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A podcast for those who design, develop and run websites.

Boagworld is the blog of web strategist Paul Boag who lives in the heart of rural Dorset (hence the cows). He produces a weekly podcast with UX consultant Marcus Lillington on building and running websites. They also run the web design agency Headscape.

Latest Shows

216. Thanks for all the fish
This week on Boagworld: Chris Coyier talks CSS and more, we say goodbye to the boagworld podcast and ask what can you listen to now?
215. Web Directions
This week on Boagworld: Emerging trends at Web Direction @Media, playful web design and death to design by committee.
214. When to hire a web designer
This week on Boagworld: When to hire a web agency, user testing on disposable websites and a need for speed.
213. Getting all emotional
This week on Boagworld: Stephen Anderson on emotional design, I review the iPad and we talk fonts, flash and fotos.
212. More skills to learn
This week on Boagworld: 5 new skills every web designer needs to know and how to be inspired while maintaining focus.

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‘News’ archive

News w/c 23/08/10

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This week has a slight UX flavour by exploring help content for users, the best UX books for beginners and how to motivate yourself through creative blocks.

News: w/c 16/08/10

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This week, we make a collection of the best collections of resources that hit the web this week, including iPhone and iPad development kits, the best apps and websites for any web designer, and HTML5 Boilerplate: A rock solid default for HTML5 awesome.

Web design news 09/08/10

Posted in News on the 06-08-2010 | 3 Comments

This week: The magic behind Amazon’s $2.7bn question, kick ass kickoff meetings and can you build an app in 10k?

Web design news 02/08/10

Posted in News on the 30-07-2010 | 2 Comments

This week: The 7 sins of web project management, Safari Extensions and Unicorn, an all-in-one validator from the W3C.

Web Design News 26/07/10

Posted in News on the 23-07-2010 | 3 Comments

This week: Why the fold doesn’t matter, big wins with quick changes and what’s the best size for a search box?

Web Design News 16/07/10

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This week: A presentation from Relly about Microcopy, using Twitter for customer testimonials and saying ‘no’ to clients.

Web Design News 08/07/10

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This week: A new BBC News homepage on the way, Using CSS3 and media queries to make robust background images that fill the browser and learning to love vendor prefixes.

Web Design News 22/06/10

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This week: The Boagworld Podcast goes off air, how to design better and faster, using stories in your design ideas and how to think from a users perspective.

Web Design News 15/06/10

Posted in Boagworld Bites, News on the 15-06-2010 | 2 Comments

This week: We look at emerging trends coming from Web Direction @Media including microcopy, HTML5 and CSS3 and inclusive design.

Time for something new

Posted in News on the 14-06-2010 | 104 Comments

Sometimes you need to leave behind the best things to embrace something new. That is what I want to do with Boagworld and I would encourage you to do the same.

Web Design News 08/06/10

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This week: A psychologist’s view of web design, a gaggle of usability testing posts, the need for speed and inspiration kills.

Web Design News 25/05/10

Posted in Boagworld Bites, News on the 25-05-2010 | 4 Comments

This week: Things I discovered at Future of web design, google open source web fonts, using flash to fill in the gaps and choosing the right image.

Web Design News 17/05/10

Posted in Boagworld Bites, News on the 17-05-2010 | 1 Comment

This week: how design and content work together, running a design workshop, the importance of control and top tips for effective landing pages.

Web Design News 11/05/10

Posted in Boagworld Bites, News on the 11-05-2010 | 1 Comment

This week: Engaging and helping your users, the power of habits, why business writing is so awful and things to do at the beginning of each project.

Web Design News 04/05/10

Posted in Boagworld Bites, News on the 04-05-2010 | 3 Comments

This week: Steve Job’s shares his thoughts on Flash, Ben Ward makes us understand the web and learn how to calibrate color for the web.

Web Design News 27/04/10

Posted in Boagworld Bites, News on the 27-04-2010 | 1 Comment

This week: Is the homepage dying? Everything you need to know about HTML5 and CSS3. Solve problems rather than add features. And why you shouldn’t be tied to a process.

Web Design News 20/04/10

Posted in Boagworld Bites, News on the 20-04-2010 | 2 Comments

This week: The dying art of design, the disappearance of flash, tasks not goals, twitters developer tools and google rank by speed.

Web Design News 13/04/10

Posted in Boagworld Bites, News on the 13-04-2010 | 2 Comments

This week: How to be the worlds worst project manager and how to alienate visitors. Also, why FAQs are failing and why page weight still matters.

Web Design News 30/03/10

Posted in Boagworld Bites, News on the 30-03-2010 | 8 Comments

This week: Does the fold matter after all, 5 quick ways to improve your sites usability, how to blog when you’re not a writer and ensure your projects run smoothly.

Web Design News 23/03/10

Posted in Boagworld Bites, News on the 23-03-2010 | 9 Comments

This week: IE9 is revealed, a new web design resource is launched, visual hierarchy is explained and we apply some phycology to our sites.

Additional Information

Produced by Headscape

Boagworld is produced by the web design agency Headscape founded by Marcus, Paul and Chris Scott. Headscape also has a number of other talented guys who blog. Check them out.

  • Craig Rowe is one of our amazing developers and writes some superb posts on everything from .net to AIR apps.

  • Ed Merritt is a Headscape designer who's blog contains examples of his work and a number of free Wordpress themes.

  • Dave McDermid is a Headscape developer who has an excellent blog. He blogs on everything from AJAX to security.

  • Rob Borley is one of our project managers and blogs regularly on client and project management issues.

  • Leigh Howells is our multimedia design guru (whatever one of those is). He blogs on a mixture of design and music.

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