SpoolCast #1.1: What Has Brown Done For You? (Part 1)

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SpoolCast #1.1: What Has Brown Done For You?
Recorded: August 23, 2006
Part 1 of 4
Duration: 25m 36s

Present for this recording were DeWayne Purdy, Kyle Pero, Lyle Kantrovich, Rashmi Sinha, and Nate Bolt.

In our first podcast, the SpoolCast Crew convenes (virtually) to discuss a variety of topics:

• What can we learn from the new Brown University web site?
• What does it mean to be usable?
• Why is MySpace so successful?
• Which is better designed, the new Brown Web Site or Craigslist?
• How important is the design of a home page? (I think not so much. Everyone else disagrees.)
• The value of social networking
• The UPA Body of Knowledge project
• The design experience, as it applies to conference design

You can meet the crew here.

Lyle does a magnificent job, considering he was suffering from a multi-week installation of laryngitis. Apparently, these are the first words he’s uttered to anyone in almost a month. (His wife still doesn’t know he’s gotten his voice back. Please don’t tell her.)

Josh Porter couldn’t join us for this inaugural episode, as he was in a secret government hospital having alien implants removed from a recent abduction.

After we recorded the session, Brown University went ahead and launched their new site, which you can see here. DeWayne shared us some user feedback to the beta: here, here, and here.

We also talked about the UPA Body of Knowledge project and the DUX 2005 conference that happened late last year.

I’ve divided the recording into four parts to make it easier to listen to while commuting. I should have Part 2 available tomorrow. (Here’s a feed that iTunes likes.)

The transcript for the entire broadcast is available here.

When you’re ready, you can listen to Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.

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