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UX Australia – Canberra 26-28 August

The first ever UX Australia Conference is coming up in August in Canberra. Donna, Steve, Andrew and Danielle have a great line-up of speakers from Australia and overseas. Oh, and me. I’m doing 3 presentations (gulp!): 1. Pre-conference Workshop: Interaction

Remix Australia Lonely Planet Surface Demo

The Lonely Planet Surface application that Amnesia Razorfish showed at Remix has been generating heaps of interest, so I’m pleased to say that the videos are finally online for your viewing pleasure. First check out the Lonely Planet keynote demo (around

SEAT and the Super Real

I was sent a link today to this site from the UK which is for the launch of the SEAT Exeo (it’s a car). Yes it’s built in Silverlight but what I really want to concentrate on is the design. Visual Design Firstly, it’s beautiful to look at. That’s good

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

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

Teaching 'Principles of Interaction Design' at OzCHI in Cairns in December

I'll be teaching "Principles of Interaction Design" at OzCHI in Cairns on the 8th of December. There's a short blurb on the conference website , or here's a longer one: Principles of Interaction Design This tutorial introduces 23 key principles
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Designing for Workflow, and Interaction Design Studio at Oz-IA

I'll be teaching a half-day workshop, plus delivering an Advanced Session at Oz-IA in September. If you haven't been to Oz-IA before, it's definitely the friendliest conference of the year. Held in Sydney every year by Eric Scheid , it's a great (and

Billy Hollis on Getting Smart with WPF

Thanks to Jonas for sending me a link to this video of Billy Hollis presenting a great WPF business application: Billy Hollis on Getting Smart with WPF The first ~20 minutes of the video walks you through the UI design and talks about how various WPF
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I'm a Motion Design Newbie - TechEd attendee RFID visualiser thingy

Coming from a background in old-school application design, designing for motion is something I didn't have to worry about much in the past - except for maybe the occasional sliding/expanding panel. However, in these days of 'one-page websites', animation

Gamer-influenced Design

Last year I blogged a little about how we can learn to design for Feedback and Problem Solving by drawing inspiration from games design: http://blogs.msdn.com/shanemo/archive/2007/05/22/discretionary-use-of-mandatory-tools-or.aspx (Shameless plug: Sarah
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Of Mapping, Cognitive Load and Credit Card Payments

Every credit card I've ever owned shows the expiry date in MM/YY format. E.g. 07/10. If an online payment site asks me to enter the expiry date by selecting the Month name , they are asking me to perform a mapping from the numerical information on my
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Teaching "Interaction Design Studio" and "Back to the Future: The Next Wave of UI Design" at UPA

I'm teaching two tutorials at UPA (Usability Professionals Association) In Baltimore in June. Interaction Design Studio Interaction Design Studio provides a dynamic, fun and most importantly safe environment for practicing user interface designers, interaction
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Animation - Not just for Green Card Lotteries Anymore

I only just came across this great post at watchingapple.com from last year that describes many of the key animations in OSX (pre-Leopard). Core Animation Indeed For many years animation had a bad reputation amongst UI designers, mostly because of its
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Luke Wroblewski on "Designing for Web 2.0" - Melbourne, Feb 7th

Noted U.S. user interface designer, Luke Wroblewski will be in Melbourne for the VALA conference in February, and has kindly agreed to present at the first CHISIG Victoria meeting for 2008. Topic: “ Designing for Web 2.0 ” Venue: University of Melbourne
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Wireframing in Silverlight 1.0

If you are a designer working on a Silverlight 1.0 project, or if you are working with designers, check out the video by Arturo Toledo entitled "Workflow of Silverlight with Expression and Visual Studio from the recent " Silverlight 1.0 Fire
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