16:24

Ep. 03 Feb 18, 2015

303 - Christian Manzella

Chicago Camps interviews Christian Manzella, a Speaker Mentor for Speaker Camp Seattle on February 28th. Christian is the VP of UX at Moz, an SEO software company in Seattle, and also the founder of GIANT, which holds multiple events each year. ========== About Christian Manzella Christian Manzella has been working in the internet for nearly 20 years, across multiple industries. Christian jokes that he’s had every role, both as a contributor and as a manager, that you can have in an internet-based business. After spending 10 years working on CRM and CMS systems in the automotive, marine and related industry space, he moved into eCommerce with companies like Lowe’s and BlueNile.com. Christian is currently, the VP of UX at Moz, an SEO software company in Seattle. He is also the founder of GIANT, a group that holds multiple small events and a large GIANT Conference in Charleston, SC each year, and has a blog at GiantUX.com Christian makes most of his contributions by trying to help others succeed and have a place to succeed, whether that is in speaking, writing, or other ways to participate in their profession and life. You can find Christian on twitter @cmanzella. About Chicago Camps Chicago Camps, LLC (chicagocamps.org) was founded in 2012. They plan multiple low cost, high-value events primarily in Chicago. ========== "In the Basteal" music written and produced and performed by Christian Lane | https://soundcloud.com/clane01 | @christianlane01 Simplecast - Publish your podcasts the easy way at Simplecast.fm. About Tent TalksChicago Camps hosts irregularly scheduled Tent Talks with people from all across the User Experience Design community, and beyond. Who really likes limits, anyway--If it's a cool idea, we'd love to hear about it and share it!What is a Tent Talk? That's a great question, we'd love to tell you.Tent Talks are short-form in nature, generally lasting from 10-20 minutes (ish) in a recorded format--we like to think of them as "S'mores-sized content" because that's pretty on-brand. Tent Talks can be a presentation on a topic, a live Q&A session about the work we do, or the work around the work we do, or really just about anything--we don't want to limit ourselves, or you.You should send along an idea or topic of your own so we can learn from you, as well! You don't have to be a published author or a professional speaker on a circuit to be good at your job, so please, put yourself forward, and let's have some fun, talk, and share your experience with others! About The Feed & The ThreadThe Feed & The Thread is a daily summary of UX articles found in the industry and some light-touch updates from the UX Community found in online forums. It's brief, and meant as a light-touch overview of what's happening across UX. 

21:58

Ep. 02 Feb 8, 2015

302 - Nishant Kothary

Chicago Camps interviews Nishant Kothary, Cofounder at Minky, author, and speaker. Nishant is also a Speaker Mentor at Speaker Camp Seattle on February 28th, 2015. His dog, Yoshi, is an internet celebrity. Well, sort of. ========== About Nishant Kothary After cutting his teeth as a Program Manager at Amazon.com on projects like Instant Video & the original Kindle, Nishant aka @rainypixels honed his multidisciplinary skills at Microsoft as a Web Strategist. His writings, and design and development work have been featured in Smashing Magazine, UXMag, MIX Online, The Techblock, Drawar, and many other sites and publications. He also enjoys speaking at conferences, and has delivered highly rated talks to audiences at SIGGRAPH, DUX, Smashing Conf, UX Munich, edUi, Dare, From the Front, and many others since the early 2000s. He and his wife quit their jobs in 2013 to start Minky, a design and technology company based in Seattle, WA. They spend every waking moment of their lives right now building a product together, with Nishant taking the occasional break to contribute a piece to his monthly-ish A List Apart column titled The Human Web. Follow @rainypixels at your own risk on Twitter and Instagram for a live, unedited serving of Nishant and his Weimaraner, T. Yoshi Munchakoopas. About Chicago Camps Chicago Camps, LLC (chicagocamps.org) was founded in 2012. They plan multiple low cost, high-value events primarily in Chicago. ========== "In the Basteal" music written and produced and performed by Christian Lane | https://soundcloud.com/clane01 | @christianlane01 Simplecast - Publish your podcasts the easy way at Simplecast.fm. About Tent TalksChicago Camps hosts irregularly scheduled Tent Talks with people from all across the User Experience Design community, and beyond. Who really likes limits, anyway--If it's a cool idea, we'd love to hear about it and share it!What is a Tent Talk? That's a great question, we'd love to tell you.Tent Talks are short-form in nature, generally lasting from 10-20 minutes (ish) in a recorded format--we like to think of them as "S'mores-sized content" because that's pretty on-brand. Tent Talks can be a presentation on a topic, a live Q&A session about the work we do, or the work around the work we do, or really just about anything--we don't want to limit ourselves, or you.You should send along an idea or topic of your own so we can learn from you, as well! You don't have to be a published author or a professional speaker on a circuit to be good at your job, so please, put yourself forward, and let's have some fun, talk, and share your experience with others! About The Feed & The ThreadThe Feed & The Thread is a daily summary of UX articles found in the industry and some light-touch updates from the UX Community found in online forums. It's brief, and meant as a light-touch overview of what's happening across UX. 

12:45

Ep. 01 Feb 7, 2015

301 - Marianne Sweeny

Chicago Camps interviews Marianne Sweeny, Principal at Daedalus Information Systems. Marianne is also a Speaker Mentor at Speaker Camp Seattle on February 28th, 2015. ========== About Marianne Sweeny Marianne Sweeny considers herself most fortunate to be able to combine her passions for search and the user experience. Through Daedalus Information Systems, Marianne works with companies of all sizes to help them make search technology work more effectively in achieving business goals and objectives with strategy first, then tactics. Prior to devoting herself full-time to Daedalus, Marianne was SR Search Strategist and Principal UX Consultant at Portent Inc. She built the search marketing and optimization practice for Ascentium, both digital marketing agencies headquartered in the Pacific Northwest. She is a frequent presenter at conferences on user experience and search-related topics. About Chicago Camps Chicago Camps, LLC (chicagocamps.org) was founded in 2012. They plan multiple low cost, high-value events primarily in Chicago. ========== "In the Basteal" music written and produced and performed by Christian Lane | https://soundcloud.com/clane01 | @christianlane01 Simplecast - Publish your podcasts the easy way at Simplecast.fm. About Tent TalksChicago Camps hosts irregularly scheduled Tent Talks with people from all across the User Experience Design community, and beyond. Who really likes limits, anyway--If it's a cool idea, we'd love to hear about it and share it!What is a Tent Talk? That's a great question, we'd love to tell you.Tent Talks are short-form in nature, generally lasting from 10-20 minutes (ish) in a recorded format--we like to think of them as "S'mores-sized content" because that's pretty on-brand. Tent Talks can be a presentation on a topic, a live Q&A session about the work we do, or the work around the work we do, or really just about anything--we don't want to limit ourselves, or you.You should send along an idea or topic of your own so we can learn from you, as well! You don't have to be a published author or a professional speaker on a circuit to be good at your job, so please, put yourself forward, and let's have some fun, talk, and share your experience with others! About The Feed & The ThreadThe Feed & The Thread is a daily summary of UX articles found in the industry and some light-touch updates from the UX Community found in online forums. It's brief, and meant as a light-touch overview of what's happening across UX.