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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>PerformancePointy: Wade Dorrell's MSDN Blog : user experience</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/wadedor/archive/tags/user+experience/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: user experience</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Treemap + Silverlight =&gt; Gasp!</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/wadedor/archive/2008/11/24/treemap-silverlight-gasp.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:25:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9139241</guid><dc:creator>Wade Dorrell</dc:creator><slash:comments>4</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/wadedor/comments/9139241.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/wadedor/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9139241</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/gpde/" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/gpde/"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/gpde/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Microsoft’s Global Product Development team in Europe recently completed its Treemap control for visualizing hierarchical data, seen below.&amp;#160; You can read more about it here and leave your feedback. &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/photos/gpdepix/images/9074704/original.aspx" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;If you are excited by what you see us doing, check us out at &lt;a href="http://www.joinmicrosofteurope.com/"&gt;www.joinmicrosofteurope.com/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;You can skip a few steps straight to the demo here: &lt;a title="http://www.joinmicrosofteurope.com/TreemapDemo/" href="http://www.joinmicrosofteurope.com/TreemapDemo/"&gt;http://www.joinmicrosofteurope.com/TreemapDemo/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Wow!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Putting this in the context of PerformancePoint, remember that you can get a similar visualization in PerformancePoint dashboards by using ProClarity Analytics Server’s “Performance Map” visualization.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9139241" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/wadedor/archive/tags/proclarity/default.aspx">proclarity</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/wadedor/archive/tags/user+experience/default.aspx">user experience</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/wadedor/archive/tags/silverlight/default.aspx">silverlight</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/wadedor/archive/tags/heatmap/default.aspx">heatmap</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/wadedor/archive/tags/performance+map/default.aspx">performance map</category></item><item><title>PerformancePoint Firehose</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/wadedor/archive/2007/08/03/the-performancepoint-firehose.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 22:40:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4210402</guid><dc:creator>Wade Dorrell</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/wadedor/comments/4210402.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/wadedor/commentrss.aspx?PostID=4210402</wfw:commentRss><description>If you can handle it... try the &lt;A class="" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/performancepoint/" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/performancepoint/"&gt;Microsoft PerformancePoint team blog&lt;/A&gt;. The &lt;A class="" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/performancepoint/archive/2007/07/20/performancepoint-dashboard-designer-ribbon.aspx" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/performancepoint/archive/2007/07/20/performancepoint-dashboard-designer-ribbon.aspx"&gt;latest post&lt;/A&gt; is on PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer's ribbon challenges, and a look at how it'll work for final release. (We're one of the first MSFT teams outside Office Client to implement a ribbon, which was an interesting experience.)&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=4210402" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/wadedor/archive/tags/user+experience/default.aspx">user experience</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/wadedor/archive/tags/blogs/default.aspx">blogs</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/wadedor/archive/tags/ribbon/default.aspx">ribbon</category></item></channel></rss>