February 2009 - Posts
Aside from EnergizeIT , we also have an exciting webcast series coming up in March called Ignite Your Career Webcast Series . They are non-technical webcasts, designed to support Canadian technical professionals in their career development. The webcasts
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It’s our first Silverlight user group meeting of the year. Mano and I are going to share our experience with animation and DeepZoom in Silverlight. Hope to see you there! Agenda: Wednesday, Feb. 25 6:30 – 7:30: Creating Animations using Blend and Code
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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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EnergizeIT registration is officially open. If you subscribe to the MSDN Flash and TechNet Flash newsletters, you’ve probably received an special edition with all the registration links included. Our team is working hard getting ready for the tour. I’m
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Interaction’09 is a conference of about 400 people. An intimate conference for a close design community of interaction designers means you got to meet many people at the conference. Even better, you got one-on-one time with pioneers in the field. I had
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There are about 750 UX designers and researchers working at Microsoft. People in the UX community are often very surprised to hear about it. I think part of it is we haven't given our designers enough opportunities to talk about what they do and what's
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Last weekend during Interaction'09 conference , I noticed there were quite a few developers in the heavily concentrated interaction designers conference. I was curious to find out what were their experience at the conference and why they chose this conference.
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Infragistics , one of the top UI controls vendors, has recently launched Quince – a UX Patterns Explorer in Silverlight. You can explore various UX Patterns by User Tasks, Tag Relations, and Wireframe (i.e. arranged by their UI positions). Of course you
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Every year, Microsoft Canada puts on an event called EnergizeIT . In the past this event was a one-day event held in Toronto where we talked about the great new technologies that we are going to be releasing. This year, we’re changing the
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Apparently, I missed an exciting Product Potluck while I was away in China. Last month the Waterloo User Experience Group had a meeting where people brought in an everyday product to discuss their design issues with the group. It was such an interesting
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After a week vacation in China, I’m back in Vancouver this week and just in time for IxDA’s Interaction’09 conference. I’ve been looking forward to this conference for a while, especially to the workshop I signed up called “ Drawing Ideas ” by Mark Baskinger
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