• Episodes
  • Archive
    • How To Subscribe
    • iTunes
    • Overcast
    • TuneIn
    • Pocket Casts
    • Email
    • RSS
  • Twitter
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact
Menu

All of the Above

A Defunct Podcast About Design, Code, and Learning
  • Episodes
  • Archive
  • Subscribe ⌄
    • How To Subscribe
    • iTunes
    • Overcast
    • TuneIn
    • Pocket Casts
    • Email
    • RSS
  • Twitter
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact
Past Episodes
34: None of the Above | The Hiatus Episode
33: Vector v. Raster, with Sean Doran
32: The Web Design Equation, with Sean Doran
31: Flipped Classrooms, with Bryan M Brush
30: Memories, with Sam Bantner
29: Community, with Joe Darnell
28: Fitness
27: WWDC 2015
26: Travel
25: Comedy, with 3G3Q
24: Storytelling, with Laura Masters
23: Apple Watch
22: Ideas, Beers, and Broken Hearts
21: Multimedia in Education
20: Context is King
019: Interior Design, with Hillary Hutchings
Bonus: Do You Trust Us?
018: Concerts, with Zack Cramp
017: Maps, with Graham Welling
016: Magazines, with Jacob Tender
015: Games
014: Email
013: The Cloud
012: Voice as UI, with Scott Ryan-Hart
011: Personalities
010: Retrospective
009: Writing, with John Saddington
008: eBooks, with Connor Mason
007: Messaging
006: Calendars

all-of-the-above-episode-017-maps-with-graham-welling.jpg

017: Maps, with Graham Welling

March 24, 2015

In this episode:

We talk about loci, pathfinding algorithms, and wayfinding–not necessarily in that order. 

SUBSCRIBE WITH

iTunes • TuneIn • Pocket Casts • RSS


Show Notes & Links

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

fail-under.jpg

Feedback

How did you enjoy this episode? We hope it was great, but we'd love to know what you thought either way.

Take the Survey
Episode 016: Magazines, with Jacob Tender

Episode 016: Magazines, with Jacob Tender

016: Magazines, with Jacob Tender

March 17, 2015

In this episode:

We sit down with guest Jacob Tender to talk about what's really a magazine, how can magazine companies transition to a digital world, and the role of major publishers in a self-publishing world.

SUBSCRIBE WITH

iTunes • TuneIn • Pocket Casts • RSS


About Our guest: Jacob Tender

He's spent most of five years writing about music-related things for publications like Under The Gun Review, Substream Magazine, Mind Equals Blown, What Culture!, and more.

Jacob currently writes on his own site Curbside.Audio and works with Other People Records on their publicity efforts.  Here are the two bands from Other People Records that Jacob mentions in the show: Avaberee and Tommy Boys. Also, if you listen close enough, you can hear Jacob's backing vocals on Shapes & Colors new EP, On Display. He can also be found on Twitter @CurbsideAudio.


Show Notes & Links

Bryan: Defining the Medium (starts at 4:55)

Cosmopolitan

FACT: The #1 Women's Magazine

Paste Magazine

Music, Movies, TV, Games, Comedy, Books, Design, Tech, Drink and Geek

North American Whitetail

It's exactly what it sounds

Ducks Unlimited

Too many ducks!

The Book Loft of German Village

Too many books!

The History of Magazines

Thank you Johann Rist

YouTube

Nickelodeon Magazine PLEASE

FastCompany

MacWorld is no longer a magazine

The Future of Digital Magazine Publishing

Dora Santos Silva tears it up

PBS

A book about starting a current-day magazine.


Sam: Being the Medium (Starts at 12:04)

FORBES

How old school publishers can win in the digital age

THE GUARDIAN

Who says print is dead? Well…

WIRED

Are digital magazines dead? Well...

Zinio

A digital “magazine” publisher

The Editor’s Blog

What does an editor actually do?


Sean: Follow the writer (Starts at 26:15)

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

New York Post

Spin Media changed things

New York Post

Spin Media slashes like a slasher

Re/code

Companies buying companies buying companies

Wayback Machine

Under the Gun Review on April 30, 2011

YouTube

BASEketball Quote

The Wall Street Journal

Macklemore uses major labels for what they’re good for

MacStories

The Viticci!

Six Colors

The Snell!

Daring Fireball

The Gruber!

9to5 Mac

The Gurman!

Wikipedia

Evolutionary Economics

The Incomparable

Jason Snell’s Podcast Network

YouTube

John Gruber, Daring Fireball - XOXO Festival (2014)

MacStories

Life After Cancer by Federico Viticci

Daring Fireball

Sean get his 15 seconds of fame


Outro: Your Favorite Magazines (Starts at 43:02)

PASTE MAGAZINE

Music, Movies, TV, Games, Comedy, Books, Design, Tech, Drink and Geek

Skateboarder Magazine

Nose Grind to Kickflip to Casper Slide

The Plug

  • Murder Kroger
  • Mystery Can
  • The Candy Tournament

Boys’ Life Magazine

Eagle Scouts

GamePro

R.I.P.

PC World

Masqueraded as GamePro

Alternative Press

Music, man

Rolling Stone

A classic

Backpacker Magazine

A Ghost Among Us


Rate us on iTunes

Did you enjoy this episode? If so, we have one favor to ask–it would mean the world to us if you'd rate us on iTunes. Feeling generous? Also write a review for other people to read–you can convince people to listen!

Rate Us Now
Episode 015: Games

Episode 015: Games

015: Games

March 10, 2015

In this episode:

We explore what it takes to make educational games enjoyable and beneficial, how the digital and physical worlds are colliding, and what role single player games have in a multi-player world.

SUBSCRIBE WITH

iTunes • TuneIn • Pocket Casts • RSS


Show Notes & Links

Intro

Benjamin Crowell

The Motion of Falling Objects

The Guardian

A–Z Modern Office Jargon

App Store

Overcast is our podcast player of choice


Bryan: Gamification in Learning (Starts at 2:48)

App Store

Candy Crush Saga

Wikipedia

Gamification

Wikipedia

Gamification of Learning

Wikipedia

Chex Quest

NeoGAF

Chex Quest port for Mac

App Store

DuoLingo

Wikipedia

Operation Neptune

App Store

Math Blaster

Instructional Design

The ADDIE Model


Sean: Connecting the Physical and Digital World (Starts at 11:37)

Geocaching

Join the anytime, anywhere real-world adventure.

Amazon

Anki DRIVE

YouTube

Apple WWDC 2013 Keynote — Anki DRIVE

Amazon

Golem Arcana

Amazon

Heroclix

Wikipedia

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater

iTunes

Goldfinger — Hang-Ups

Kingmakers

Board game parlour


Sam: Is a Single Player Game truly enjoyable? (Starts at 22:25)

YouTube

Rockwell — Somebody’s Watching Me

Citizen Four

The Edward Snowden Film

BoardGameGeek

The Top 100 European Games

Crave Online

10 Funny VHS Board Game Videos

Game Genie

Stuck in 2009

YouTube

Getting your Sega Dreamcast online — in 2015

Wikipedia

LAN Parties

Natures Secret Larder

Dogwood

BBC

South Korean man dies after a marathon game session

Gamespot

Titan fall is pretty much just a multiplayer game

Reddit

Stop looking at my screens

Twitch

Watching people play video games. Online.

Riot Games

League of Legends

PC Gamer

Scholarships for League of Legends players

Telltale Games

“They make visually beautiful games” — Sam Bantner

App Store

Monument Valley

App Store

Plants vs. Zombies

IGN

Monument Valley gets a boost from House of Cards

Appalachian Trail

Bryan and Sam will hike this.

App Store

Oregon Trail


FEEDBACK

How did you enjoy this episode? We hope it was great, but we'd love to know what you thought—both the good and the bad.

Take the Survey
Episode 014: Email

Episode 014: Email

014: Email

March 3, 2015

In This Episode: 

Bryan, Sam, and Sean spend some time discussing email and how it’s one of the more annoying forms of communication. They take a  look at when, if ever, email is the best form of communication, how its purpose has changed over time, and whether it can be viewed as a disposable service.

SUBSCRIBE WITH

iTunes • TuneIn • Pocket Casts • RSS


While you listen, Can you do us a favor by taking a quick survey?


SHOW NOTES & LINKS

INTRO

Google Maps

Columbus to Nashville


Bryan: The Communication Pyramid (Starts at 2:01)

43 Folders/Merlin Mann

Inbox Zero

Analog(ue)

#8: Work-Life Tetris

Analog(ue)

#11: That Thank You Has Expired

YouTube

Too Many Cooks

Chron

Importance of Documenting Verbal Conversations

Xink

Your Email Signature — 101 Do’s and Don’ts

ClickMail

+K for Email Expertise

Inc.

Etiquette is important

Sandwich Video

Homepage

Adam Lisagor

The driving force behind the sandwich

YouTube

Sandwich Video for TrueCar (not CarMax)

YouTube

Sandwich Video for Coin

Vimeo

Sandwich Video for 1Password

YouTube

Sandwich Video for Slack


Sean: The Role of Email (Starts at 11:50)

TripAdvisor

Email in China

Dictionary.com

Electronic Mail Address

RoadRunner

The fastest email on the net

MySpace

Justin Timberlake

Gmail

Storage Limit

Gmail

Labels

Dave’s Computers Inc.

OS X’s Mail.app vs. Gmail

How-To-Geek

POP3 vs. IMAP vs. Exchange


Sam: Email is a Disposable Service (Starts at 18:14)

Urban Dictionary

Burner Phone

Hushed

Your private phone app

Comodo

Public and Private Keys

Disposable email services:

  • Mailinator
  • Guerrilla Mail
  • 10 Minute Mail

Hushmail

Email encrypted end-to-end

Google

Edit email headers

Huffington Post

Email spoofing

Mailgun

The Email Service for Developers

App Store

OneReceipt

Unroll.me

Clean up your inbox

Amazon

Quilted Northern Ultra Plush Bath Tissue, 48 Double Rolls

Bionic

T.E.A.R.A.W.A.Y.T.R.O.U.S.E.R.S.

Mailbox

Quickly swipe messages to your archive or trash and scan entire conversations in a chat-like view. 

CNN Money

Google buys Sparrow

App Store

OWA

App Store

Microsoft Outlook


Feedback

How did you enjoy this episode? We hope it was great, but we'd love to know what you thought—both the good and the bad.

Take the Survey
Episode 013: The Cloud

Episode 013: The Cloud

013: The Cloud

February 24, 2015

In This Episode:

We explore what the cloud really is, how all the things on the Internet are crazy, and weigh the pros and cons for education's reliance on third parties for their friendly neighborhood cloud necessities.

SUBSCRIBE WITH

iTunes • TuneIn • Pocket Casts • RSS


Show Notes & Links

Intro

Mashable at 0:45

This fierce blizzard has made February Boston’s snowiest month ever


Sean: Tackling the Cloud (Starts at 2:09)

Gizmodo at 2:37

What is “the Cloud” — and Where is it?

PC World at 3:12

iCloud vs. iTunes backups: The crucial differences that affect your data

Research Agenda in Cloud Technologies at 3:55

Information Architects (iA) at 4:18

iCloud’s previous over-simplification of file hierarchy

The Economist at 4:55

Jennifer Lyn Morone incorporates herself

Quartz at 5:00

You own it, but Facebook can still use it

YouTube Help Center at 5:18

This new rule about paid product placements caused a stir

Ars Technica at 5:30

Old article about Facebook’s “deleted” photo challenge

Snapchat’s Corporate Blog at 5:45

How Snaps are Stored and Deleted

Jennifer Mack at 5:50

How the Library of Congress receives Twitter’s firehose, and what that really means for deleted tweets

Terms of Service; Didn’t Read (TOS;DR) at 6:00

A nice project that aims to help people with long Terms of Service agreements by giving them grades

Wikipedia at 6:30

Cloud computing

Apple at 6:50

Free hour-long workshops

Apple at 7:00

iCloud

iGeeksBlog at 7:20

Step 8: Do a satanic ritual

Apple Support at 7:42

My Photo Stream FAQ

Connected at 8:26

#25: The Microsoft of Ourselves

Apple at 8:40

iCloud Drive

Apple Support at 9:20

OS X Yosemite: Manage iCloud storage

YouTube at 10:19

Surprise.

Wikipedia at 11:00

The Rat Pack

Dropbox Help Center at 11:00

Packrat a.k.a. Extended Version History

Hacker News at 11:33

HIPPA-compliant servers are a can of worms

All Things D at 12:27

Those Dropbox checkmarks were hacks. Yosemite made them official. Some people don’t like it.

Stack Exchange at 13:30

Users need feedback… man.

OS X Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) at 13:30

Post-Show Follow-Up: There is some visual feedback when your Mac can’t connect to the Internet to upload the file to iCloud Drive, but it varies in helpfulness depending on your Finder view:

  • Icons
  • List
  • Columns
  • Good ole’ Cover Flow

Microsoft Office Online at 14:00

Adobe Creative Cloud at 14:02

iCloud Beta at 14:04

Now anyone can use Pages, Numbers, and Keynote for iCloud

Wired at 15:28

Mat Honan gets hacked — Apple and Amazon were accomplices

Medium at 15:31

Naoki Hiroshima’s @N gets hacked — PayPal and GoDaddy were accomplices


Sam: Cloud of Crazy Things (Starts at 17:04)

IFTTT at 17:06

If this, then that — and that, and this, and those

IFTTT’s Do, Do, and Do at 17:14

We are manure, I mean.. mature

Conditional Statements at 17:50

if (podcast = All of the Above) {
    rating = "5";
}

Text to Escape at 18:21

Skedaddle as a Service

Text (sans hashtag) to change your Hue’s hue at 18:50

Urban Dictionary: qq

Amazon at 19:00

Philip’s Hue Starter Pack

IFTTT’s Channels at 19:16

166 as of February 24, 2015

Wikipedia at 20:30

Internet of Things (IoT) a.k.a. Cloud of Crazy Things

CNET at 20:44

Intel and Samsung loves them some IoT

Vessyl at 21:07

VESSYL AUTOMATICALLY KNOWS AND TRACKS EVERYTHING YOU DRINK. EVERYTHING.

Beam Toothbrush at 22:26

We weren’t joking

YouTube at 23:04

Surprise.

App Store at 23:35

Beam Brush

YouTube at 23:46

Surprise.

Computer or Fridge? at 24:35

This is a challenge

Amazon.co.uk at 25:58

Ladies and Gentlemen, the iKettle


Bryan: Third Party clouds and Education (Starts at 26:35)

Google Scholar at 26:48

Cost benefit analysis of cloud computing in education

Episode 008: eBooks, with Connor Mason at 27:21

Digitize all the things.

Wikipedia at 28:44

Learning Management Systems (LMS)

Blackboard at 28:58

It happens.

seanwes at 30:00

Build Your Platform – Not Someone Else’s

Adventures in Adjunct Teaching at 30:40

This person really hates Blackboard.

Google Chrome at 32:30

Googley education

Procedia: Social and Behavioral Sciences at 33:22

Percentages for cloud usage in different Industrial Sectors and Services Pie Chart

International Journal of Information Management at 34:10

Cloud computing for education: A new dawn?

Chromebooks in Education at 35:44

Affordable. Easy management. Classroom impact.

Education Week at 36:55

Increase funds for the U.S. Department of Education — part of it going towards technology

Apple at 36:57

iPad in Education

Ecosystem Lock-in at 39:20

Hey… lmgtfy!


Outro (at 39:35)

Episode 012: Voice as UI, with Scott Ryan-Hart at 39:45

Soylent at 41:45

“Each serving of Soylent provides maximum nutrition with minimum effort.”

All of the Above Feedback

All of the Above on iTunes

Episode 012: Voice as UI, with Scott Ryan-Hart

Episode 012: Voice as UI, with Scott Ryan-Hart

012: Voice as UI, with Scott Ryan-Hart

February 17, 2015

In This Episode:

We explore how our vocal chords control our electronic devices, and why the current implementations are leaving a bad taste in our mouth. Scott Ryan-Hart joins us as he is currently finishing up his Master's at Kent State University for User Experience Design. His thesis is about the mismatch between the user's mental model of Siri, and the conceptual model of Siri — and marketing's role in that.

Subscribe With

iTunes • TuneIn • Pocket Casts • RSS


Show Notes & Links

Intro

  • Kent State: Masters in User Experience Design
  • Wikipedia: Siri
  • Cult of Mac: Apple’s 1987 Vision of the Knowledge Navigator
  • The Wall Street Journal (2012): Siri’s fast adoption for certain things
  • The Wall Street Journal (2011): How Siri got it’s ‘tude
  • Daring Fireball: Siri Improvements
  • Journal of Network and Computer Applications (2008): Hands-free & Accessibility
  • TechBlog (2015): Full list of Siri commands
  • UXmas (2012): The 4 H’s of Writing Error Messages
  • The New York Times (2014): How One Boy With Autism Became BFF With Apple’s Siri

Bryan: Digital Assistants and their place in Education (Starts at 7:32)

Bryan Brush with a Blue Power Ring by Scott Ryan-Hart

  • Powerful Learning Network (2012): Teaching in the Age of Siri
  • Concordia Online Education (2013): Does Apple’s Siri Belong in the Classroom?
  • Amazon: A lovely TI–84 Graphing Calculator
  • The New Yorker (2005): The Old Man Effect — Records
  • Techdirt (2011): The Old Man Effect — Printing Press
  • Skwirk: Home appliances give us more time, but possibly more to do
  • Isaac Asimov: The Feeling of Power
  • Minecraft’s Official Site
  • Lego: Digital Designer
  • Photo: The Humans of Wall-E

Sam: Perceptive User Interface (Starts at 17:14)

Sam Bantner with an Orange Power Ring by Scott Ryan-Hart

  • Microsoft Research — Matthew Turk: Perceptual User Interfaces
  • Perceptual User Interfaces Group
  • Cooper (2012): The best interface is no interface
  • Definition: User Interface (UI)
  • Hongkiat (2013): 8 “Next-Gen” User Interfaces
  • Amazon: Mindflex — A brain controlled toy
  • UX Magazine (2012): Cognitive Load
  • Harvard: SUPPLE — Automatically generating personalized user interfaces
  • Wikipedia: Power Ring

Sean: Designing for Voice (Starts at 26:50)

Sean Doran with a Green Power Ring by Scott Ryan-Hart

  • TechBlog (2015): Full list of Siri commands
  • Medium (2014): Towards a New Information Architecture
  • UX Matters (2012): The Importance of Knowing User Intent
  • UX Magazine (2011): Learning Interfaces
  • Amazon Echo
  • Wikipedia: Natural Language Processing
  • Quora: Her & Siri
  • iMore (2014): How to make Siri not use the default Maps app for directions
  • Slack API
  • Facebook Developers
  • Quora: Does Siri have an API?
  • Gigaom (2012): Live by the API, Die by the API
  • Nuance: Dragon NaturallySpeaking
  • Lifehacker (2015): A week of voice
  • Apple: Voice Control
  • Android Origin (2015)Siri v. Cortana v. Google Now Different Languages
  • Gizmodo (2014): Siri v. Cortana v. Google Now Comparison (2014)
  • Wikipedia: Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Wikipedia: Guardians of the Universe
  • Wikipedia: Power Ring

Contact Scott Ryan-Hart

  • Twitter: Scott Ryan-Hart is @mmmmmpig
  • 20 Questions Tuesday

The Newsletter

Sign up with your email address to receive news and updates.

Unsubscribe at any time.

Thank you!
← Newer Posts Older Posts →

Copyright © 2015 All of the Above Podcast