sketch.basement.org: Recent Episodes
Richard Ziade
Sketch.basement.org is the original home of sketchcasting - a new way of conveying concepts and ideas. Sketchcasting simulates the same "draw-as-you-talk" experience that has proven so effective with whiteboards. It's podcasting with a sketchpad!
RSS is a great technology for reading headlines from blogs and news sources, but it doesn't need to stop there. An RSS 2.0 feed is really just a a list of stuff. If we build on that premise, then we can do some incredibly powerful things with RSS. RSS Traits is an extension spec to RSS that allows you to deliver all kinds of information (domain-specific or otherwise) within an RSS feed.
RSS has never really broken mainstream. This video attempts to explain why RSS is useful and how to use it with Internet Explorer 7.
Product managers constantly deal with the tension between valued features and how complex or costly it would be to include them. This sketchcast explores that tension and highlights a common trap that product managers often fall into.
While it's widely accepted that marketing is a key part of a product's success, interaction design is often forgotten. This brief sketchcast explains why interaction design matters.
Sketch.basement.org is the original home of sketchcasting - a new way of conveying concepts and ideas. Sketchcasting simulates the same "draw-as-you-talk" experience that has proven so effective with whiteboards. It's podcasting with a sketchpad!