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Wednesday, January 31, 2007 1:45 PM

2 Yins for every Yang

Obviously, Scott Barnes just doesn't have enough firepower to keep up with me, so Frank has provided me (well, us, but I like to think 'me') with a new playmate. Based in Sydney, Michael Kordahi is also focussing on evangelising to the Web developer/designer
Posted by shanemo | 1 Comments
Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:41 PM

The yin to my yang

Everybody please welcome Scott Barnes . Scott is our shiny new web VAR evangelist, based in Brisbane. If my job is to reach out to designers about everything UX, then Scott's job is very similar, but with more developer focus. So the good news for me
Posted by shanemo | 3 Comments
Wednesday, January 10, 2007 10:11 AM

iPhone design and sub-pixellating

I'm sure you'll have no problems finding iPhone content. I'll just pick this one, which tells a bit of the design story. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1575410-1,00.html . Just goes to show, that, done well, the user experience starts
Posted by shanemo | 1 Comments
Tuesday, January 09, 2007 9:04 AM

Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista

Check out this video preview of Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista.Uses lots of whizzy WPF and Vista tricks like transparency, scaling and sidebar gadgets. From an interaction design perspective my favourite bit is the voice-level indicator. Gives users
Posted by shanemo | 3 Comments
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007 3:51 PM

BlueScreen2007

User Experience Principle #2: The user should always feel in control. So I've been going through the tutorials for Expression Blend coz I'm supposed to be an expert at it by now. However, on my machine at work I couldn't get any of my applications to
Posted by shanemo | 8 Comments

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Tuesday, January 02, 2007 2:37 PM

Free tickets - "Interaction Design Studio" dry-run

I am running a new tutorial entitled “Interaction Design Studio” at CHI07 . This is a spin-off from “Principles of Interaction Design”, and is a short, no-lecturing, exercises-only studio session to give interaction designers a chance to build their design
Posted by shanemo | 5 Comments
 
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