Brian Dusablon

Accessibility: Don’t Be a Jerk

Apparently, I’m not very good about promoting the podcast Judy and I record once or twice a month, The ToolBar.

We recorded our tenth episode before the end of 2011. The previous show had been about usability. This one was on accessibility, wish special guest Diane Elkins of Artisan E-Learning.

Ten episodes in six months – not too shabby. We’ll be picking it back up at the end of January after Judy returns from ASTD TechKnowledge.

Enjoy!

Usability: Don’t Be a Moron

Judy and I welcomed Julie Dirksen, a.k.a. UsableLearning, to The ToolBar to talk about usability, the learner experience, and to pimp her awesome new book, Design For How People Learn: Voices That Matter. It was a great show, with some great drink choices. Check it out.

This One Time… At DevLearn…

Oh, hey, look what Judy and I did a few weeks back: our 8th episode of The ToolBar.

It was a fun show. We talked about DevLearn. I drank the lovely Saint Arnold Santo.

I’m really looking forward to recording this week with special guest, Julie Dirksen, Instructional Designer, usability guru and author of Design for How People Learn. I wonder what she’ll be drinking?

This Week in Browsing

Required Reading (from Jane Bozarth)

Congratulations Typekit

Please Don’t Call Them Avatars… Unless They Are Avatars – Word.

Can I Use – Great resource. Thanks Judy!

Learning 2011 Conference BackchannelDavid Kelly does a great job with these collections

Omnifocus and Siri

Human Centered Design Toolkit – For years, businesses have used human-centered design to develop innovative solutions. Why not apply the same approach to overcome challenges in the nonprofit world? (via Jason)

Designing the Invisible

How To Think And Communicate Visually

Team Treehouse – What do you want to learn today?

Now Entering the Decade of Learning – Great link from Chad

Kurt Hanks – Paradigm mapping. Awesomness (via The Beard)

When Are You Going to Learn?

When are you going to learn that HTML5 is not the technology you want to use for authoring content! It may be how you want to deliver it, but those two things aren’t necessarily attached to one another.

- Reuben Tozman – “DevLearn