Announcing The UX Hour
Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 8:45PM Get a User Experience problem solved, re-educate me on a UI&us blog topic, crowdsource your design dilemma.
'The UX Hour' an effort to give back something to the community from which I've got so much. It will be one hour a week live video, chat, and skype call-in session somewhat modelled on Leo Laporte's and 37signals' live broadcasts.
To be clear — I'm not a UX 'fixit guru'! But I hope to offer perspective, resource suggestions and a forum for User Experience and User Interface conundrums. There's been a bunch of times when I've been stuck and another perspective has saved the day. It's an experiment, which may or may not prove fruitful…but with your help it can be practical convergence of designers with possible solutions and differing perspectives.
Technically, it will be a Ustream/LiveStream/justin.tv session with chat and Skype (audio) call in. Unfortunately technical and bandwidth issues will limit video to 360x240 initially. I'll supplement with a skitch.com image thread for high resolution images that everyone can contribute to. Any technical suggestions welcomed.
The first UXhour will be at:
- UTC: Sunday 19th July, 23:00
- US EST: Sunday 19th July, 7pm
- US PST: Sunday 19th July, 4pm
- Australian AEST: Monday 20th July, 9am
- NZ: Monday 20th July, 11am
Sorry Europe, I realize this will be Monday 01:00 for many of you.
Watch this space and please share your suggestions! It should be a lot of fun.
* Credit goes to Matthew Sanders, a UX guy much more experienced than I, for coming up with the name. Thanks Matt, hope that's OK!
** Note to those reminding me that the UI&us podcast has one, and only one episode to date: hopefully this live approach will be encouragement for more podcasts
Reader Comments (6)
Cool, this is a great idea - it's midnight in London (I think), and I'll definitely be there listening in.
Ah - great - thanks Alex. Yes, that would be midnight in London. Let me know if you've got any suggestions :-)
This is an excellent initiative. Mucho kudos.
Please, please, please record it and make it available as a podcast (preferably audio). It will be 2 am here, so the chances of me tuning in live are remote at best :)
Cheers,
Martin
Monday is my first day of holidays but I'll forgo the ludicrous sleep in just to listen to your wise and dulcet tones Mr Lang. Can't wait!
@Martin and @Jessica
The video will be available on-demand afterwards, so feel free to enjoy some more sleep if you didn't plan on participating :) Of course, the more the merrier and I'd love you to be there :-)
@Martin, I should be able to extract the audio if that helps, although we might be referring to images on screen
Looking forward to it! Thanks!