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October 2008 - Posts

Friday, October 31, 2008 3:29 PM

Announcing Silverlight 'Artists in Residence' - Melbourne 1-5 December

Back in February, Kordesy and I attended a program called "Artists in Residence" in Redmond . We had a blast, and learned stuff too! So Kordesy was determined to bring the Artists in Residence magic to Australia. Therefore... announcing the first Aussie
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Friday, October 31, 2008 2:24 PM

I'm speaking at IDEF08, November 12 in Melbourne.

I'll be speaking on Wednesday November 12 at the " Develop - Industry Symposium and Showcase ", part of IDEF08, the International Digital Entertainment Festival in Melbourne. Here's the blurb: Welcome to the Social Back in the 'olden days',
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Thursday, October 30, 2008 10:26 AM

Design principles for Windows 7

Long Zheng has put up some photos from the " Design principles for Windows 7 " session at PDC . These really are general principles that we should all take into account designing software experiences. The example of the jump lists in Windows
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 4:16 PM

You can be a usability specialist like Olly

Nice to see "Technology Usability Specialist" highlighted on the ABC's "Ace Day Jobs" site. Technology Usability Specialist I have to agree with Oliver , one of the best parts of the job is the variety - I personally have worked for
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Friday, October 24, 2008 11:22 AM

Gekko Expression Media Workshops

Gekko Images in Sydney has introduced three new Expression Media courses: Expression Media as DAM   (Sydney November 25) Introduction to Using Expression Media   (Sydney November 26) Expression Media for Power Users  (Sydney November
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Monday, October 20, 2008 3:47 PM

Silverlight Designer and Developer Network launches in Melbourne

Jordan Knight has sent out the announcement - and the (temporary) website is up, so the rumours must be true - The Silverlight Designers and Developer Network has been launched. The first meeting is Thursday November 27th at Microsoft in Melbourne, and
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Monday, October 20, 2008 3:22 PM

The Delicate Genius and Shane discuss Silverlight

Check out the podcast Kordesy and I did with Jeremy Kelaher at Tech.Ed . The Delicate Genius and Shane discuss Silverlight As Kordesy says, we talk about: Silverlight Adoption The state of Silverlight in Australia and who’s using it Designers and
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Thursday, October 09, 2008 9:36 AM

Usability and User-Centred Design in the Software Development LifeCycle

Here are the slides from a talk I gave to first year Software Engineering students at Monash University today. Usability And UCD In The SDLC View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: usability; usability )
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:03 AM

A Website Named Desire

Nishant Kothary launched this site today:  http://www.awebsitenameddesire.com/ The site lets you Deepzoom on a poster Nishant, Xplane and others have created which attempts to capture the organised chaos that is website design and development (well
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