Nice to see "Technology Usability Specialist" highlighted on the ABC's "Ace Day Jobs" site. Technology Usability Specialist I have to agree with Oliver , one of the best parts of the job is the variety - I personally have worked for organisation ranging from defence to retailers to...

If you are a designer working on a Silverlight 1.0 project, or if you are working with designers, check out the video by Arturo Toledo entitled "Workflow of Silverlight with Expression and Visual Studio from the recent " Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter " event in the US. Arturo talks about...

Gosh I love the serendipity that is Radio National . Today on Artworks they interviewed a 'Concept Designer'. This guy (Iain) did conceptual mockups for movies like Ratatouille and the Star Wars prequels. The idea is to give the director a vision of how the movie will look before production starts. In...

Catching up on my reading, today I finally read this Microsoft Watch article on the Office 2007 redesign: How Microsoft Wrapped the "Ribbon" in a Bow . Among other things, it talks about how the Office team placed early (way pre-Beta) copies with testers in Fortune 500 companies in the Seattle, with...