IA mentoring podcast
Published March 12th, 2008 in IA, Speaking, User experience, Web designI am now live on the air…on the net. The latest edition of Gerry Gaffney’s UXpod, user experience podcast, features yours truly speaking on the subject of mentoring. It follows my presentation at last year’s OZCHI and OZ-IA on the same topic, based on my experiences mentoring a group of non IAs through the UCD process to create a new IA for their large website.
I hate to uphold a cliche, but I’m not much of a fan of hearing my own voice. Although listening back to recordings of user interviews, focus groups, workshops and usability testing sessions has meant I am much more used to it than I used to be.
But that said, podcasting is such a great medium for this kind of content, and I was very happy to participate. Hopefully this edition will be as useful for listeners as the previous editions have been. I know I have found it quite useful to hear a concise discussion on a UX related topic, from an expert (although I’d hardly call myself an expert on mentoring). They’re great for when you’re on the bus.
Oh and here’s a tip for you, podcasts of your own voice are great for putting baby to sleep :)
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Pat says:
> Oh and here’s a tip for you, podcasts of your own voice are
> great for putting baby to sleep”
Brilliant!
[...] I enjoyed John’s perspective on this topic, and a few of his points in particular are closely aligned with my own views on UX practice. I’ve used mentoring in the same way as John’s “expert advocacy” where UX or IA expertise is bought by the hour, allowing for much greater freedom to add value to the design team without having to get approval for a project each time they want to ask a question. [...]