UXpod - User Experience Podcasts
Friday, July 13th, 2007I just returned home from my first business trip to Minneapolis now that I live in Iowa City. The drive is 5 hrs long each way, so before I left I loaded up my iPod with some podcasts hoping I could use that “downtime” as inspiration time. And it worked thanks to Gerry Gaffney and UXpod.com
I listened to 20 of his podcast interviews and enjoyed just about everyone of them. Gerry does an excellent job interviewing a range of UX practioners from around the world, which helps me think beyond the US bubble I live in.
I really enjoyed the following:
Web Teams - an Interview with Jesse James Garrett
Customer Support - an Interview with Joel Spolsky
Intel Outside - an Interview with Genevieve Bell
Personas and Outrageous Software - an Interview with Alan Cooper
Market Research - an Interview with John Berenyi
Card Sorting with Donna Maurer
Voice User Interfaces - an Interview with Erin Smith
Web Accessibility Guidelines - an Interview with Gian Sampson-Wild
Like I said, I enjoyed a lot of them.
The only complaint I have is that the audio quality (compression) and volume vary greatly between files making the listening experience a bit challenging. I would encourage Gerry to standardize his format and error on the side of good audio quality, since if it’s not enjoyable then people won’t listen.
I will be posting some comments on his site as well for each podcast and would encourage anyone and everyone to do the same. Keep up the good work Gerry, I will be traveling again in a month so if you could get another 20 or so done by then — that would be greeeaaat.