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SpoolCast: Followup Q&A from The Scent of Information  

SpoolCast: Followup Q&A from The Scent of Information
Recorded: July 1st, 2008.
Brian Christiansen, UIE Podcast Producer
Duration: 27m | File size: 16 MB
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Brian Christiansen and I recorded a special episode comprised entirely of questions from our customers. Last week, we held the UIE Virtual Seminar: The Scent of Information: Getting Users to Their Content. During the seminar, we received far more questions than time would allow answering. As is tradition, we put together this follow-up podcast to answer even more of your excellent questions.

In this episode, we discussed where you can find your users’ trigger words, talked about our 7-12 word link recommendation, discussed if you should replace your home page with your site map, and shared some examples of sites that handle long links well. Tune in to hear these and the answers to other questions from our seminar attendees.

If you missed our live seminar, a recording of the session is available for viewing. See The Scent of Information: Getting Users to Their Content for details.

Still have questions about our research into the Scent of Information? Ask them in the comments below!

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SpoolCast: Product Evolution with Adaptive Path’s Peter Merholz  

This week, our good friend Peter Merholz joins us for the show. Peter is president of the noted experience strategy and design consultancy Adaptive Path.

In our discussion, I asked Peter about mapping out a product’s evolution. Launching a product is no simple task. Every new product falls on the spectrum somewhere between feature-complete, perfect execution and actually shipping with a pile of features on the cutting room floor. Realistically, most sway towards the latter. But that doesn’t mean your products needs to feel unfinished.

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SpoolCast: Usability Guerilla Techniques with Dana Chisnell  

This week, I had the great honor of speaking with Dana Chisnell, noted usability expert and principal at Usability Works, a consultancy based in San Fransisco. Dana is also the co-author of the recently-released second edition of the Handbook of Usability Testing, a book so fine, I agreed to write the foreword.

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SpoolCast: Ajax Then and Now with Jeremy Keith  

This week, Ajax design expert Jeremy Keith joins us from Brighton, England. Jeremy is the technical lead at Clearleft, a leading design consultancy in the UK. We talked about the evolution and best use of the techniques we call Ajax.

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SpoolCast: What Makes a Great IA with Donna (Maurer) Spencer  

This week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Donna (Maurer) Spencer, a world-renowned information architect and owner of the freelance agency MaadMob, based in Canberra, Australia.

In this episode I asked Donna, “What separates good Information Architects from great Information Architects?”

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We’ve fixed the UIE Podcast Feed  

If you are a fan of our podcasts and have wondered what’s been happening, we had some link breakage over the past week or so. (It was spawned by a software upgrade and required a special prayer to the .htaccess gods.)

It’s now fixed, so you should have no trouble getting future podcasts.

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