The Big Web Show

Dan and Jeffrey chat with leading interaction designer "Luke Wroblewski":http://lukew.com 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. Luke Wroblewski is an internationally recognized digital product design leader who has designed or contributed to software used by more than 700 million people worldwide. He is the author of "Web Form Design":http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/webforms/ and "Functioning Form":http://www.lukew.com/ff/, and an extremely popular "speaker":http://www.lukew.com/presos/ at leading web design conferences. After long stints as Chief Design Architect at Yahoo! and Lead User Interface Designer of eBay Inc.'s platform team, he is currently Chief Design Officer and co-founder of a stealth start-up. Links for this episode: LukeW | Touch Gesture Reference Guide LukeW Ideation Design | Digital Product Strategy & Design HP CEO: 'We didn't buy Palm to be in the smartphone business' | PreCentral.net Facebook iPhone Dev Quits Project Over Apple Tyranny Readability - An Arc90 Lab Experiment Instapaper GoDaddy Mobile - Domain Search, Go Daddy Commercials Mobile First Helps with Big Issues

Dan and Jeffrey talk with special guest Liz Danzico ("@bobulate":http://twitter.com/bobulate), author of "Bobulate":http://bobulate.com, columnist for Interactions Magazine, former editor of Boxes and Arrows, former director of experience strategy for AIGA, former IA director at Barnes & Noble, and chairperson of the "MFA in Interaction Design program":http://interactiondesign.sva.edu/ 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.

Dan and Jeffrey talk in-depth about content strategy on the web 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.

Melissa Pierce’s film, "Life in Perpetual Beta":http://lifeinperpetualbeta.com/ asks the question, "is the planned life worth living?" and sketches an answer via interviews with the likes of Baratunde Thuston, Irina Slutsky, and Biz Stone. Watch us turn the tables on the interviewer (now our interviewee) to find out how a homemaker with no filmmaking experience became the darling of the Chicago Independent Film Festival.

Dan and Jeffrey talk with "Jeremy Keith":http://adactio.com, designer, writer, speaker, and author of "HTML5 for Web Designers":http://books.alistapart.com, a new book coming out in June of 2010. 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.

Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin grill Ethan Dunham of "Fontspring":http://www.fontspring.com/ and "Font Squirrel":http://fontsquirrel.com and "Jeffrey Veen":http://veen.com of "Typekit":http://typekit.com (and other sites, too numerous to name) about one of your favorite subjects, "real fonts on your website" in this, our inaugural episode.