The UX hour, Episode 3

Sorry everyone - technical issues this week (again) meant this show didn't go live. Next week for sure. I'll be switching to QT Broadcaster streaming to Justin.tv which will let me record all video, no matter what happens.

Thanks to Lukas for taking the time out to chat to me. We'll try again soon.

Join me for episode 3 of the UX hour.

This episode I'll by joined by Lukas Mathis, User Interface Engineer and creator of the popular Ignore the Code.

LIVE
Sunday 7pm Eastern, 4pm Pacific Time, 23:00 UTC, 9am Monday, AEST

http://www.livestream.com/theuxhour

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The UX Hour goes Live

Pilot episode of 'The UX Hour' going live now.

UPDATE: A success! Many thanks to everyone who watched and contributed in chat particularly @formulate

On-demand video now placed here. (nothing happens in the first few minutes of video - hang in there)

Click to watch this episode on demand.

I'm still working out the livestream.com embedding, so please let me know if you have problems watching the show.

Show notes: Books:
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School by Matthew Frederick
Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge
Wayfinding by Craig M. Berger
Visual Perception Jürg Nänni *German Amazon.

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Announcing The UX Hour

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

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