Recent posts in my Video Category
July 12, 2010
Pundits and predictions...the World Cup according to the English press
To celebrate the end of the World Cup, I've made a short video which shows English newspaper front pages going from declaring that England had an "E.A.S.Y." draw, to saying that the players have let their country down. Along the way, it seems like a psychic octopus was outperforming the nation's football pundits. And none of them offered to resign either...
May 5, 2010
The digital general election - online design slideshow and video
During the course of the election campaign I've been making a gallery of screenshots of online news coverage, with a particular focus on the design of interactive tools and maps. I've put them together into a Flickr set, and made a short video compilation of them.
May 4, 2010
"Content Strategy Manhattan style" video, and EUSci Extra podcast
Content from two events I've recently been involved in has just been published on the net. You can watch video of the "Content Strategy Manhattan style" evening, or listen to an interview featuring me from the EUSci podcast, recorded when I was speaking at the Edinburgh International Science Festival.
November 27, 2009
London IA Mini 4: Max Gadney - "The glass-bottomed boat"
Early in November we held the fourth London IA Mini conference evening. Zebra People sponsored the night, which was hosted by EMC Conchango. In the first part of my round-up of the evening, I had some notes and a video clip of Max Gadney's opening talk. BBC History archive - 'What is the way in?' Max was talking about how information design needs to be really useful for the audience, and not just about 'designing for ourselves'. As a commissioner...
October 2, 2009
UX London redux video: Tom Coombs on Jared Spool - part 3
This is the final video clip of a series I've been publishing over the last couple of weeks. They were made at the London IA mini evening where we held a redux of the UX London conference organised by Clearleft. This bit of video is the conclusion of Tom Coombs providing a redux of Jared Spool's sessions Tom Coombs on Jared Spool The last section of Tom's talk looks at three things that Jared talked about at UX London....
October 1, 2009
UX London redux video: Tom Coombs on Jared Spool - part 2
During August the London IA Mini event was a redux evening that concentrated on providing a distilled version of the recent UX London conference. I've been posting some video clip of the night, including Tom Coombs presenting a redux of the workshop by Donna Spencer. In his talk, Tom also covered the UX London workshop from Jared Spool. Tom Coombs on Jared Spool This clip shows Tom talking about the use of 'cute links' which don't describe their destination,...
September 30, 2009
UX London redux video: Tom Coombs on Jared Spool - part 1
At the recent London IA redux of the UX London conference, Tom Coombs ran a session where he summarised the highlights of workshops by Donna Spencer and Jared Spool. This is the first of three video clips of him talking about Jared. Tom Coombs on Jared Spool In the course of this clip Tom explains a little about Jared's view on using the correct language for the audience, and examines some of the themes in the 'Why good content...
September 25, 2009
UX London redux video: Tom Coombs on Donna Spencer
Back in the August the London IA mini event was a redux session of the UX London conference. As part of the evening's presentations, Tom Coombs was attempting to distill hours of workshops by Donna Spencer and Jared Spool into a 15 minute session. This video clip includes highlights some of what Tom said about Donna. Tom Coombs on Donna Spencer Tom's overview of Donna's workshop explained how she used physiological factors like the way the human eye works,...
September 24, 2009
UX London redux video: Chris Petzny on Dan Saffer
In August the London IA mini event was a redux evening featuring cut-down versions of talks and workshops from the UX London conference. Chris Petzny gave the first redux talk of the evening, attempting to distill Dan Saffer's conference presentations into 15 minutes. Chris Petzny on Dan Saffer In this clip, Chris explains how Dan Saffer challenged the UX London audience to design a product for the blind and deaf, and used that as the springboard to explore his...
September 16, 2009
UX London redux video: Frances Eida on sketching
Update: I mentioned Frances Eida as an inspiration for my own sketching in my talk at EuroIA 2010 in Paris. The other sketchers I mentioned as inspiring were Eva-Lotta Lamm and Anna Lena Schiller. I've been publishing a series of videos of the UX London redux evening put on in August by the London IA group. The last clip I posted was of Jane Austin and Chris Neale talking about sketching. This next excerpt features the third person from IG...
UX London redux video: Jane Austin & Chris Neale on sketching
Last week I started publishing some video clips I made at the recent London IA event that presented a redux of the UX London conference. Amongst them I posted several excerpts from James Box's "Wireframes 2.0" session, which covered sketching and building interactive prototypes amongst other things. Today I wanted to continue the sketching theme, with a clip from the evening's final presentation by Jane Austin, Chris Neale and Frances Eida from IG Index. Jane Austin & Chris Neale on...
September 10, 2009
UX London redux video: James Box on Wireframes 2.0 - part 5
This is the last video clip from James Box's "Wireframes 2.0" presentation at the UX London redux evening put on by the London IA group during August. James Box on Wireframes 2.0 Following James' presentation there was a Q&A session. These excerpts show his responses to questions about getting clients to "sign-off" on interactive prototypes, and contributions to the debate from Jason Mesut and Andy Budd. UX London redux video: James Box on Wireframes 2.0 - part 5 from Martin...
September 9, 2009
UX London redux video: James Box on Wireframes 2.0 - part 4
During August the London IA Mini event was a redux evening that concentrated on providing a distilled version of the recent UX London conference. I made some video clips of the evening, and over the last couple of days I have been posting excerpts from James Box's "Wireframes 2.0" talk. James Box on Wireframes 2.0 In the last section of this redux presentation from James Box, he examines ways of documenting rich interactions like AJAX interfaces. He illustrates this...
September 8, 2009
UX London redux video: James Box on Wireframes 2.0 - part 3
I've been posting a series of short video excerpts from the London IA redux event covering the UX London conference. This clip is the third part of the excellent "Wireframes 2.0" presentation by Clearleft's James Box. James Box on Wireframes 2.0 This clip moves Wireframes 2.0 on from sketching with pencil and paper, to making interactive prototypes. James looks at the situations where you may want or need to do this. For UX London, Clearleft made available a set...
UX London redux video: James Box on Wireframes 2.0 - part 2
The UX London conference was the subject of a 'redux' in our most recent London IA Mini series. I've been publishing a series of video clips I made of the evening, including Andy Budd's introduction. Today I'm continuing with excerpts from "Wireframes 2.0" presented by James Box of Clearleft. James Box on Wireframes 2.0 In this part of his UX London redux talk, James looks at sketching, with some real examples from project work at Clearleft. As well as...
September 7, 2009
UX London redux video: James Box on Wireframes 2.0 - part 1
The most recent London IA Mini evening event was a redux of the UX London conference. I've started posting some video clips I made of the evening. One of the most engaging and useful presentations was by James Box, and this is the first of a series of excerpts from his "Wireframes 2.0" redux. James Box on Wireframes 2.0 In this clip, James introduces the Wireframes 2.0 workshop that he presented with colleague Richard Rutter, and discusses how, in writing...
UX London redux video: Andy Budd on UX London
A couple of weeks ago The Team hosted London IA Mini 3 near London Bridge. The night, kindly sponsored by Zebra People, was given over to 'redux' presentations of the recent UX London conference organised by Clearleft. As well as posting a blog-redux-of-the-redux myself, I also filmed the majority of the evening, and over the next few days I'll be posting clips including Chris Petzny, Tom Coombs, Chris Neale, Francis Eida, Jane Austin and James Box. I wanted to start...
September 2, 2009
'thelondonpaper' website review
I don't know, you take a couple of days off work to move house become homeless, and people start closing newspapers behind your back. My commute home will shortly face one less obstruction when I'm walking down York Way. It was only at the end of May that doomed free newspaper thelondonpaper was advertising their free website for London - thelondonpaper.com - with a big wrap-around spread that reproduced the newly re-designed site in print. Free seems to have very...