To get in the mood for the upcoming interview with Gordon Montgomery of Neudesic, I scanned Google for podcasts dealing with UX. I stumbled on to Gerry Gaffney’s User Experience Podcast (UXpod). This is a real gem. UXpod has over 30 high quality interviews with leading figures in User Experience including Luke Wroblewski, Joel Spolsky, Elizabeth Rosenzweig, Steve Krug and many others.
You might have paid to hear some of these folks speak at conferences. Thanks to UXPod, you can experience them in your car on the way to the office. If one of the lectures isn’t interesting, just fast forward to the next. It’s not like being at a conference where everyone sees you leave the room. You can stop them while you head in to UpperCrust for coffee, and you can make them start all over again if you get distracted by the driver next to you. Not even Tim O’Reilly can do that at a conference.
Happy listening, and see you on Mopac!
I am more fortunate than many. I only spend about 20 mins a day on Mopac. Thanks to IT Conversations mp3s, Mopac has become my IT classroom. Leading up to this month’s GeekAustin Agile Happy Hour, I decided to fish around for agile podcasts and conference proceedings. Here are two of my finds:
Agile Toolkit Podcast. There are a lot of great interviews here — enough to keep you busy for a few months. In particular:
Team Agile Interviews. Includes interviews with Kent Beck and Johanna Rothman.
With all these resources, we’ll all be scrum masters in no time. Just don’t forget to stop for gas.
-Linear
