UX Podcast

Sara Andersson from Search Integration joins James and Per in Episode 24 to discuss search and No Ketchup. We talk to Sara about her long background in search and marketing, her passion for search and the "no ketchup" blog - doing honest work for clients, pulling the lid on sugar coated fluffy offers that deliver nothing, breaking down silos and helping clients learn more about search. uxpodcast-episode-024-no-ketchup.mp3 Listen on Posterous References: No Ketchup blog Websites reveal your visits to Google (Swedish) Echo and amplify your content – The key to integrated search marketing SEOMoz - Beginners guide to SEO Permalink | Leave a comment  »

This time James and Per discuss usability rules and recommendations. Jakob Nielsen earlier this year updated his web design recommendation, saying that you should now design for around 1440 pixels wide. With this as a starting point we cover browser viewports, research,  recommendations, responsive web design and mobile web sites. Phew, all that and a little more in 29 minutes!  uxpodcast-episode-023-break-point.mp3 Listen on Posterous (Listening time 29 minutes) References: Computer screens are getting bigger Screens are getting bigger, but not the browser viewport The Right column is a black hole for content (Swedish) Wordpress plugin: Measuring viewport size How Moving the Call-to-Action below the Fold Generated a 304% Lift in Conversions Whitney Hess's "one column" site Permalink | Leave a comment  »

In this show James and Per discuss web management. We take 3 recent examples where organisations have undertaken major changes to their web presence and investigate how it all went. What did they do well? what went wrong? what should they have done? uxpodcast-episode-022-change-name.mp3 Listen on Posterous (Listening time 38 minutes, including 2 minutes of comedy intro) References: Namnbyte i sociala medier – så gör Sveriges Kommunikatörer (Swedish) Sveriges Kommunikatörer (Swedens Communicators) Gerry McGovern One of Gerry's broken links Screenshot of search results showing Gerry's "Broken links" post from 2001 Taking care of RSS readers Conversation with Swedish publication Internet World about their broken RSS (Swedish) Permalink | Leave a comment  »

In this episode James and Per talk about Sweden Social Web Camp. A yearly unconference held on an island off the south coast of Sweden. Per was there, James watched from afar. We discuss what the conference is about, how it works and what the whole experience is like - we even throw in few discussions about what could be improved and what could be be borrowed by other conferences. uxpodcast-episode-021-sswc.mp3 Listen on Posterous (Listening time 28 minutes) References: Per's short film explaining SSWC in English Definition of unconference on Wikipedia Official SSWC website (in Swedish) What makes SSWC so special a collection of posts from SSWC 2012 (in Swedish) Notes from Derek Featherstone's presentation at UXLX 2012 by James and by Per People mentioned: Daniel Erkstam, Patrik Fältström, Chris McCann, Derek Featherstone.   Permalink | Leave a comment  »

A linkshow - In episode 20 of UXPodcast James Royal-Lawson and Per Axbom discuss three recent articles that they've found during their digital travels, discuss them and swear a little. This episode's topics are... Social media marketing - Barclay's Facebook Debacle The agency model - It's f*cked Visual marketing - adding images to your content uxpodcast-episode-020-linkshow.mp3 Listen on Posterous (Listening time 28 minutes) References: Epic Fail: Barclays' Facebook Debacle Highlighted the Chasm Between the Bank and Its Customers UX Design at Digital Agencies is F*cked Part 2: Lean UX at Digital Design Agencies Client/Agency Engagement is F*cked, Waterfall UX Design is a Symptom Six ways visual content marketing can blow your mind Permalink | Leave a comment  »

In this episode of UXPodcast James Royal-Lawson and Per Axbom take three recent articles that they've stumbled upon during their digital travels and discuss them. This episode's topics are... Alt atributes, accessibility and programming standards Screen sizes - why Jakob neilsen's latest recommendation is wrong User research and enterprise search uxpodcast-episode-019-linkshow.mp3 Listen on Posterous (Listening time 26 minutes) Links to the articles discussed: The case of the missing attribute Computer screens getting bigger 14.5% of organisation have done user research for enterprise search and the results from the enterprise search and findability survey 2012   Permalink | Leave a comment  »

In this show we sat down at Kulturhuset in Stockholm together with Martin Christensen, user experience designer and agile coach, to talk about agile and how you apply it to multiple disciplines, including UX. Martin promised to give us a "silver bullet" solution for handling agile ux. Let's listen and find out what it is... uxpodcast-episode-018-agile.mp3 Listen on Posterous (Listening time: 27 minutes) References: UX Open Agile software development Lean Lean UX: Getting out of the deliverables business Jeff Gothelf  Agile UX vs Lean UX Permalink | Leave a comment  »

Three jam-packed days of UXLx have whizzed by. 4 workshops, 4 lightning events, 10 conference talks, fair few glasses of wine and beer, an incredible number of conversations with a whole load of really smart people. In this 6th and last podcast from Lisbon at UXLx we give you a quick roundup of our favourite talks from the conference day on Friday plus a few reflections from fellow conference attendees Lynsey Thornton and Celine O'Niell. Finally a few reflections and take-homes from the entire event. uxpodcast-episode-17-uxlx-006.mp3 Listen on Posterous References: Bruno Figueiredo, UXLx event organiser The computer for the 21st Century (PDF)   Permalink | Leave a comment  »

It's the end of day 2 here at UXLx and that means that we've finished the workshop part of the conference. This afternoons workshops were We've done all this research, now what? with Steve Portigal and Accessibillity for UX Designers with Derek Featherstone.  uxpodcast-episode-16-uxlx-005.mp3 Listen on Posterous   Permalink | Leave a comment  »

During the lunch break of day 2 here at UXLx 2012 Per and James talked to Dave Gray, one of the co-authors of Gamestorming and one of the workshop holders here yesterday morning. As well as talking to Dave about his workshop and preparation for it, we also got a few tips of gamestorming techniques that we as web and UX people could find useful. In the second part of the show, we give you a few quick impressions from this mornings workshops.  uxpodcast-episode-15-uxlx-004.mp3 Listen on Posterous (Listening time: 19 minutes) References: Empathy map Ethnio Permalink | Leave a comment  »

The afternoon of the first day of UXLx has included 2 lightning talks followed by a three hour workshop lecture. James and Per give you a quick run down and also talk about how workshops should be workshops. uxpodcast-episode-14-uxlx-003.mp3 Listen on Posterous Picture taken by Alissa.   Permalink | Leave a comment  »

It's the end of the first morning here at #uxlx and we've got our first workshops under out belts. James took part in David Gray's Gamestorming session whilst Per took part in Peter Morville's Cross-Channel Strategy workshop. Here's our initial thoughts from right after lunch... uxpodcast-episode-13-uxlx-002.mp3 Listen on Posterous Permalink | Leave a comment  »

This week we are recording from UXLx in Lisbon Portugal. We are planning to record a number of podcasts and cover both the workshops on Wednesday and Thursday and then the conference day on Friday. Episode 12 comes from James and Per's hotel room at the Trip Oriente. We had quite a fight with Garageband and our new microphones, but eventually, hungry and tried we got it all to work.  uxpodcast-episode-12-uxlx-001.mp3 Listen on Posterous Permalink | Leave a comment  »