A number of usability industry luminaries, plus me, are speaking on an AIMIA panel entitled "Customer Experience: The Future of Usability" in Sydney on Dec 3. I plan to talk about emerging pressures on user-centred-design: faster design, design by everyone...

Thanks to all who came along to my "Silverlight Splashes Out" session at Digital Media Festival in Sydney this week. Here are the slides: http://www.slideshare.net/shanemo/silverlight-splashes-out/ Blurb "Whether you're animating 2D objects...

New Horizons have posted details of their Expression/Silverlight designer training courses . So that's two organisations providing Expression/Silverlight training for designers: (Note I've made some changes to the schedule - 26/Nov) New Horizons...

Thursday is World Usability Day and there are Australian Events in Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney. The theme this year is healthcare.

Nick Ellery is doing a great job putting together the "MIX on campus" events in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. MIX on campus is where we show some of the latest MS stuff to students, academia and, well, anyone who wants to come along. There'll be a heavy...

Apologies to all those who have been waiting too long for this, but we finally have designer-specific training available in Expression and SIlverlight here in Australia! (Note I've made some changes to the schedule - 26/Nov) Alpha Computer consultants...

Nominations are open for Australia's interactive industry night-of-nights, the 14th annual AIMIA awards, which Microsoft is sponsoring. Nominations close on Friday the 9th, so get along and nominate your work.

Some guys at virtualhosting.com have produced a list of their " Top 100 User-centered Blogs ", and I seemed to have just scraped in. Also on the list are: My old colleague from Hiser , now at Frog Design , Gabriel White , and My new colleague from Microsoft...

I am leading a discussion around my “Design-led Innovation” talk for a Melbourne UX Community of Practice on 22 nd of November from 6pm. Venue: Boral 676 Lorimer St, Port Melbourne (map attached) All welcome Design–led Innovation Just when we think we...