CreativeXpert Design Interviews

Kristina Halvorson {43} Content Strategy

podcast@creativexpert.com (Alan Houser & Eric Anderson) — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:32:56 +0000

Founded in 2002 by Kristina Halvorson, Brain Traffic is widely regarded as one of the country's top content strategists and industry presenters. In this episode, we are joined by Kristina to discuss content, copywriting and the difference between them.

Scott Thomas {42} Designing Obama

podcast@creativexpert.com (Alan Houser & Eric Anderson) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:30:11 +0000

Obama’s successful 2008 campaign marked the first time in recent history branding & design played such a pivotal role in a Presidential bid. In this episode, we are joined by the projects Design Director of New Media, Scott Thomas.

Zeldman & Marcotte {41} Designing With Web Standards 3rd Edition

podcast@creativexpert.com (Alan Houser & Eric Anderson) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:06:58 +0000

Recorded and streamed LIVE! on October 29th, Episode 41 is CreativeXpert’s inagural live show. We were truly blessed to have the ‘High Z’ himself—Jeffery Zeldman and the only ‘Unstoppablerobotninja’ we know, Ethan Marcotte join us to discuss Designing With Web Standards 3rd Edition.

Andrew Wilkinson {40} MetaLab

podcast@creativexpert.com (Alan Houser & Eric Anderson) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:21:40 +0000

Known and loved for his pixel perfection, Andrew Wilkinson is a Victoria B.C., Canada-based designer who runs MetaLab, an interface design studio. He makes all sorts of neat stuff for a living. In this episode we find out what’s behind MetaLab, Ballpark and other projects that will make you swoon.

Carver & Veen {39} Typekit

podcast@creativexpert.com (Alan Houser & Eric Anderson) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:26:34 +0000

In this episode, Ryan Carver and Greg Veen join us from Small Batch Inc., the makers of Typekit. Typekit aims to solve all of the problems that currently prevent web designers from using commercial typefaces in their designs. This really is going to change web design.

David Kaneda {38} JQTouch & the Mobile Web

podcast@creativexpert.com (Alan Houser & Eric Anderson) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:00:00 +0000

In this episode we meet David Kaneda to talk about the the Mobile Web, the iPhone and JQTouch: a jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, Android, Palm Pre, and other forward-thinking devices.

Dan Rubin {37} Partnerships and Collectives

podcast@creativexpert.com (Alan Houser & Eric Anderson) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:09:18 +0000

In this episode we speak with Dan Rubin about forming solid partnerships with other designers, developers and creative peeps.

Podcast of the Year {36} Self Service

podcast@creativexpert.com (Alan Houser & Eric Anderson) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:31:12 +0000

Holy Cannolis! Did you hear about CreativeXpert’s nomination for Podcast of the Year? Why haven’t you voted!? Vote at www.thenetawards.com … NOW!

Scott Belsky {35} Behance

podcast@creativexpert.com (Alan Houser & Eric Anderson) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:21:53 +0000

In this episode we speak with Scott Belsky, founding partner of Behance, designers of products and services that organize the creative world. The creative community is responsible for making the things that make life interesting and enjoyable. On the other hand, the creative community is probably the most disorganized community on the planet. Behance enables the creative individual to make ideas happen.

Passionate About Design {34}

podcast@creativexpert.com (Alan Houser & Eric Anderson) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:41:05 +0000

We’re joined by Craig Birchler, IxD to the stars. We talk about why so many projects fail — it could be the lack of passion across all of your team.

Strictly Business {33}

podcast@creativexpert.com (Alan Houser & Eric Anderson) — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:10:47 +0000

This week Eric and Alan are flying solo — just enough time to get caught-up on a little podcast business.

Tyler Thompson {32} #squarespace

podcast@creativexpert.com (Alan Houser & Eric Anderson) — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:51:57 +0000

Remember when you saw #squarespace on twitter everyday, all day for a month? Tyler Thompson, the Squarespace Creative Director joins us to tell us what’s behind the hashtag, and more — why Squarespace is THE WEB PUBLISHING SYSTEM you should be using.

Ryan Stewart {31} Adobe Flash Catalyst

podcast@creativexpert.com (Alan Houser & Eric Anderson) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:59:18 +0000

This week we’re joined by Ryan Stewart, Adobe Platform Evangelist who shares the gospel of Flash Catalyst. Adobe defines Catalyst as: “a new professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating user interfaces without coding.”

Craig Freaking Birchler {30} Is this how you build an app?

podcast@creativexpert.com (Alan Houser & Eric Anderson) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:54:30 +0000

We meet the Indianapolis-based Interaction Designer, Craig Birchler who is crazy about apps.

Dustin Curtis {29} Dear American Airlines

podcast@creativexpert.com (Alan Houser & Eric Anderson) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:56:41 +0000

We meet freelance designer Dustin Curtis and discuss the letter he wrote to American Airlines about his experience as an AA customer. We also hear what it's like to be a continental drifter-designer.