July 2008 - Posts
This is it! Day 5 was the last day of our training, and we were scheduled to present our project at 3:30 in the afternoon. The atmosphere in the training room was very intense, and nobody felt there was enough time. From the design side, I needed to restyle
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Day 4 involves a lot of hard work (9 am - 12 am). It feels like the crunch time before final projects back in grad school. At the start of the day, we reviewed each other's progress and decided the underlying messaging framework for two Silverlight
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John and I started parallel working in Day 3 and chatted back and forth on each other's progress using Office Communicator . On the Design side , I first focused on creating graphical elements in Expression Design. For each of our application scenario:
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Another day of collaborating virtually with John. This morning we learnt about creating handoff animations and editing control templates in Blend for designers. Handoff animation is something Frame-based animation model can't do. Handoff animation means
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This week my teammate John Bristowe and I are participating in the Microsofties in Residence Training (MiR). It's a five-day Silverlight training for Microsoft internal designers and developers. A designer is paired with a developer, so in our case I'm
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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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I really enjoyed the speech given by University of Waterloo Dean's Arts, Ken Coates, at last DesignCamp Waterloo back in March. It took me a while to get the video clip for speech, but it's a great one to share. He only spoke for 10 mins. However, it
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Congratulations to GreenNet from Simon Fraser University , on winning the 2nd place in the Imagine Cup 2008 Interface Design competition! Congratulations to RoboTree from Fanshawe College and the University of Western Ontario on winning the 3rd
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Lately, I received several requests from both designers and UX professors about training on Expression Studio, which can help them jump start with the tools. There are so many different online training out there, so it's hard to figure out where to get
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My teammate Jean-Luc David is now in Paris with the Canadian finalists: Team RoboTree (short film) and Team GreenNet (Interface Design). Check out how our Canadian teams are doing on CanDev blog and JL's personal Flickr site. Let's send the best wishes
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