Comments on: SitePoint Podcast #12: 41 Shades of Blue

By: iFroggy

iFroggy — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:19:08 +0000

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

Thanks,

Patrick

By: leapbrowser

leapbrowser — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:46:32 +0000

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

By: iFroggy

iFroggy — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:56:57 +0000

Thanks for stopping by, Mr. Fox.

By: Kevin Fox

Kevin Fox — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:57:57 +0000

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.

By: iFroggy

iFroggy — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:17:58 +0000

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

Patrick

By: Black Max

Black Max — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 04:08:41 +0000

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

By: iFroggy

iFroggy — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:26:59 +0000

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

By: redcrew

redcrew — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:51:39 +0000

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.