UXDesignCast

Joining Karel on this episode are Jay Trimble (Group Lead for the User Centered Technology Group, NASA Ames Research Center), Keith Instone (Information Architecture Lead, IBM CIO’s Office, IBM.com), and Eliane Tozman (User Interface Designer, IBM Media Design Studio).  The panel discusses the new way of using Web 2.0 including microblogging behind corporate firewalls with IBM Lotus Connections 2.5, the recent typography choices make by IKEA and what impact they may have, the need to consider the total cloud user experience importantly including ISPs, the implications for designers of Google’s Chrome Frame, key principles for and examples of effective Rich Internet Application (RIA) design, and planning for World Usability Day.

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Joining Karel on this episode are Val Fox (Director, Innovative Technology Solutions, Ryerson University), Keith Instone (Information Architecture Lead, IBM CIO’s Office, IBM.com), and Eliane Tozman (User Interface Designer, IBM Media Design Studio).  The panel discusses the recent announcements of Bing and Chrome OS, followed by a description of the Ryerson Digital Playground and the poll results relating to the design impact on purchase decisions. The interesting link for this month is the what is a browser video and the community news regarding the call for papers for CHI 2009 and the new UX Book Club initiative.

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Joining Karel on this episode are Val Fox (Director, Innovative Technology Solutions, Ryerson University), Keith Instone (Information Architecture Lead, IBM CIO’s Office, IBM.com), Eliane Tozman (User Interface Designer, IBM Media Design Studio), and our newest member of the panel Jay Trimble (Group Lead for the User Centered Technology Group, NASA Ames Research Center).  The panel discusses the Palm Pre and Palm’s new WebOS, an update on the Usability Professionals Association (UPA) including an innovative perspective on design called Evil by Design, a summary of the trend toward what has recently called the real-time web including design features of Google Wave and recent experiences regarding Twitter. The interesting website of the month that was discussed is spezify.com and the community news concerned the IxDA organization. The Mozilla Labs design challenge together with IxDA was also discussed.

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Panelists joining Karel on this episode are Val Fox (Director, Innovative Technology Solutions, Ryerson University), Keith Instone (Information Architecture Lead, IBM CIO’s Office, IBM.com), and Eliane Tozman (User Interface Designer, IBM Media Design Studio). The panel discusses the Sixth Sense research project, the future of internet search, data-driven design, and what’s messing up our UIs.

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Panelists joining Karel on this episode are Eliane Tozman (User Interface Designer, IBM Media Design Studio) and Keith Instone (Information Architecture Lead, User Experience Design, ibm.com). The panel discusses Karel’s blog post designing for the cloud, the IBM Blue Spruce project, the 10 harsh truths about corporate websites, the intelligent software assistant, and Microsoft’s glimpse of the future.

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Panelists joining Karel on this episode are Val Fox (Director, Innovation Technology Solutions, Ryerson University), Keith Instone (Information Architecture Lead, User Experience Design, IBM.com), and Eliane Tozman (User Interface Designer, IBM Media Design Studio).  The panel discusses the how design is becoming a product differentiator in particular markets, the success of Facebook despite design challenges, the increasing importance of design, what user experience design is, and misconceptions about user experience design.

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Panelists joining Karel on this episode are Val Fox (Director, Innovation Technology Solutions, Ryerson University), Keith Instone (Information Architecture Lead, User Experience Design, IBM.com), and Eliane Tozman (User Interface Designer, IBM Media Design Studio).  The panel discusses the possible impact the new full screen, multi-touch interfaces on devices like the iPhone, Google G1, and Blackberry Storm may have on computing devices in the future, a book about the business success resulting from and a deep focus on design, and trends in uses of social software.

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Panelists joining Karel on this episode are Val Fox (Director, Innovation Technology Solutions, Ryerson University), Keith Instone (Information Architecture Lead, User Experience Design, IBM.com), and Eliane Tozman (User Interface Designer, IBM Media Design Studio).  The panel discusses Google’s new Gmail colors and themes, Wire magazine’s article “Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look so 2004″, the increasing pervasiveness of mobile touch user interfaces, and the introduction of a major new design and how to make it successful.

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This is the first of what will become a regular panel session podcast discussing recent news, trends, and insights regarding User Experience and Design.  Panelists joining Karel on this episode included Val Fox (Director, Innovative Technology Solutions, Ryerson University), Keith Instone (Information Architecture Lead, User Experience Design, IBM.com), and Eliane Tozman (User Interface Designer, IBM Media Design Studio).  This month the panel discusses the new Google browser Chrome, innovative tablet-based education, Mozilla Labs’s Ubiquity UI experiment, the reappearance of the command line interface, the influence of comics on design, and the iPhone WritingPad app from IBM Research.

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