Design Festival Podcast #12: ZURB, jQuery UI, and Charlie The Unicorn

Hey guys, sorry for the slight delay this week — I’ve been a bit sick over the last few days but the cast is finally here, and it’s another treat. For this episode I had a chat with Matt Kelly from ZURB, the interaction design and strategy studio behind web apps like Notable and Verify. Matt and I discuss jQuery UI, the library ZURB uses extensively for their web apps.

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• Design Festival Podcast #12: ZURB, jQuery UI, and Charlie The Unicorn (MP3, 47:17, 45.5 MB)

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Episode Summary

Presenters

• Simon Pascal Klein (@klepas)
• Guest: Matt Kelly (@mkelly12)

Content Rundown

• Intro: Matt and ZURB
• What is jQuery UI?
• Matt’s talk from jQuery Boston
• Matt’s 4 Maxims: “do no harm, understand response times, communicate, and anticipation
• User feedback in applications — adding delays to interactions
• Pre-​​fetching data to improve responsiveness — inspiration from the Flash days?
• Projects being worked on: Bounce, Notable, Verify, and more…
• ZURB’s Playground — experiments and ideas
• Recommendations of the week

Recommendations

• Matt: GitHub’s new native official Mac client(!).
• Pascal: Nothing particular — I mention Zero Day again. Oh, actually, I’ve been listening to a new recent new psy album titled “900” by Brujo’s Bowl. You can preview the album online and download ektoplazm​.com. (And it’s kindly licensed under a CC license.)

Also of interest and relevant to the podcast, Matt has since written an article on the pros and cons of stacking divs for faster interactions. The ZURB team writes regularly on their blog, as well as for Smashing Magazine.

Audio Transcript

Workin’ on it. Will be added soon.