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Another Surface video
16 November 07 01:12 AM | john.mullinax | 2 Comments   

Not exactly new, but worth checking out this video if you haven't seen it and are interested in Microsoft Surface, the new multi-touch table top computer coming out "soon". More info here , too. Technorati tags: surface , user experience , UX Read More...

Filed under: UX, User Experience, WPF, Surface

The consumer value stream mind set
12 November 07 07:47 PM | john.mullinax | 4 Comments   

I saw this today, and it cracked me up. It's an insightful (and funny!) one-panel exposition on the importance of understanding consumer motivations -- the things that are important to them, what they are trying to accomplish. In microeconomic terms -- Read More...

Filed under: UX, User Experience, consumer experience, Brand, consumer value stream

PhizzPop Interview: Silverlight for cross platform video at University of Michigan
07 November 07 02:15 PM | john.mullinax | 2 Comments   

Just saw this over at PhizzPop . What is PhizzPop you may ask? It's a fledgling community site for designers to learn from and showoff to their peers. The link above is to an interview with Ken Arbogast-Wilson, Manager of Media Development and Production Read More...

Filed under: User Experience, Design, silverlight

Building brand and transcending walled gardens
30 October 07 01:46 AM | john.mullinax | 16 Comments   

Ok - so I've been posting about Popfly a lot lately. Why am I so excited about Popfly? It's simple, actually. Popfly is more than a mashup maker. And it's more than a Mashout tool (for sharing mashups) -- though it is that, too. What makes Popfly so exciting Read More...

Filed under: innovation, User Experience, social networking, silverlight, Popfly, Brand, FaceBook, Windows Live

Academia 2.0? The reponse to A Vision of Students Today
17 October 07 08:55 AM | john.mullinax | 2 Comments   

Technorati Tags: Adaptive , User Experience , Computing is a liberal art , knowledge , academia 2.0 Walter Stier posted a link to an interesting video made by a Kansas State cultural anthropology class on what it's like to be a college student today. Read More...

Filed under: adaptive, User Experience, computing is a liberal art, knowledge

Optimizing the consumer value stream
03 July 07 11:33 PM | john.mullinax | 5 Comments   

Technorati Tags: systems thinking , lean , consumer experience , web 2.0 , next web , loyalty Are you thinking about your consumers' personal value stream?  The businesses I generally work with are familiar with the notion of a value chain or a value Read More...

Filed under: change, lean, UX, User Experience, consumer experience, social networking, mashups

Mono Moonlight - Silverlight on Linux is near
20 June 07 11:49 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Technorati Tags: Silverlight , moonlight , linux , UX , User Experience Just saw this from Jesse Ezell: Mono is expected to release an alpha version of Moonlight later this week at the Paris MIX.  This will let users running browsers on Linux clients Read More...

Filed under: UX, User Experience, silverlight

Acropolis Lives!
05 June 07 03:56 AM | john.mullinax | 3 Comments   

Acropolis is CTP! The WindowsClient.net site says: Acropolis builds on the rich capabilities of Microsoft Windows and the .NET Framework, including Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), by providing tools and pre-built components that help developers Read More...

Filed under: manufacturing, UX, User Experience, context aware, WPF, Rich client, Acropolis

Want more info on Popfly?
04 June 07 05:46 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

I recently got into the Popfly alpha, and have been playing around with it off and on for the last week or two. Here's a screenshot of a simple, compact News Reader that pulls in RSS feeds from the blogs of the members of the Microsoft's DPE team that Read More...

Filed under: UX, User Experience, Design, consumer experience, social networking, silverlight, Popfly

Empowered Consumer Experiences Drive Loyalty, Profits
08 May 07 09:00 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

We don’t get a physical newspaper at our house, but sometimes my wife will go buy one – and then throw it away (!) – to get the coupons inside. It’s not just my family abandoning newspapers -- newspaper circulations have been declining for over 15 years Read More...

Filed under: change, UX, User Experience, consumer experience, grocery business

When User Experience really a matter of life and death
05 April 07 02:11 AM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

The NY Times reports that the Department of Defense created Joint Patient Tracking Application so that military doctors around the world can access patient medical histories -- and while it's used in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is mostly not used in the Read More...

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