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BayCHI Event Last Night

A big thanks to everyone who came to hear me speak last night at the BayCHI monthly program at PARC.  I enjoyed meeting so many of you in person and hearing your feedback and ideas.  Thanks especially to Rashmi, Deanna, Suzanne, Steve, and everyone else from BayCHI who made me feel welcome and helped manage the logistics of the event.  The turnout was great, and I hope those of you who came found it worthwhile.  (And hopefully, there are a few new readers here.)

For those of you who weren't there, the good news is that the BayCHI team should be releasing material from last night's event online as soon as today.  When it is available, I'll post again to let you know the location.

In my talk, I covered a lot of background material about why we're doing the new Office 12 user experience, details about the most important parts of the new interface itself, and answered questions for a while.  If you saw me speak at PDC or MVP Summit, some of the root material is similar, but tuned to the audience of user interface and usability professionals.

Thanks again for a great event, the interesting questions, and to BayCHI for extending me the invitation.

Posted: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 7:00 AM by jensenh

Comments

Long Pan said:

thanks for delivered such a great presentation. I enjoyed and learned a lot!
# December 14, 2005 1:04 PM

Joe Lagana said:

Your presentation was awesome! It put a human face on Microsoft and really showed that your company is thinking about the user.
# December 14, 2005 2:41 PM

Step said:

I'm on the wrong coast :( , but look forward to the material from your presentation. Keep up the great blog, I look forward to reading daily!
# December 14, 2005 3:25 PM

ji kim said:

I especially enjoyed the part about history of micrsoft office user interface, and the reasoning behind the design decisions!

I'm really curious to see how other products like Microsoft Outlook and Project will change....
# December 14, 2005 5:59 PM

kwc said:

Hi Jensen,

Thanks for your talk. It's one of the rare MS technologies that has impressed me with it's focus on the user. I've posted notes from your talk that I thought I should post here:

http://kwc.org/blog/archives/2005/2005-12-14.talk_beyond_menus_and_toolbars_in_microsoft_office.html

of course, errors and misinterpretations in the notes are all mine.
# December 14, 2005 7:23 PM

rover18 said:

I look forward to reading the material of the event.Is it video material?
# December 14, 2005 9:41 PM

jensenh said:

Thanks for the kind words, it was a fun event.

I know Steve Williams is working on getting the audio and slides posted but was having server problems. As soon as they're up, I'll let you know.
# December 15, 2005 2:36 PM

Steve Hansen said:

# December 29, 2005 8:11 AM

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