Jeff Eaton and Karen McGrane discuss the rise of mobile; the challenges of transitioning to reusable content; and Karen’s new book, Content Strategy for Mobile.
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Insert Content Here, Episode 4: Karen McGrane on Content Strategy for Mobile | Lullabot
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Karen McGrane - Adapting Ourselves to Adaptive Content
For years, we’ve been telling designers: the web is not print. You can’t have pixel-perfect layouts. You can’t determine how your site will look in every browser, on every platform, on every device. We taught designers to cede control, think in systems, embrace web standards. So why are we still letting content authors plan for where their content will "live" on a web page? Why do we give in when they demand a WYSIWYG text editor that works "just like Microsoft Word"? Worst of all, why do we waste time and money creating and recreating content instead of planning for content reuse? What worked for the desktop web simply won’t work for mobile. As our design and development processes evolve, our content workflow has to keep up. Karen will talk about how we have to adapt to creating more flexible content.
Presented by Karen McGrane at the Breaking Development Conference held in April 2012 in Orlando, FL.
If the internet is more awesome than it was in 1995, Karen would like to claim a very tiny piece of the credit. For more than 15 years Karen has helped create more usable digital products through the power of user experience design and content strategy. Today, as Managing Partner at Bond Art + Science, she develops web strategies and interaction designs for publishers, financial services firms, and healthcare companies.
Prior to starting Bond, Karen built the user-centered design practice at Razorfish in her role as VP and National Lead for User Experience. Karen is also on the faculty of the MFA in Interaction Design program at SVA in New York, where she teaches Design Management, which aims to teach students how to run successful projects, teams, and businesses.
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Aaron Gustafson – Adapting Your Designs with Progressive Enhancement » UIE Brain Sparks
It’s difficult to predict how users will access your designs and your content. More and more, people are connecting to the internet through some sort of mobile device. Using the latest advances in HTML and CSS can leave aspects of your site incompatible with some browsers. How do you ensure that you’re providing a good experience to your users over a broad spectrum of scenarios?
Aaron Gustafson, author of Adaptive Web Design, believes that progressive enhancement can help. He says that progressive enhancement is a great way to get designers to think about the user first. As he states in the podcast, “the best browser is the one you have with you… so why are you making it impossible for me to do something super simple?”
Approaching your designs in this way, you avoid putting technical restrictions on your users. You end up delivering a rich experience appropriate to them in their context. You can employ CSS3 and JavaScript to create a robust experience for those who have capable browsers. But you can also remain accessible and able to perform on older browsers or less capable devices.
In this podcast, Aaron and Jared Spool discuss adaptive web design in more depth. It’s a small taste of the daylong workshop Aaron will be presenting at the User Interface 17 conference in Boston, November 5-7, 2012. Learn more about UI17 at uiconf.com.
As always, we love to hear what you’re thinking. Share your thoughts in our comments section.
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Progressive Enhancement - Aaron Gustafson
Aaron Gustafson, author of Adaptive Web Design, joins us to discuss progressive enhancement techniques.
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Progressive Enhancement « Episodes « EE Podcast
Aaron Gustafson, author of Adaptive Web Design, joins us to discuss progressive enhancement techniques.
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Boagworld S02E07 - Real Life Responsive Design: Ethan Marcotte
We have all read articles on responsive design. However, when you put theory into practice things are never as simple as they first appear. Fortunately you can always ask Ethan Marcotte for help!
More info and transcript: http://boagworld.com/season/2/episode/s2e7/
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William Gibson interviewed by Cory Doctorow
William Gibson interviewed by Cory Doctorow at London’s Cadogan Hall, October 2010
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IT Conversations | Adaptive Path | Jesse James Garrett
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The Coming Age of Magic
The Coming Age of Magic, ETech Conference 2007, Mike Kuniavsky: Mike discusses how information processing is integrated into everyday objects, and the ‘desktop’ metaphor is obsolete. This post-desktop model of computing is known as ubiquitous computing. From http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/podcasts/
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Peter Merholz in Conversation with Don Norman About UX & Innovation
Peter Merholz chats with Don Norman, author and co-author of fourteen books, including the seminal The Design of Everyday Things, and his recently released The Design of Future Things, about what he thinks about user experience design today and what companies need to do to innovate. From http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/podcasts/
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