UX Podcast

James and Per bring you episode 32 of UX Podcast from a bar in Stockholm. We're are joined by Jonas Söderström, author of Jävla skitsystem (Stupid bloody system) and "the Swede that comes closest to the title of web usability guru". We talk about poorly designed digital systems and the work related stress this causes. Where did it all go wrong? How do we fix it? Can we fix it? (Listening time: 28 minutes) References: Jävla skitsystem (English page) Stupid bloody system (Presentation on slideshare) The best interface is no interface Harvest and Tick time reporting systems Ubiquitous computing and calm technology

In episode 31 of UX Podcast James and Per are joined by Derek Featherstone from Simply Accessible to talk about infographics and how we can make them more accessible. We say "everything that needs to be said" and cover some of the challenges, types of accessibility problems, downsides of making infographics accessible, and share some practical tips. uxpodcast-episode-031-feathering-infographics.mp3 Listen on Posterous (Listening time: 36 minutes) References: Per's "excluding" infographic - Digitalt utanförskap i Sverige 2012 Chris Throup's Accessible infographics blog post WebAIM's Web Accessibility for Designers infographic Another accessible infographics example Accessible Infographics Community Group Putting Accessibility into Infographics Scalable vector graphics Simply Accessible's tips and tricks newsletter Transcript: James: Hello. Per: Were you going to do it? James: Go ahead. Go just start it. I was going to do it for once. Go on. Per: No. You go ahead. James: No. You’ve upset me now. Per: What episode are we on, James? James: Thirty-one. Per: Excellent. We had to check just before. James: Welcome. It’s a cold Monday afternoon here in Stockholm. Per: It is really cold in your studio. James: I know. Mondays are always the coldest day because it cools down over the weekend. I did try and warm it up. It’s raining outside and it’s a little bit windy and they said that snow is on the way. Per: Oh, really? James: It could be. It’s coming from the south but it will be awful if it does come because it’s still warm. Per: I never check the weather service. I wonder why not. James: You’re not English enough. Per: No. James: Or Swedish enough. Per: Well, I’m not Swedish enough either. James: No, exactly. Yeah. But today we’re going to be talking about infographics. Per: Yeah. James: And well one of the reasons why we’re going to be talking about it is because you have produced a couple of infographics recently Per. Per: Yeah. One for Brian Clifton. James: Who we’ve also interviewed here in UX Podcast. Per: That’s true. And also one for Digidel which is an abbreviation for Digital Delaktighet which basically means digital participation. James: Yeah. Per: So … James: That kind of got me – I got my teeth into Per earlier last week about the fact that he produced an infographic about the amount of people outside of the internet, excluded from the internet that in itself excluded people because it was a flat graphic. Per: Yeah. James: So for once we almost disagreed on something. Per: We almost disagreed. James: This we need to talk about. Per: Yeah. James: So what we’ve done is we’ve decided to give it an accessibility angle and we’re going to give Derek Featherstone a call who is an accessibility guy, a really good accessibility guy. We met him at UX Lx in Portugal. It has been this year I chatted to him and his talk on Friday was one of my favorite ones, from the Friday which you can go back and look at our notes and our podcast about that. I also took part in his workshop which is really good. Per: Yeah. Well he’s basically an authority on accessibility and we really like his stuff and what he produces and what he talks about and he has been doing this for a lot of years. James: He kindly said yes to be interviewed today. Per: Yeah. Let’s call on him. James: Here you go. Cue jingle. [Music] Derek: Hello there. Per: Hello Derek. Let’s give you a brief background about why we wanted to talk to you. Derek: Sure. Per: So I’ve been an advocate of accessibility for a lot of years. I worked in the usability arena for like, I don’t know, 15 years now maybe and recently I produced like two infographics and James is giving me a hard time about infographics. We both know that they’re not very accessible. Derek: Right. Per: At the same time, they’re incredible at getting people to share them an

In episode 31 of UX Podcast James and Per are joined by Derek Featherstone from Simply Accessible to talk about infographics and how we can make them more accessible. We say "everything that needs to be said" and cover some of the challenges, types of accessibility problems, downsides of making infographics accessible, and share some practical tips. (Listening time: 36 minutes) References: Per's "excluding" infographic - Digitalt utanförskap i Sverige 2012 Chris Throup's Accessible infographics blog post WebAIM's Web Accessibility for Designers infographic Another accessible infographics example Accessible Infographics Community Group Putting Accessibility into Infographics Scalable vector graphics Simply Accessible's tips and tricks newsletter Transcript: James: Hello. Per: Were you going to do it? James: Go ahead. Go just start it. I was going to do it for once. Go on. Per: No. You go ahead. James: No. You’ve upset me now. Per: What episode are we on, James? James: Thirty-one. Per: Excellent. We had to check just before. James: Welcome. It’s a cold Monday afternoon here in Stockholm. Per: It is really cold in your studio. James: I know. Mondays are always the coldest day because it cools down over the weekend. I did try and warm it up. It’s raining outside and it’s a little bit windy and they said that snow is on the way. Per: Oh, really? James: It could be. It’s coming from the south but it will be awful if it does come because it’s still warm. Per: I never check the weather service. I wonder why not. James: You’re not English enough. Per: No. James: Or Swedish enough. Per: Well, I’m not Swedish enough either. James: No, exactly. Yeah. But today we’re going to be talking about infographics. Per: Yeah. James: And well one of the reasons why we’re going to be talking about it is because you have produced a couple of infographics recently Per. Per: Yeah. One for Brian Clifton. James: Who we’ve also interviewed here in UX Podcast. Per: That’s true. And also one for Digidel which is an abbreviation for Digital Delaktighet which basically means digital participation. James: Yeah. Per: So … James: That kind of got me – I got my teeth into Per earlier last week about the fact that he produced an infographic about the amount of people outside of the internet, excluded from the internet that in itself excluded people because it was a flat graphic. Per: Yeah. James: So for once we almost disagreed on something. Per: We almost disagreed. James: This we need to talk about. Per: Yeah. James: So what we’ve done is we’ve decided to give it an accessibility angle and we’re going to give Derek Featherstone a call who is an accessibility guy, a really good accessibility guy. We met him at UX Lx in Portugal. It has been this year I chatted to him and his talk on Friday was one of my favorite ones, from the Friday which you can go back and look at our notes and our podcast about that. I also took part in his workshop which is really good. Per: Yeah. Well he’s basically an authority on accessibility and we really like his stuff and what he produces and what he talks about and he has been doing this for a lot of years. James: He kindly said yes to be interviewed today. Per: Yeah. Let’s call on him. James: Here you go. Cue jingle. [Music] Derek: Hello there. Per: Hello Derek. Let’s give you a brief background about why we wanted to talk to you. Derek: Sure. Per: So I’ve been an advocate of accessibility for a lot of years. I worked in the usability arena for like, I don’t know, 15 years now maybe and recently I produced like two infographics and James is giving me a hard time about infographics. We both know that they’re not very accessible. Derek: Right. Per: At the same time, they’re incredible at getting people to share them and getting tweets and getting people’s attention basically.

A linkshow - In episode 30 of UXPodcast James Royal-Lawson and Per Axbom have a discussion based around two recent articles that they've found during their digital travels. This show's topics are (roughly)... Detecting the iPad Mini Practical issues with cloud services uxpodcast-episode-030-linkshow.mp3 Listen on Posterous References: Mission: Impossible – iPad mini detection for HTML5 Two things about the iPad mini Posterous Twitter Buys Posterous (So You’d Better Move Your Content To Tumblr ASAP) Soundcloud Is Facebook “broken on purpose” to sell promoted posts? Permalink | Leave a comment  »

A linkshow - In episode 30 of UXPodcast James Royal-Lawson and Per Axbom have a discussion based around two recent articles that they've found during their digital travels. This show's topics are (roughly)... Detecting the iPad Mini Practical issues with cloud services (Listening time: 30 minutes) References: Mission: Impossible – iPad mini detection for HTML5 Two things about the iPad mini Posterous Twitter Buys Posterous (So You’d Better Move Your Content To Tumblr ASAP) Soundcloud Is Facebook “broken on purpose” to sell promoted posts?

This episode comes "live" from Conversion Jam 2 in Stockholm Sweden. A conference about conversion optimisation. In this episode we have a chat with Mårten Angner who held a presentation about the (lack of) effectiveness of top carousels (or "sliding banners")  uxpodcast-episode-029-ride-the-top-carousel.mp3 Listen on Posterous (Listening time 15 minutes) References: Will front page carousels improve your conversion rate? Mårten's presentation on Prezi Other UX Podcast episodes from Conversion Jam 2: Show 1 - Craig Sullivan, optimisation Show 2 - Brian Clifton, measure Show 3 - Annelie Näs, responsive Show 4 - Mårten Angner, top carousels Permalink | Leave a comment  »

This episode comes "live" from Conversion Jam 2 in Stockholm Sweden. A conference about conversion optimisation. In this episode we have a chat with Annelie Näs who worked with Swedish mobile operator Halebop to create their responsive e-commerce site. uxpodcast-episode-028-make-responsive-jam.mp3 Listen on Posterous (Listening time 10 minutes) References: Halebop Annelies presentation on slideshare Other UX Podcast episodes from Conversion Jam 2: Show 1 - Craig Sullivan, optimisation Show 2 - Brian Clifton, measure Show 3 - Annelie Näs, responsive Show 4 - Mårten Angner, top carousels Permalink | Leave a comment  »

This episode comes "live" from Conversion Jam 2 in Stockholm Sweden. A conference about conversion optimisation. In this episode we have a chat with Brian Clifton, author of Avanced Web Metrics one of the presenters this morning with a talked called "What the hell should we use all this web data for?"  uxpodcast-episode-027-measure-jam.mp3 Listen on Posterous (Listening time: 12 minutes) Other UX Podcast episodes from Conversion Jam 2: Show 1 - Craig Sullivan, optimisation Show 2 - Brian Clifton, measure Show 3 - Annelie Näs, responsive Show 4 - Mårten Angner, top carousels   Permalink | Leave a comment  »

This episode comes "live" from Conversion Jam 2 in Stockholm Sweden. A conference about conversion optimisation. We share our expectations for the day and have a chat with the first keynote speaker of the day, Craig Sullivan an optimisation rock-star (and DJ). We previously chatted with Craig in Episode 11 of UX Podcast about mobile optmisation. uxpodcast-episode-026-make-jam.mp3 Listen on Posterous (Listening time: 8 minutes) References: Conversion Jam 2 Craig Sullivan on Slideshare Other UX Podcast episodes from Conversion Jam 2: Show 1 - Craig Sullivan, optimisation Show 2 - Brian Clifton, measure Show 3 - Annelie Näs, responsive Show 4 - Mårten Angner, top carousels   Permalink | Leave a comment  »

This episode comes "live" from Conversion Jam 2 in Stockholm Sweden. A conference about conversion optimisation. In this episode we have a chat with Mårten Angner who held a presentation about the (lack of) effectiveness of top carousels (or "sliding banners") (Listening time 16 minutes) References: Will front page carousels improve your conversion rate? Mårten's presentation on Prezi Other UX Podcast episodes from Conversion Jam 2: Show 1 - Craig Sullivan, optimisation Show 2 - Brian Clifton, measure Show 3 - Annelie Näs, responsive Show 4 - Mårten Angner, top carousels

This episode comes "live" from Conversion Jam 2 in Stockholm Sweden. A conference about conversion optimisation. In this episode we have a chat with Annelie Näs who worked with Swedish mobile operator Halebop to create their responsive e-commerce site. (Listening time 10 minutes) References: Halebop Annelies presentation on slideshare Other UX Podcast episodes from Conversion Jam 2: Show 1 - Craig Sullivan, optimisation Show 2 - Brian Clifton, measure Show 3 - Annelie Näs, responsive Show 4 - Mårten Angner, top carousels

This episode comes "live" from Conversion Jam 2 in Stockholm Sweden. A conference about conversion optimisation. In this episode we have a chat with Brian Clifton, author of Avanced Web Metrics one of the presenters this morning with a talked called "What the hell should we use all this web data for?" (Listening time: 12 minutes) Other UX Podcast episodes from Conversion Jam 2: Show 1 - Craig Sullivan, optimisation Show 2 - Brian Clifton, measure Show 3 - Annelie Näs, responsive Show 4 - Mårten Angner, top carousels  

This episode comes "live" from Conversion Jam 2 in Stockholm Sweden. A conference about conversion optimisation. We share our expectations for the day and have a chat with the first keynote speaker of the day, Craig Sullivan an optimisation rock-star (and DJ). We previously chatted with Craig in Episode 11 of UX Podcast about mobile optmisation. (Listening time: 8 minutes) References: Conversion Jam 2 Craig Sullivan on Slideshare Other UX Podcast episodes from Conversion Jam 2: Show 1 - Craig Sullivan, optimisation Show 2 - Brian Clifton, measure Show 3 - Annelie Näs, responsive Show 4 - Mårten Angner, top carousels  

In this show James and Per were joined by Nathan Shedroff and Christopher Noessel authors of Make It So, interaction design lessons from science fiction. For a number of years Nathan and Chris have been collecting and investigating interfaces seen and used in science fiction, that research has now made it into book form. We talk to them about the background to Make It So, how the book came about, the influence that Sci-fi has on real world interfaces (and vice versa), and we nerd it up on a few occasions with some specific sci-fi examples. All this whilst spanning three time zones (Stockholm, New York and San Franciso). uxpodcast-episode-025-make-it-so.mp3 Listen on Posterous (Listening time: 48 minutes) References: Captain Picard: "Make it so" Design Lessons from Star Trek to Consider Before Creating Your Next User Interface Make it so website Brainstorm (1983) and Strangedays (1995) Volumetric projections Memory alpha Riker's joystick and The Riker Maneuver Voyager episoder "The 37s" Destination Moon, Rocketship X-M and Nude on The Moon Quantified self Make it so book illustrations Flickr collection Permalink | Leave a comment  »

In this show James and Per were joined by Nathan Shedroff and Christopher Noessel authors of Make It So, interaction design lessons from science fiction. For a number of years Nathan and Chris have been collecting and investigating interfaces seen and used in science fiction, that research has now made it into book form. We talk to them about the background to Make It So, how the book came about, the influence that Sci-fi has on real world interfaces (and vice versa), and we nerd it up on a few occasions with some specific sci-fi examples. All this whilst spanning three time zones (Stockholm, New York and San Franciso). (Listening time: 49 minutes) References: Captain Picard: "Make it so" Design Lessons from Star Trek to Consider Before Creating Your Next User Interface Make it so website Brainstorm (1983) and Strangedays (1995) Volumetric projections Memory alpha Riker's joystick and The Riker Maneuver Voyager episoder "The 37s" Destination Moon, Rocketship X-M and Nude on The Moon Quantified self Make it so book illustrations Flickr collection