Adaptive Path Podcast
83 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 15 years ago - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsAdaptive Path brings together a collection of podcasts from across the web. You'll find our practitioners speaking at conferences and interviewing experts in our field. You'll also find a collection of the best presentations from our events including UX Week and MX: Managing Experience.
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UX Week 2007 | International Spy Museum: Orchestrating the User Experience
March 25, 2008 20:42 - 47 minutes - 207 MBIn recent years, museums around the world have been redefining interactive experiences. Museum interactives are environmental and experiential – offering visitors opportunities to experience history, technology, culture and science in custom-designed, dedicated spaces that include artifacts, lighting, audiovisual elements, electro-mechanical technologies, graphics and scenic treatments. The International Spy Museum in Washington, DC has earned industry-wide acclaim for its interactive visitor...
UX Week 2007 | Search: The Purest Expression of Interaction Design
March 25, 2008 20:37 - 46 minutes - 20.3 MBSearch on the web is ubiquitous. Everyone knows and uses Google. Most websites include a way to search the content within their pages and web users are often classified as either searchers or browsers. For many companies, search is considered a solved problem—you get an engine, point it at your content, add an entry box to your global navigation and you are done. This couldn’t be further from the truth. As experience designers, we have an obligation to understand how search works so we can c...
UX Week 2006 | Thinking Creatively
February 22, 2008 23:58 - 54 minutes - 23.7 MBKathan Brown, author of the book "Magical Secrets About Thinking Creatively: The Art of Etching and the Truth of Life," discusses how her art publishing group Crown Point Press is helping bring artists together and redefine the communication of their ideas. In a conversation with Janice Fraser, at the Adaptive Path User Experience Week, Brown tells her story of art and working with artists. Fraser, who is CEO and founding partner of Adaptive Path, discusses with Brown that in today's busy wo...
UX Week 2006 | Failure: Learning From Your Mistakes (and Ours)
February 22, 2008 23:57 - 38 minutes - 16.9 MBMany Adaptive Path projects have been successes, such as the recent acquisition of Measure Map by Google. But in each successful career happened mistakes that led to an understanding how not to be successful. Leading heads of Adaptive Path give examples how projects went wrong because of their personal mistakes. But, best of all, you also get to hear what they learned from that failure. You can understand by example what they understood by painful failure. One of the biggest mistakes, alread...
UX Week 2006 | Understanding Your Content
February 22, 2008 23:55 - 42 minutes - 18.6 MBWhat are content audits and content maps, and why should they matter to companies who publish information on the Web? Chiara Fox, a senior information architect for Adaptive Path, defines the art of Content Analysis in the scope of web application design and migration. She identifies several milestones and key deliverables that most companies can use on their next (re)design project. Content analysis is a core component of the information architect's toolkit. Content analysis is the examinat...
UX Week 2006 | Good Design
February 22, 2008 23:54 - 16 minutes - 7.15 MBWhen his company, Adaptive Path, was engaged by a financial services firm to redesign their website that let customers perform retail banking transactions, Peter Merholz, Director of Practice Development, went into the homes of users asking them questions about their usage of the existing website, the kinds of reports they recieved, how they used their computer etc. Designers, according to Merholz, must broaden their peripheral vision to other domains outside their own. A website designer, b...
UX Week 2006 | What is Interaction Design?
February 22, 2008 23:44 - 35 minutes - 15.7 MBIf you ask Dan's parents what they think their son does for a living, they might say he's in advertising or that he's a computer programmer. Pressed further, they develop somewhat of a blank staring response when asked what their son does as an Interaction Designer. With that type of response in mind, both from his parents and from many people outside of the Interaction Design community, Dan Saffer presents a definition of his trade. From the highest level, Interaction Design is all about co...
UX Week 2006 | Facilitating Collaboration
February 22, 2008 23:43 - 45 minutes - 19.8 MBWeb technologies in various stages of adoption are having tremendous impact on the way we all communicate and collaborate online. Ryan Freitas of Adaptive Path provides an overview of how online collaboration has evolved in the presence of wikis, syndication and blogs. He also looks at the impact on how teams work together to use these tools internally, and how they can be utilized to communicate effectively with audiences worldwide. In addition, Freitas surveys the horizon for the next gener...
MX Conference 2007 | Creating Customer Loyalty
February 05, 2008 21:57 - 1 hour - 29.9 MBLou Carbone, author and CEO of Experience Engineering, Inc. will change the way you think about customer experience forever. His message to business leaders and professionals is simple: Create customers that come back and customers that tell others, by connecting emotionally with them through the experiences you deliver.
MX Conference 2007 | Managing Schizophrenic Projects
February 05, 2008 21:55 - 40 minutes - 17.8 MBToday there is an increasing need for companies to deal with "schizophrenic" challenges in creating compelling and profitable user experiences: a long-term vision and roadmap must be developed in parallel with defining near term offerings and tactical development decisions. This leads to tensions and organizational obstacles that need to be managed effectively.
MX Conference 2007 | The History of Flickr
February 05, 2008 21:53 - 50 minutes - 22 MBCaterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr and current member of the Yahoo's Technology Development Group, explains the humble beginnings of one of the earliest and most successful Web 2.0 applications, Flickr. Flickr actually began as a feature in Ludicorp's Game Neverending, a massive multiplayer online roleplaying game that was focused on social interaction rather than the more typical battle-style MMORPG. Ludicorp (from the latin word for "play") was a small game development company in Vancouver...
MX Conference 2007 | Elevating User Experience
February 05, 2008 21:52 - 46 minutes - 20.1 MBIrene Au discusses her previous experience at fast moving companies Netscape and Yahoo!, and how that experience will influence her latest challenge. As the new Director of User Experience at Google, she will be confronted with an organization that is clearly defined by its engineering culture. A shift in priority empahsized hiring for the UI role in 2006. But this does not automatically mean a shift away from Google’s strict engineering orthodoxy. Getting the strategic decision makers in a n...
MX Conference 2007 | Innovation Through Design Thinking
February 05, 2008 21:50 - 47 minutes - 20.7 MBWhere is design thinking taking us? The role of design is evolving within organizations, from simply optimizing what exists to being a source of new growth. The change is thrusting designers into new roles and domains, including the design of services and the transformation of organizations.
MX Conference 2007 | Useful, Usable and Desirable
February 05, 2008 21:45 - 47 minutes - 20.8 MBWhirlpool Corporation is a global manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances. Sara Ulius-Sabel, Metrics Manager for the company, presents a glimpse into Whirlpool's product development process through the lens of designing "Useful, Usable, and Desirable" products.
MX Conference 2007 | The Transformative Power of Research
February 05, 2008 19:59 - 51 minutes - 23.4 KBWhat does it take to create great design experiences? User-Centered Design is built on the principle that focusing on people will lead to better design. In attempting to understand consumers, companies tend to overlook the messy complexities of life, resulting in incomplete ideas about their customers' behavior. Empathy and insight are needed to fundamentally change generative research and design.
UX Week 2007 | The National Building Museum: From the Inside Out
November 30, 2007 01:13 - 46 minutes - 20.4 MBMany museums present exhibitions about architecture and design. In doing so, they typically treat buildings and other designed objects much as they do paintings, drawings, or sculptures — as individual creative works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or craftsmanship.
UX Week 2007 | Learning from Adaptive Path’s Mistakes
November 30, 2007 01:09 - 33 minutes - 14.8 MBEvery now and again, a project just jumps the rails — all the best intentions and planning just don’t stack up to the unanticipated challenges. After the dust settles, all we can do is learn from our mistakes and move on.
UX Week 2007 | Semantic Technologies
November 30, 2007 01:05 - 44 minutes - 1.93 MBApart from information discovery and aggregation, not much has been written about how semantic technology can be leveraged to improve user experience as a whole. This is unfortunate for a technology where the “semantic” is often overshadowed by the “web.”
UX Week 2007 | Visual Vocabulary for Rich Internet Applications
November 30, 2007 01:01 - 43 minutes - 19.3 MBFlow diagrams are a key component of an interaction design specification. Jesse James Garrett’s Visual Vocabulary uses a set of simple shapes to diagram user flow and illustrate basic relationships between webpages.
UX Week 2007 | CNN.com Relaunch Case Study
November 29, 2007 20:51 - 49 minutes - 21.6 MBCNN.com recently unveiled the latest evolution in online news: an intuitive, integrated Web site that gives users the global, national, and local news they find most relevant to them. The goal of this undertaking was to enhance and simplify online news for consumers to allow them to interact with news in more ways than ever before.
UX Week 2007 | Inclusive Iterations: How a Design Team Builds Shared Insights
November 29, 2007 20:48 - 45 minutes - 20.1 MBThis session will focus on the ways in which human-centered researchers team with colleagues across disciplines to transform a mass of data -- field observations, contextual interviews, secondary research and anecdotal stories -- into actionable design principles.
UX Week 2007 | Documentation: Choosing the Right Tool for the Job
November 29, 2007 20:45 - 43 minutes - 19 MBEvery document created by web designers contains many layers of information. Too few layers, and the ideas within lose context and meaning. Too many, and the important ideas become obscured. Choosing the right ideas to include can make or break a document, or even the entire project.
UX Week 2007 | The Conversation Gets Interesting: Creating the Adaptive Interface
November 29, 2007 20:42 - 44 minutes - 19.2 MBAs the technology for supporting more personalized experiences becomes available, we’re entering a new era of “adaptive interfaces,” where functionality is revealed over time and interface elements change based on individual usage. We can create interfaces that respond, suggest or change based on actual usage data.
UX Week 2007 | Stone Soup: Stories and Storytelling for Collaboration
November 29, 2007 20:41 - 45 minutes - 19.8 MBWe listen to stories for enlightenment and tell stories for education and entertainment. Everyday people are convinced, impressed, enlightened, discouraged, encouraged and swayed by the stories others tell in the workplace. In business time may be money, but the power of a good story, well told at the right time, has changed the course of individual careers, corporations and entire industries.
UX Week 2007 | How to Manage a User Experience Team (Without Losing Your Mind)
November 29, 2007 20:36 - 45 minutes - 19.9 MBMost of us who practice user experience design are generalists. We need to know enough about technology to work with engineers. We need to know enough about visual design to work with designers.
UX Week 2007 | Making Research Effective
October 09, 2007 16:52 - 45 minutes - 19.7 MBCreating engaging and enjoyable user experiences requires a solid understanding of the people your product or service is meant to serve. Unfortunately, many companies don’t really understand their customers — even companies with large research groups. But understanding people takes more than simply hiring researchers armed with PhDs and the latest methodologies. […]
UX Week 2007 | Capturing the Whole User Experience
September 11, 2007 05:13 - 43 minutes - 19 MBBusinesses that pay attention to the entire spectrum of customer interaction, and actually get it right (at least most of the time), win their customers’ attention and loyalty. And the key to creating a business that addresses the entire spectrum of user experience is to build empathy with your customers.
UX Week 2007 | Sketching in Code: Using Prototypes to Visualize Interactions
September 11, 2007 05:08 - 44 minutes - 19.5 MBAs Ajax, RIA’s and Agile methods become ever more common, we increasingly hear about the value of prototypes for design and development. Unfortunately, choosing the right prototype can be an exercise in uncertainty. To get a better handle on the prototype process, we will survey several different types of prototypes, with special focus on the appropriate […]
UX Week 2007 | Mobile Usability Testing
September 05, 2007 23:03 - 1 hour - 30.7 MBUser and usability testing of mobile applications requires an understanding of when to use devices, emulators, laboratories and field testing. This session targets user-experience professionals, teaching them how to expand and adjust their current testing procedures to address mobile applications and websites.
UX Week 2007 | Going Mobile: How to Choose Target Platforms and Devices?
September 05, 2007 22:58 - 46 minutes - 20.3 MBThere are dozens of development platforms in the mobile sphere. And 1,700 different devices on the market, each with its own rendering idiosyncrasies. Of course you also have to contend with carrier influence and distribution.
UX Week 2007 | Communicating Ideas Throughout an Organization
September 05, 2007 22:54 - 40 minutes - 17.7 MBCreative Project Leads and Team Managers face numerous challenges in a corporate environment. Often their working styles or problem-solving skills differ from the methods used in other departments, creating communication and collaboration issues.
UX Week 2007 | UX Design as Communities of Practice
September 05, 2007 22:53 - 45 minutes - 20 MBThe cluster of practices and professions we’ve come to think of as supporting User-Experience Design is still a new, strange territory for many of us. How does a person’s discipline define that person’s work? What skills, methods and tools should be the purview of a given role? It turns out that these are age-old issues […]
UX Week 2007 | Learning Interaction Design From Everyday Objects
September 05, 2007 22:53 - 45 minutes - 19.7 MBLike every other design discipline, an important component of self-education is learning to critically examine what others have produced. And when it comes to interaction design, there are plenty of good and bad examples to guide us.