Einstein & Sock Monkey

In this episode we wonder about IE10, what's really the top mobile OS, and have an interview with Kevin Hoffman (@kevinmhoffman), one of the Experience Directors for Happy Cog. He tells gives us some insights into one of the country's best known web design firms, and talks about how to make meetings NOT suck.

We're BACK!!

After a brief hiatus, we're back with a great mobile-centric episode of the podcast. Featuring a great interview with Josh Clark (@globalmoxie), author of "Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps"

Special guest Nick Armstrong joins us to talk about everything from Skittles porn to wallets. Oh, and some web design stuff as well.

World Usability Day, why the new Blackberry OS matters to you, and Ron drones on and on (his words!) about Responsive Web Design. Nick Armstrong also gives us a great overview of Feedburner in his Social Media Minute, and Ron picks a surprising book for our Audible recommendation (hint: it's not about sock monkeys). Oh - and we pick user experience book for our next Book Club book!

On this episode we talk to the fabulous Jeremy Keith, author of HTML5 For Web Designers. Awesome book, awesome guy, awesome interview. We also have 2 additional guests: John Wolters (Usability Expert & Technical Communicator) from Aachen, Germany, and Lindsey Ogden (Designer & Drupalista) from Fort Collins, Colorado.

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,

On this episode we discuss "The Web Is Dead", learn about Disqus.com, and more! We also had an AWESOME special guest - John (Jochen) Wolters, all the way from Aachen, Germany. He was in town for a few weeks, so we grabbed him for the podcast and his input was stellar. Thanks so much to John! Can't wait for next time!!

In this week's episode, we share some web news, have an interview with UX Designer Whitney Hess, learn about Twitter custom search RSS feeds, and more!