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  • Aarron Walter on designing for emotion

    To mark today's launch of Designing for Emotion, Mandy Brown, co-founder and editor of A Book Apart, talks to Aarron Walter, user experience design lead for MailChimp, about finding the right personality for your product
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  • Jeff Veen on Typekit and web fonts

    He left Google to found one of the guiding forces of the web font revolution. Typekit’s CEO Jeff Veen chats to Tom May about how beautiful typography is opening up a new world of options to designers and changing the face of the web
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  • Scott Belsky on the Behance Network

    Scott Belsky, founder of Behance, talks to Oliver Lindberg to explain why creatives should have a personal portfolio site and be on his network, how to market yourself efficiently and what needs to be done to fix crowdsourcing
    By Oliver Lindberg on

  • Dries Buytaert on Drupal

    On the eve of next week's DrupalCon, Dries Buytaert, the creator of Drupal, talks to Oliver Lindberg about developing and designing for Drupal and the future of the content management system
    By Oliver Lindberg on

  • Keir Whitaker and Elliot Jay Stocks

    Keir Whitaker and Elliot Jay Stocks are going on the road next week to present evenings of informal discussions with prominent web folk around the UK. Oliver Lindberg catches up with them to find out what's different about Insites
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  • Steve Krug on DIY usability testing

    Nine years after the seminal Don’t Make Me Think, usability consultant Steve Krug has written another book that very few people know about – but everybody should. He tells Oliver Lindberg why DIY usability testing is so beneficial
    By Oliver Lindberg on | 1 comment

  • Brad Smith

    In August, former “MySpace killer” Virb relaunched as a slick website builder and host. Oliver Lindberg talks to co-founder and CEO Brad Smith about the change of direction and future developments
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  • Brian Kalma

    Online retailer Zappos is known for its fanatical dedication to customer service. Brian Kalma, director of user experience, tells Oliver Lindberg about branding, Happy Cog’s redesign of the site and why a third of the employees are on Twitter
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  • Irene Au

    Whatever you may think of it, Google’s approach to design is certainly different. Irene Au, the company’s director of user experience, talks to Oliver Lindberg about data-driven design decisions, achieving consistency and user research
    By Oliver Lindberg on

  • Pete Cashmore

    Launched from Pete Cashmore’s home in 2005, Mashable now gets 5m page views a month and is poised to overtake TechCrunch. He talks to Oliver Lindberg about redesigns, micro-content and joining the social conversation
    By Oliver Lindberg on

  • Jake Nickell

    Threadless uses the power of crowdsourcing to sell more than 100,000 T-shirts a month. Company founder Jake Nickell talks to Oliver Lindberg about how he turned a simple hobby into a multimillion dollar business empire
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  • Media Temple: Chris Lea

    Media Temple is arguably the most popular hosting company for digital creatives. Oliver Lindberg talks to Chris Lea, lead architect on social network Virb, which Media Temple acquired about a year ago
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  • OpenID creator David Recordon

    Six Apart’s David Recordon co-invented OpenID, which enables you to sign in to thousands of online services with the same digital identity. He talks to Oliver Lindberg about its latest developments
    By Oliver Lindberg on

  • Leo Laporte

    They call him the hardest working man in podcasting. Now he’s extended his TWiT empire to include a live, hi-res video stream. Oliver Lindberg talks to the one and only Leo Laporte about being the glue that holds together an online community
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  • Jack Dorsey

    Frequent downtimes recently sparked an intense online debate about the flaws of popular micro-blogging service Twitter. Oliver Lindberg catches up with its CEO and co-founder, Jack Dorsey, to discuss the company’s plans to make it more stable
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  • Jim Buckmaster

    Online classified advertising site Craigslist is run more as a public service than for profit – a philosophy that’s led to war with eBay. Oliver Lindberg talks to chief executive Jim Buckmaster about one of the internet’s most unlikely success stories
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  • Amazon Web Services: Jeff Barr

    Amazon Web Services consume more bandwidth than all of Amazon’s global sites combined. Evangelist Jeff Barr explains who’s using them and why they’ve become so popular with businesses of all sizes
    By Tom May on

  • Martin Stiksel

    They’ve been fairly quiet since the high-profile acquisition by CBS, but this doesn’t mean that Last.fm’s team hasn’t been busy. Oliver Lindberg talks to Martin Stiksel, the co-founder and chief controlling officer of Last.fm
    By Oliver Lindberg on | 1 comment
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