Summary: Episode 57 of UX Podcast is a link show. James and Per discuss three articles found during their digital travels. We start off with some satire and discuss a humorous article about top carousels, a conversation that evolves into a reflective discussion about culture and native languages. The middle article focuses on navigation design patterns for responsive sites and apps - specifically the "left navigation fly out". We finish off with a look at a post by Luke Wroblewski about how you should avoid using a spinner to indicate when something is happening or loading. (Listening time: 34 minutes) https://soundcloud.com/uxpodcast/57-james-per-avoid-spinning https://twitter.com/uxpodcast/status/386011590392578048 References: Article 1: Carousel-based web design Duty calls (xkcd cartoon) Article 2: Stop placing the menu button in the wrong corner James & Per set design trends (Episode 33, hamburger menu discussion) Article 3: Mobile design details: Avoid the spinner Bayblade photo credit: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Tom Rafferty Transcript: Per: Hello and welcome to UX Podcast. You’re listening to me Per Axbom. James: And me James Royal-Lawson. Per: And we’re sitting in our favourite place at the Clarion Sign Hotel. James: Our favourite place? Per: Favourite place in town for recording. James: You’re right. Per: I think right now. Yeah. James: And they actually just tweeted to us. Per: Yes, it’s fantastic. We say we were going to record here and they tweeted us and said good luck. James: Yeah. See, some people have got their eyes peeled for customer interaction. Per: They’re pretty good. James: And today is going to be … Per: A link show. View the full transcript James: A link show - to dive straight into what we’re going to do today. We haven’t had a link show for a little while because we’ve had Conversion Jam and a few interviews and things. It felt like I want to talk about some of the great content that people produce out there. Per: We want to hear some of our own voices more as well. James: Oh, your ego Per. We were just discussing. We got three articles coming for you and it’s a bit of a design pattern thing to these three. We were just trying to decide a little bit on running order - because we do actually plan a little bit before these shows. I was bringing up the fact – the article that we are going to talk about first … Per: Is now ... James: Yeah, it’s a little bit humorous and Per suggested, it was good idea to finish on a humorous note. Per: Peak end theory. James: Yeah. Per: Yeah. James: And I said, “Well, maybe it’s good to begin with a humorous one.” Are we trying to keep listeners to the next show or are we trying to keep them to listen to this show? So if we make you all laugh now at the beginning, then maybe you’re more likely to listen to the whole show and if you laugh at the end, you will maybe like listen to us next time. Per: Right. So if you seriously believe that we’re going to lose or gain listeners based on the running order of our links in this show, then give us a heads up. James: I like to think that we have some content strategy for this. So the first article. Per: The first article. [Music] James: Which touches on one of my favourite pet subjects, carousels, banners, sliding banners on the webpages which all of you who listen to the show regularly will know that we’ve talked about a few times and you will probably also know what we think about them, which is not very much. An article – I think you actually brought this one to my attention. Per: Yeah, because I thought of you straight away when I saw it, of course. James: It’s excellent. It’s actually a satire piece. It’s humour. It’s written to take the mickey out of carousels and the way in which we end up having carousels on websites. Per: Right. It’s written by a guy called Stephen Hay from California but he lives in the Netherlands actually and well,
