ZURBsoapbox
ZURB is hosting a lecture series for entrepreneurs, designers, and managers to speak with an audience of likeminded professionals.
Past Soapbox Events
Photo courtesy of Nate BoltNate Bolt
New way of UX Research = RemoteBlog Summary | Podcast
About Nate Bolt: Currently as El Presidente at Bolt|Peters Nate has overseen more than 200 remote user research studies for Sony, Oracle, HP, Greenpeace, Electronic Arts, and many others. Beginning in 2003 he led the creation of the first moderated remote user research software, Ethnio, which is being used around the world now to recruit hundreds of thousands of live participants for research. You might have heard Nate speak at Interaction Design Association, read his A List Apart article, or read his Rosenfeld Media book.
Luke Wroblewski
Forget about your desktop. Design for Mobile First!Blog Summary | Podcast
About LukeW: Formerly as Chief Design Architect at Yahoo!. Luke worked on forward-looking integrated customer experiences on the web, mobile, TV, and beyond. Luke is the author of two popular web design books: Web Form Design (2008) and Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability (2002). Luke is consistently a top-rated speaker at conferences and companies around the world, and is the founder and principal of LukeW Interface Designs which features his popular blog Functioning Form.
Bill Scott
Get your team to design like NetflixBlog Summary | Podcast
About Bill Scott: Bill has designed and engineered products for 25+ years. As the Director of UI Engineering at Netflix Bill & his team built the online movie delivery experience for web, TV and most recently, the Apple iPad. Bill Scott is currently the VP of Product Engineering at Meebo.
Alex Faaborg
How was Firefox designed? What's next for Firefox?Blog Summary | Podcast
About Alex Faaborg: As the Principal Designer behind Firefox at Mozilla. Alex focuses on the visual and interactive design of the browser. He also contributes to Mozilla Labs, which explores the next stage in the evolution of the Web and its long term future. He has extensive experience in artificial intelligence, user interface design, and cognitive science and is a graduate of the MIT Media Laboratory.
Justin Kan
Justin.tv: One camera broadcast to a website with 35 million usersBlog Summary | Podcast
About Justin Kan: At midnight on March 19, 2007 Justin Kan attached a webcam to his cap and started streaming his life through online video via a laptop-backpack system. He decided he would stream continuous live video and audio 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Justin became a global media sensation in months. Justin.tv now attracts more than 30 million users worldwide which produce and watch live video from around the world.
Richard White
$250,000 Site Sale on eBay, Killing Goats for 6 Hours, and a Healthy "No"Blog Summary | Podcast
About Richard: Richard White is a founder and CEO of UserVoice. He is driven by a passion for building simple tools that improve productivity and make peoples lives easier. UserVoice does just that, its a feature suggestion box that actually works. It helps companies empower their customers to come together and vote up the best ideas for improving the product.
John Marshall
Van Halen, Marriage and Crucial MistakesBlog Summary | Podcast
About John: John Marshall is an entrepreneur with over 20 years experience and quite a few companies under his belt. His latest startup is MarketMotive, which he describes as "a company focused on helping companies get the maximum from their online marketing." Market Motive teaches a complete set of step by step programs for web analytics, SEO, paid search, online press and more. John is a former CEO and Founder of web-analytics-success story ClickTracks Analytics, which was acquired by Lyris Inc. in 2007.
Dave Sifry
Lessons learned from Technorati to OffBeat GuidesBlog Summary | Podcast
About Dave: An entrepreneur and blogospehere icon with over 20 years experience and five companies under his belt. He is the founder of Technorati- the largest blog seach engine in the world. His latest start-up is Offbeat Guides which he describes as "making absurdly simple personalized travel guides for over 30,000 destinations around the world".
Bart Decrem
Tapping a Vein: Lessons from an iPhone App StartupBlog Summary | Podcast
About Bart: Current founder of Tapulous, ZURB originally met Bart when he was founder and CEO of Flock, the social media web browser. Prior to that, Bart toppled Internet Explorer's web browser monopoly by getting Firefox into the world while heading marketing and business development at the Mozilla Foundation.
Luke Wroblewski
Product Excellence PrinciplesBlog Summary | Podcast
About Luke: Current Senior Director of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo, Inc., Luke oversees the world's most trafficked Web page (the Yahoo! homepage) among other initiatives for this Web giant. He is also founder and principal of LukeW Interface Designs which features his popular blog, Functioning Form.
