May 2008 - Posts
There are a lot of creative students in Canada who are doing innovative work to improve people's life through interactive, visual, informational, and other aspects of User Experience Design. I invited them to introduce who they are and share their work
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EnergizeIT was a lot of fun and especially got the crowd energized during the demo competition after the keynote in the morning. I had the opportunity to design logos for all three demo competition teams in Expression Design 2 . I've never had any graphics
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Big congratulations to the following two Canadian teams making into the world finals! As they are packing their bags going to Paris, we wish them the best of luck! GreenNet from Simon Fraser University: 1 of 6 world finalists in Interface Design Robotree
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It's only two days away from our annual largest community event - EnergizeIT . I had an opportunity talking about the event on CP24 Homepage Show last night. In the 6 minutes video below, I talked about the "career in IT" focus at this year's
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I have exciting news! The first ever Silverlight User Group in Canada is having its first meeting in two weeks. The user group is targeted at both designers and developers who are interested in learning about Silverlight and how the two parties can work
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Hi Everyone! I'm giving a talk tomorrow at University of Waterloo Accelerator Centre. It's a joint event between Waterloo UX User Group and Infusion Angels Innovation Centre . I've organized my talk into three short stories to give you an overview of
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This seems to be a great opportunity for traditional design practitioners such as architects, visual , and industrial designers to learn about interaction design. TorCHI is inviting people to a sneak peek of Ian Hooper and John Schrag’s Design Essentials
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I get asked that question a lot. And frankly, it's a valid question that requires a thoughtful answer. At face value, it looks like Microsoft isn't practising what it preaches - if Microsoft doesn't even switch out Flash, why should you as a RIA solutions
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Paul and Qixing have been talking about Expression 2 and the Expression Professional Subscription . I have been running Expression on my MacBook Pro since I arrived at Microsoft Canada in Parallels or with Bootcamp . It's been great having access to both
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Two teams from Simon Fraser University (SFU) representing Canada just finished the Round 2 of Imagine Cup Interface Design Competition . As we wish them the best luck to enter the finals in France, I would like to recognize them and highlight their projects
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Two teams from Simon Fraser University (SFU) representing Canada just finished the Round 2 of Imagine Cup Interface Design Competition . As we wish them the best luck to enter the finals in France, I would like to recognize them and highlight their projects
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Quite a few people provided me feedback on my Deep Zoom post last month . With the help from Jamie Rodriguez's in-depth post on Deep Zoom's architecture and code resource, I've now added panning and keyboard interactions to my presentation example. Check
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EnergizeIT is back, and this year's theme is - Anything is Possible! This is totally reflected in our dreamlike banner design. :-) Although this year there's no Designer Track, we are discussing rich user experience with Silverlight 2 Beta and designer-developer
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As Qixing mentioned in the previous post , Expression 2 is now live and available for trial download. One of the cool new things that is being introduced with Expression 2 is the Expression Professional Subscription , starting in June 2008. If you are
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Less then 2 months we announced the Expression Studio 2 Beta at MIX, today we shipped Studio 2. The Expression homepage also got a new look: softer and lighter compared to the dark theme for Studio 1. Check out the key features in Expression Studio 2.
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