* http://darkpatterns.org/ (http://darkpatterns.org/)
* By Harry Brignull (http://www.90percentofeverything.com/about/)
* Dedicated to User Interfaces designed to trick users to do things they otherwise wouldn't have done
* Good examples of what NOT to do with UX design
* Gmail Priority Inbox (http://mail.google.com/mail/help/priority-inbox.html)
* Uses Google's internal algorithms to identify email that's important to you
* Prioritizes it to the top of your inbox
* Can organize the different filters to prioritize emails differently
* You have to help "train" Gmail to learn what's important and what's not, by marking specific email's as priority or not as you read them
* UX Design "Catfight"
* Ryan Carson - Carsonified (http://carsonified.com/)
* At Deconstruct conference, tweets (http://twitter.com/ryancarson/status/22885968975) "A UX Professional is a bullcrap job title. It's just a way to overcharge naieve clients. All web designers should be UX pros."
* Andy Budd (http://clearleft.com/is/andybudd/) - ClearLeft (http://clearleft.com/)
* Replied "Why I Think Ryan Carson Doesn't Believe in UX Professionals and Why I Do." (http://www.andybudd.com/archives/2010/09/why_i_think_rya/)
* Every web designer SHOULD be a ux pro, but it doesn't always work that way. Especially as websites get more and mroe complex.
Interview - Jeffery Zeldman - AnEventApart Minneapolis 2010
* AnEventApart (http://www.aneventapart.com/) has been running since December 2005
* Originally had 150 attendees
* Have about 5 or 6 events a year
* All of the events each year are more or less the same, which really forces you to look at what's going on in Web Design that year
* Mobile Web Development
* Platform has severely matured lately
* Largely due to the iPhone
* Used to be more trouble than it was worth
* Had to use new languages, and adhere to strict graphics limitations
* Now with better mobile browsers, especially Webkit, and better resolutions, mobile development is much easier
* http://books.alistapart.com/ (http://books.alistapart.com/)
* HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith (http://books.alistapart.com/products/html5-for-web-designers)
* In the future: CSS3,
