Aarron Walter

I had the pleasure of speaking with Dan Benjamin and Jeffrey Zeldman on The Big Web Show about findability, web standards, usability, and emotional design. Have a listen, won’t you?

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I’m in the process of writing a new book entitled Designing for Emotion to be published by A Book Apart in early 2011. As part of my research, I’ve been interviewing some designers who are pushing the bounds of emotional design in their work.

Dave Gorum is deftly lacing humor into Carbonmade, a web app that helps designers, artists, and photographers create stellar portfolios. The informal copy, goofy illustration, and unforgettable style of Carbonmade is helping drive conversions, and creating a loyal fan base of the product. I spoke with Dave recently to learn a little more about the thinking behind his work.

If the publishing industry can deliver on the promise made by the iPad and rich media technologies, a content renaissance could be around the corner fueled by throngs of customers ready to shell out for a more compelling experience.

The Web Standards Project and Environments for Humans are proud to announce the launch of InterACT With Web Standards, a book that brings all aspects of web design together for teachers and students. To celebrate the release of the book, several of the expert contributors come together online to give mini-tutorials in their fields of expertise:

Dan Benjamin – host of The Conversation podcast – talks with Christina Warren of Mashable and Nilay Patel of Engadget to discuss the issues surrounding h.264 and how the HTML5 video battles will shake out.

h.what? – The Conversation podcast