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• 09.08.08
  Now Everyone Can Play with Photosynth! Announcements, cool projects | (0)

  Another great thing happened during my vacation last month is the public launch of Photosynth. Now everyone can play with Photosynth and create their own synths. It's one of the Microsoft innovations really caught my attention when I first saw it earlier last year. I've been showing demos to different UX community groups and got great feedback, but today, I finally had a chance to create my own synth- stuffed animals on coffee table. :) Just a quick reminder for what is Photosynth - based on a large set of photos of a space or an object, Photosynth ...
• 09.07.08
  The Mojave Experiment General Thoughts, cool projects | (0)

  I'm back from my vacation in China now. In addition to watch Olympics with my family and friends, I did quite a few things I haven't done before like climbing water falls with metal chain, ride on the those bamboo rafts that I saw so many times in Chinese Kungfu shows, flying on top of forest though cable cars. I hope you had some time to relax and recharge in the summer as well.     During the month I was gone, there are several things cumulated that I'd like to talk about. One of them is the Mojave ...
• 06.07.08
  Enterprise 2.0 – Midori + Sharepoint .NET, Canadian, Developer, SharePoint, UI, UX, cool projects | (0)

  My good friends Gene, Jess and team at nForm have finally demonstrated their awesome new project management applicaiton Midori. Midori is built on top of Sharepoint. And uses a completely custom layout engine. Part of Midori is an engine that gives us complete control over SharePoint's interface and interactions. We're still refining the interface, but we're able to make Midori look and work like just about any other web app (including standards-compliant mark-up and a bunch of ajax-y interactions). The thing that blows me away is: ...
• 06.05.08
  Green Tagging - Sustainability for Small Business Owners Canadian, Students, UX Design, cool projects | (0)

  Back in April, I had the opportunity to judge an in-class user interface design competition at UofT. The projects presented at the competition all based on this year's Imagine Cup theme: imagine a world where technology enables a sustainable environment. It was very interesting to see the various software and physical interfaces created to solve an environmental problem, help people save more energy, or raise environmental awareness. More importantly, it was a unique learning experience for computer science students who have never taken interaction design or usability training before.  It changed the way they think about users in the whole ...
• 04.28.08
  Office Labs is Live! UX Design, cool projects | (0)

  Similar to Live Labs, Office Labs is another home for prototypes and proofs-of-concept with focus on productivity, which will allow community to test drive our new ideas and provide feedback. From their own words: "We're a group of designers and developers that collect ideas from all over Microsoft (but mostly from Office and other products related to 'getting stuff done' - what we call 'productivity'). We build working prototypes of the most promising of these ideas to see if they work as well as we hope they might." There is a list of interesting projects ...

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