A Passion for Podcasting
I have been podcasting since 2005, sharing best practices in digital and hopefully entertaining along the way. Although I stopped the Boagworld Show in early 2020, you can still access the archive below.
Now I focus on sharing audio versions of my posts and talking rubbish with other aging web designers on One Footer in the Grave.
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Digital Insights
Digital Insights takes blog content on user experience design, digital marketing as well as related topics, and delivers them in a podcast audio format.
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Project Planning Based on Appetite
We can avoid project scope creep by using the concept of “appetite.” This focuses on time and budget instead of scope when defining projects.
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Success Lies in Mastering the Fundamentals Like Consistency
Explore the essence of web app design: Consistency. Uncover how it elevates UX, speeds development, and ensures seamless transitions across devices.
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Understanding the Underestimated Complexity of User Experience Design
I’ve realized how different web apps are from traditional websites. They require an approach and come with unique challenges.
Boagworld Show
The Boagworld Show was the first web design podcast and ran from 2005 to 2021. It interviewed the leading minds in the field and was instrumental in setting the direction of the modern web.
Select a season below to access the archive.
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Truly Lean UX
This free self-learning course teaches you all you need to know to improve the user experience of a website. It does this in a pragmatic way that works within any budget and no matter how tight the timescales.
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Pull Up a Chair for the Virtual Meetup
Meetups and conferences are great. But, getting to one can be time consuming and expensive. That is why, on this season of the Boagworld Show, we are bringing the meetup to you.
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Essential Skills for Digital Professionals
In this season of the Boagworld Show, we look at the essential skills every digital professional needs no matter what their specialism. Skills that will improve your career prospects, help you work better with colleagues and allow you to be more influential in your organisation.
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What Do You Do All Day?
Once upon a time, a website was built by web designers. Today digital consists of many hugely varied roles which all have to work together. In this season of Boagworld, we look at those different roles and explore what they involve in practice. We ask what exactly people do and how their career led them to where they are today.
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How to Maximise Your Conversion Rate
Every website seeks to encourage visitors to do something, whether it is place an order, make a donation or signup to a mailing list. But how do you do that without alienating users? After all, we now live in a world where one disgruntled customer can destroy a brand. This season of the Boagworld Show aims to teach you the secrets.
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How to Build a User Centric Culture
You cannot create a great user experience alone. You need colleagues across the organisation to be committed to the cause. But getting buy-in is not always easy. In this season of the podcast, we talk to a wide variety of organisations at different points in that journey seeking to understand how to build a user-centric culture.
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The Essential Fundamentals of UI Design
In our rush to stand out from the crowd and be new or innovative, we often forget the fundamentals of good user interface design. That is why in this season of the Boagworld Show, we revisit the essential fundamentals that will make or break the success of your site design.
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How to find success in content marketing
Content marketing is the secret to online visibility, whether you are building your personal reputation or a companies brand. In this season of the Boagworld Show, we introduce you to the many disciplines that you need to be a content marketing success.
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Open Mic Lightning Talks
What if you could attend a conference where every attendee could give a talk? An event where nobody got to decide who could or could not present and where ‘big names’ in the industry presented alongside first-time speakers.
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Roundtable Recommendations
The Boagworld Show is back for Season 17 and so is our roundtable. But this season we focus on tangible hints, tips and recommendations to make your working life easier.
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Something for Everyone
On this season of the Boagworld show we have something for everyone. Our five experts cover everything from design and development to management and marketing.
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Overcome your digital management problems
I put your digital management problems to some of the smartest people in the industry and see how they would solve your issue.
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Passion, success and motivation
In a departure from our normal subject matter, season 14 of the Boagworld Show looks at passion. Is it important to be passionate about your job and what influence does it have on success?
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User Experience Design
In this season of the Boagworld Show we explore the many myths surrounding user experience design. We unpack what user experience design really is. By the end of the season we guarantee you will have a much bigger definition. One that stretches from your Photoshop comp all the way to the corporate boardroom.
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Build your web business
Running a successful web design business is becoming tougher than ever before. It is especially hard if you are doing it alone. That is why in this season of the show we answer your questions, discuss your challenges and connect you with other entrepreneurs.
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Masterclass
Digital is scary! It’s fast moving and incredibly diverse. Even the most dedicated of digital professional cannot hope to keep up. That is why in season 11 of the podcast we are going to delve into some of those specialist areas that you may have overlooked.
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Digital's top tens
In our tenth season of the Boagworld Show we are going to embrace the idea of top ten lists. Love them or hate them lists are everywhere online. We are going to go list crazy and create our own top ten lists for everything from coding tools to usability tips.
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People & Projects
Season 9 of the Boagworld Show focuses on people and projects. Not web celebs or ground breaking internet startups. We are going to talk to real people working on everyday websites. People like you.
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Digital Adaptation
Season 8 of the Boagworld Show takes a look at the bigger picture. It's no longer enough for an organisation to have a website and Facebook page. We are moving away from the industrial era into a new digital economy. But what does that mean for business and how does it effect us as web professionals?
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The great debates
Season 7 of the Boagworld show focuses on the great debates raging in the web design community. Whether it be responsive design vs native apps or flat design vs skeuomorphism, we are going to investigate the facts and discuss the options.
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Get your questions answered
Season 6 of the Boagworld show is all about your questions. From questions about dealing with senior management to advice about the latest design technique, we are here to help. If we can’t answer a question, then we will find somebody who can.
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Pick of the Posts
Season 5 of the boagworld show highlights the best web design advice out there. From posts that have become timeless classics to the latest innovations, each Thursday we will highlight articles worthy of your attention and share our thoughts on each.
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Awesome apps, terrific tools
There are great apps and tools being released everyday to help those involved in the web do their job better. With so much out there, its hard to find the best tool for the job. That is why season 4 focuses on awesome apps and terrific tools. Vote now, for apps you want to see featured.
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Client Centric Web Design
Client Centric Web Design will propose a different model for building websites, one where the web designer and client work in a collaborative relationship. This introduction to an alternative approach to web design results in better sites, more satisfying projects and happier clients.
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Case study in best practice
In this season we turn the theoretical into the practical when we take all we have learn't in the past and apply it to the rebuild of boagworld.com.
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Building sites for return on investment
In this season of Boagworld we explore ways that your website can begin to pay for itself. We look at how to move your site from being a drain on resources to a key component in your business strategy. Subjects include: developing business objectives, measuring successes, creating positive user experiences, implementing calls to action, refining your site and marketing effectively.
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Classic shows
The original Boagworld Podcast ran for over 200 episodes and was the first podcast on web design. Aimed at those who design, develop and run websites, it won many awards and grew rapidly from its humble beginnings in 2005. We reinvented the show in 2010 but the old episodes have been kept online and redefined as 'classic episodes'.