June 2009 - Posts
As your project evolves from simple sketches to prototypes, you may want to add some real interactivity to it. There are two useful tools in Blend make this really easy: Sample Data and Behaviors. This tutorial will focus on Sample Data and how designers
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Bill Buxton talks about the difference between “Sketch” and “Prototype” in this his Sketching User Experiences . (see the summary below) I agree sketching is an important part of the design process, but often times it’s hard to share our paper and pen
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Two years and an half ago, when I first joined Microsoft, we were getting ready to release Expression Studio 1. Expression Blend is a key product in the studio and works closely with Visual Studio. It was a great first step to support designers with visual
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So, you have a great design idea… How do you turn your conceptual design ideas into rich prototypes ready for production? How do you share your design ideas with others effectively at each stage? Come and join me next Thursday at University of
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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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Do you think designers are evangelists? Outside of the religion context, an evangelist “is a person who enthusiastically promotes or supports something” according to Wikipedia. Based on this definition, we designers are obviously User Experience evangelists.
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It’s survey time. Wait! Don’t run away yet. It’s a survey to ensure that our team correctly identifies opportunities that would be of interest to you and discover what level you would be willing to share insights and collaborate across our programs, activities
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If you develop/design public websites for your customers, you likely already know first-hand how important a good Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategy is to its success. Generating traffic to a website is hard and is downright impossible to do well
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Bing is the new Microsoft search experience and it’s live now for Canada! I’ve been using it for a while internally as Kumo. There’s already very lively conversation on Twitter about Bing . Some people like it after giving it a try and see the improvements
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TechDays 2008 was such a success that we had many comments and feedback that we should expand it to more cities. Given our goal to support your development with skills growth, connecting you with your peers and experts to share insights and lessons
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As a solution provider, the web presents an ever increasing opportunity to grow your business. As more and more customers (and potential customers!) look to the web as a way to broaden their message, increase their own revenue and lower their cost
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