August de los Reyes , User Experience Director for Microsoft Surface , will be in Melbourne on Tuesday, September 23, before keynoting Web Directions in Sydney . August is a great speaker , and a really nice guy too and has kindly agreed to speak at CHISIG...

I love this Live Messenger Campaign highlighted by fellow User Experience Evangelist from the Netherlands, Martin Tirion . Built in Silverlight, it's a great example of one of the oldest user engagement tricks in the book: for a small action from the...

I'll be teaching a half-day workshop, plus delivering an Advanced Session at Oz-IA in September. If you haven't been to Oz-IA before, it's definitely the friendliest conference of the year. Held in Sydney every year by Eric Scheid , it's a great (and...

Here are the details for my sessions at Tech.Ed Australia : My Breakout Sessions The art and science behind creating a great user experience ARC301 03/09/2008 12:00-13:15 A great user experience means more than drop shadows and rounded corners. It might...

More info has surfaced about the RFID work underway for Tech.Ed Australia , including the Silverlight visualisation I've been working on (in my spare time...). http://www.itnews.com.au/News/82864,silverlight-animations-back-microsoft-rfid-network.aspx...

Pandy from Alpha Computer Consultants tells me they are looking for a contract trainer in Expression and Silverlight: “Silverlight-Expression developer required for contract training position with Australia’s leading Publishing Training Provider...

Thanks to Jonas for sending me a link to this video of Billy Hollis presenting a great WPF business application: Billy Hollis on Getting Smart with WPF The first ~20 minutes of the video walks you through the UI design and talks about how various WPF...

Coming from a background in old-school application design, designing for motion is something I didn't have to worry about much in the past - except for maybe the occasional sliding/expanding panel. However, in these days of 'one-page websites', animation...