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• 02.28.08
  My Panels At MIX Design Methods, Design Thinking, Design Tools, MIX, Silverlight, Surface, WPF | (0)

  Going to MIX? Want to see my panels? Here they are. They will also be taped and posted at the www.visitmix.com site. Real World Design: Working with Silverlight and WPF in the Design Studio Thursday, March 6 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Delfino 4001A  Speaker(s): Beau Ambur (Metalliq), Chip Aubry (Tribal), Chris Bernard (MODERATOR), Nathan Dunlap (Identity Mine), Rich Weston (Neudesic) Audience(s): Creative, Technical Session Type: Panel Silverlight and WPF represent a new way for designers and developers work together. But what happens in a professional practice that's focused more on employing designers than developers and using ...
• 02.28.08
  Get inside the design mind at Microsoft Design Thinking, Microsoft | (0)

  Colleague Will Tschumy created Design For Innovation months ago as a blog aggregator for a few of us. Those of you that would like to see more unfiltered commentary from folks inside Microsoft might enjoy it. Check it out. Technorati Tags: design-for-innovation
• 02.28.08
  Follow MIX2008 from home Community, MIX, Microsoft | (0)

  Sadly, MIX2008 is sold out. But don't let that stop you from following all the announcements and sessions that are happening at MIX. We'll be live streaming all keynotes and sessions will be hosted online within 24 hours. Starting the day of the event (March 5th) you'll be able to see content at: http://sessions.visitmix.com Also be sure to check out the MIX Flickr feed. You'll be able to see presentations from Steve Ballmer, Ray Ozzie, Scott Guthrie, Guy Kawasaki and Dean Hachamovitch unveiling the latest web-oriented products and technologies. To see what sessions are coming you can ...
• 02.26.08
  Maybe this internet thing *is* going to catch on Business, Found on the web | (0)

  Oh how the times have changed. In a past life, I was the Lead Information Architect for Walmart.com, focusing on what they call ‘Digital Life’ - aka, Music Downloads, Video Downloads, Digital Photos, etc. Walmart never (and as far as I can tell) still doesn’t take digital distribution seriously.  They were content to have a toe in the water, and hold onto their number one spot in selling CDs (Walmart’s numbers are staggering - they print 1 out of every 2 physical photos, and sell something like 1 out of every 2.5 or 3 CDs sold).  I’m guessing that toe may ...
• 02.26.08
  Adobe Blurs Line Between PC and Web – New York Times Uncategorized | (0)

  So, I don't normally blog about competitors but I'm quoted in the New York Times today and they promoted me to executive and dubbed me the father of Flash, or somesuch. Ah, here it is: Finally, there is Microsoft. It is pushing its competitor to Flash, called Silverlight. Three years ago, Microsoft hired one of Mr. Lynch’s crucial software developers at Macromedia, Brad Becker, to help create it. Mr. Becker was a leading designer of the Flash programming language. Sweet, I was crucial. Then it got picked up on Slashdot: ...
• 02.25.08
  Design Student of the Month – Nima Motamedi DesignStudentoftheMonth, Students | (0)

  Attention please! I'm very excited to launch the first edition of Design Student of the Month on CanUX. There are a lot of creative students in Canada who are doing innovative work to improve people's life through interactive, visual, informational, and other aspects of User Experience Design. I invited them to introduce who they are and share their work with you. To nominate a Design Student of the Month, email us.   Who’s Nima? I am a designer completing my Masters degree in Interaction Design at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Prior, I studied Industrial Design at OCAD in ...
• 02.24.08
  Interior Design Show 2008 Event, UX Design | (0)

  Yesterday I went to check out the Interior Design Show 2008. It's exciting to see the various trends and creative designs for everyday products. Because of my HCI background, I kept search for the great designs that are attractive and usable. I think in interior design context, "Usable Products" means the products can bring people comfort, convenience, and flexibility in addition to their functionality. Here are some interesting examples I saw. Convenient and flexible. Dinning table, chairs, and silverware container all in one design. The chairs can be collapsed under the table to ...
• 02.24.08
  Beautiful Applications Design Methods, Design Thinking, Design Tools, Expression Blend, Innovations, MIX | (0)

  Technorati Tags: Thirteen23,MixMe,Continuum There's a great deal of talk about how Vista (when compared to Windows XP) doesn't provide value to most users. I think much of this stems for the fact that we have yet to see many applications that truly take advantage of the platform and have created applications that make us feel good when we use them. Of all the numerous designers and firms I work with I'm not sure anyone understands that better (or is able to execute their vision better with WPF and Vista) that a firm by the name of Thirteen23. Some of the ...
• 02.24.08
  Silverlight 2.0: What you need to know Microsoft, Silverlight | (0)

  I try not to cross-post content that is available in abundance elsewhere but Scott Guthrie has put some detailed posts up on Silverlight 2.0. It's safe to presume that we'll be talking more about Silverlight 2.0 for the remainder of the year and Scott's post is a great place to start to get some updates. Check out Scott's blog for details. Or see below for some great tutorials that can get you stared. Part 1: Creating "Hello World" with Silverlight 2 and VS 2008 Part 2: Using Layout Management Part 3: Using Networking to Retrieve Data and Populate a ...
• 02.24.08
  New content on brainstorming, interaction design and user observation Design Methods, Design Thinking, Design Tools, Education, IxDA | (0)

  Technorati Tags: Innovation,interaction design,IxD,IxDA,brainstorming,user observation,Institute of Design I've been dusting off some of my previous work on these three subjects in preparation for some workshops that I'm going to be doing in a few weeks. I've created a presentation for each topic and posted to www.slideshare.net/chrisbernard. The topics are: Innovation and interaction design. This gives a high-level overview of the processes and techniques that commonly used to design digital experiences today. However, I'll caveat thought and say I don't think the processes described can account for the impact we're seeing social media and it's inherent network effects ...

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