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MIX09 Day 2 Keynote Pt 2: Deborah Adler on Changing Behavior by Design

Deborah Adler presented a fascinating case study of how user experience design can really have a positive impact on the lives of those who touch our products. She was the principal designer behind Target’s ClearRx drug prescription packaging , which has Read More...

Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 11:27 AM by tims | 4 Comments

Filed under: design, ui, mix09

MIX09 Day 1 Keynote Pt 1: Bill Buxton on Experience Design

Earlier today on the visitmix site, I posted a “live blog” of the first two MIX09 keynotes here in Las Vegas. Now that the dust has settled a little, I wanted to provide an edited version for broader consumption. If you’re looking for a comprehensive, Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 1:47 PM by tims | 6 Comments

Filed under: design, presentation, mix09

Windows 7 Theme Packs: Customize Your Desktop

Just wanted to take a moment to highlight Mike Swanson’s amazing theme pack for Windows 7. Mike is a colleague, friend who works just down the corridor from me. His primary role with the company is as a content owner for our developer conferences (he’s Read More...

Posted Sunday, January 25, 2009 7:59 PM by tims | 3 Comments

Filed under: design, tips, ui, windows 7

Flotzam: Mashing up the Web

Have you seen Flotzam ? It's a fun mash-up that Karsten and Tim put together that aggregates a bunch of different data sources: Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Digg, YouTube and indeed any general RSS feed. You can install it either as an application or a Read More...

Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 3:08 PM by tims | 1 Comments

Filed under: wpf, ria, blend, design, twitter, mix08, contest, xaml

The New Iteration: A Whitepaper on the XAML Revolution

Whenever we run a WPF or Silverlight training event or lab, the one question that is guaranteed to come up relates to the designer / developer workflow on a project team. In the old days of Win32 or Windows Forms, the workflow was straightforward (albeit Read More...

Posted Friday, December 07, 2007 5:26 PM by tims | 10 Comments

Filed under: wpf, blend, design, silverlight, whitepaper, xaml, ui

Snack Tutorials for Hungry Designers

Celso Gomes is an amazing interactive designer working at Microsoft who is responsible for the beautiful sample applications that ship with Expression Blend and did some of the earliest design explorations for Silverlight. Now he's come up with Nibbles Read More...

Posted Thursday, June 21, 2007 9:40 AM by tims | 5 Comments

Filed under: blend, expression, design, blogs, silverlight, sample, lab, tutorial

Hours of Free Training on Expression Blend and Design

Arturo Toledo (one of our ace designers) posted a reminder on an internal email list that lynda.com have heaps of free training on Expression Blend and Expression Design available as screencasts. The Expression Blend material is presented by Lee Brimelow Read More...

Posted Tuesday, June 05, 2007 1:15 PM by tims | 6 Comments

Filed under: wpf, blend, expression, design, silverlight, streaming

Microsoft Expression Launch Event

I'm presuming that almost everyone who follows this blog has at least one of the Expression design tools on their machine; Expression Blend (formeddrly known as "Sparkle" or Expression Interactive Designer) is an essential part of the arsenal for any Read More...

Posted Monday, December 18, 2006 11:49 AM by tims | 11 Comments

Filed under: blend, web, expression, media, events, design