Blog Post

by Kevin Yank

This post has 8 responses so far

1. A suggestion: Rather than providing links to sites mentioned in the podcast, can you provide a transcript? That way, there’s another option for users who prefer to scan the transcript for the highlights rather than listening to a 20 to 45 minute podcast for the 2 or 3 items they are interested in.

   I’ve noticed more podcasts are simply providing a resource link to articles/sites mentioned in their podcast now, rather than providing a transcript.

   I would need another 48 hours in a day, or a dozen more sets of ears to hear all the podcasts.

   I find that if there’s no transcript for a podcast, I rarely follow through on downloading the podcast.

   redcrew
   April 4th, 2009 at 9:51 pm

2. Hello redcrew,

   Thanks for the comment.

   Kevin mentioned on the comment thread for the last show that transcription is on the way: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/03/20/sitepoint-podcast-11-interview-with-microsoft%E2%80%99s-chris-wilson/#comment-900384

   Hard to say when it will be, but it is on the table. :)

   Thanks,

   Patrick

   iFroggy
   April 4th, 2009 at 11:26 pm

3. Patrick, count my vote for transcripts as well. :)

   Black Max
   April 5th, 2009 at 2:08 pm

4. Thanks, Black Max. It’ll come when it comes! :) We appreciate the feedback. :)

   Patrick

   iFroggy
   April 6th, 2009 at 2:17 am

5. Thanks for mentioning my post in your podcast. Without getting into the broader discussion about the comparative roles of aesthetic design and functional design in tool sites vs experiential sites, I would like to mention that virtually every consumer-facing project at Google has one or more designers working on it.

   Google has a huge number of Interaction Designers whose roles encompass functional and aesthetic design. In my post I referred to the *visual design* group as more consolidated instead of distributed among all projects, but that is not to say that designers aren’t deeply involved in Google’s products.

   Interaction Design at Google is considered a superset of aesthetic, visual, functional and cognitive design. The fact that a designer skilled in both cognitive science and fine arts and is labeled an Interaction Designer is not to say that the products they work on suffer for not having a Visual Designer on the team because those skills are well represented.

   Kevin Fox
   April 6th, 2009 at 10:57 am

6. Thanks for stopping by, Mr. Fox.

   iFroggy
   April 6th, 2009 at 11:56 pm

7. Great information. Podcasts are links of the future. Does search engines count these links?

   leapbrowser
   April 7th, 2009 at 11:46 pm

8. Thanks for the kind words. Do you mean the links in the blog post? If so, yes.

   Thanks,

   Patrick

   iFroggy
   April 8th, 2009 at 11:19 pm