Cameron Moll gave a great presentation to the Webmaster Jam Session in September in Dallas, Texas entitled Nine Skills That Separate Good and Great Designers. His presentation is filled with great observations about how to think of design as problem solving rather than making attractive things, and is great for budding web desginers. His examples illustrating each of his points find connections both within and outside of the web world, but always creatively support his key ideas. A podcast and PDF of his presentation are available for download. I advise following along in the presentation as you listen to the podcast as the images are important to the talk.
The Webmaster Jam Session conference had a number of speakers worth listening to including Andy Budd, and Eric Meyer. Podcasts of all talks can be downloaded, but the production quality is spotty on some.
Web Directions South, a recent conference held in Sydney Australia September 28 and 29, is now releasing presentation slides and podcasts of the learning sessions conducted by some bright people in the web world. Speakers include: Jeremy Keith, Andy Clarke, Kevin Yank, and many others. The podcasts are being released incrementally, but you can subscribe to receive them automatically when they become available. The topics of discussion are wide ranging including Information Architecture, recent technological trends, and the like.
Carson Workshops, the creators of Think Vitamin, puts on short conferences examining hot topics in the Web world featuring a host of luminaries speaking about the various facets of their topic. They often post podcasts of each talk, and their recent The Future of Web Apps Summit is the latest in that series. Kevin Rose, Jeff Veen, and Tantek ?áelik are just a few of the big names who spoke at the recent conference, and all of this knowledge is free for your listening pleasure. The topics cover UI design, the business of building and selling your web application, development practices, APIs, and more.
You can download each talk individually or subscribe to their RSS feed to get them all at once.
Picking up from my previous post about Hillman Curtis’s video interviews with great designers, here are some great podcast and streaming interviews with some talented designers who share insights about their creative process. All of these designers are talented at developing visual representations of concepts. Pop these interviews on your iPod for a nice little design lesson on the go.
