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O'Reilly's Mary Treseler sits down with Andrew Hinton, an information architect at The Understanding Group and author of the recently released O’Reilly book "Understanding Context." Their conversation included a discussion of information architecture’s role in the context of the IoT, the complexities of context, and the well-debated “everyone should learn to code” argument.

Design's Role Is To Bridge Context Gaps

O'Reilly's Mary Treseler chats with Phil Gilbert, GM of design at IBM about how he's helping to lead the transformation to a design-first company within IBM.

IBM is Banking on Design's ROI

O'Reilly's Mary Treseler chats with Scott Jenson, who is currently developing the Physical Web Project with the Chrome team at Google, about empathy, interaction on demand, and Google’s Physical Web Project.

Empathy: The Designer's Superpower

O'Reilly's Mary Treseler talks with information architect Jorge Arango about the state of IA and the importance of designers' understanding of context and perspective.

Information Architecture's Role in UX Design

O'Reilly's Mary Treseler chats with PARC's Mike Kuniavsky about PARC’s work on IoT and the mindset shift the IoT will require.

Designing for Ecosystems: Making Meaningful IoT Products and Services

O'Reilly's Nick Lombardi chats with Laura Klein, designer, researcher, engineer, and author of "UX for Lean Startups" and the popular design blog Users Know.

Design for Success: Manage Business and User Goals

Jon Bruner and Mike Loukides talk about the classical music publishing industry and how it's being disrupted by projects like the Petrucci Music Library (http://imslp.org/) that make public-domain scores available online.

The future of classical music

Jim Stogdill, Edd Dumbill and Roger Magoulas have a conversation about in-memory databases and the impact on real time analysis. Leave questions and comments for us at http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/05/talking-about-in-memory.html

Talking about in-memory

Jon Bruner, Mike Loukides and Jim Stogdill from O'Reilly Radar muse on the return of software to the physical world.

Software and the physical world

Jon Bruner, Jim Stogdill, and Roger Magoulas talk about anthropology in big data, advances in JavaScript, searching for ancient civilizations, the importance of context, and good sites for checking the weather.

Related blog post: http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/06/radar-podcast-anthropology-big-data-and-the-importance-of-context.html

Anthropology, big data, and the importance of context

Jon Bruner, Jim Stogdill, and Roger Magoulas talk about what's been on their minds this week: the NSA's surveillance programs, what defense contractors will do with their technology as defense budgets dry up, and a Californian who isn't doing what you think he's doing with hydroponics.

For more on these topics, and links to the things we talked about, see http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/06/radar-podcast-the-internet-of-things-prism-and-defense-technology-that-goes-civilian.html.

The Internet of Things, PRISM, and defense technology that goes civilian

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