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• 05.06.08
  The five tools of the professional software designer Design Methods, Design Thinking | (0)

  Any designer worth their salt knows that borrowing shamelessly or outright stealing are often touted as key skills. In the spirit of that concept (without outright endorsement) I'm going to apply that type of thinking to a post one of peers created recently. Which relates some of which we know about baseball and assessing skills to concepts around software architecture. You can read this great post here and I'll pull Larry's concepts on baseball which are great guidance for anyone. (Well done Larry and thanks for the photo!). Updates. You'll notice I only have FOUR for a ...
• 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 ...
• 02.24.08
  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
  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 ...
• 02.06.08
  Design Inspiration for my IxDA Talk Conferences, Design Methods, Design Thinking, Innovations, Speaking, Tangents | (0)

  At the upcoming IxDA Interaction 08 conference in Savannah I'll be giving an abbreviated version of my classic design talk. I'll play spoiler here and say that much of what we think is pioneering today had it's roots and was even mastered far before most of us were here. In light of that of that I'll simply provide a link to this video that shows how much of our past is related to our present and our future in ways that are far more compatible than we think. Special thanks to former colleague John Tolva, whose earlier post ...
• 02.03.08
  Teaming and Collaboration for Creative Types: A Workshop With Chris Bernard Design Methods, Design Thinking, Education, Speaking | (0)

  | View | Upload your ownSo in addition to shilling for Microsoft I do have other hobbies. One of these hobbies is teaching people how to be effective in collaboration and not waste time. These are slides (which you can download in .PPT format) that I use to teach a one day workshop on teaming and collaboration. I've had the privilege of walking about 120 folks through this one day workshop and it's had a fairly decent level of success at my alma matter, the Institute of Design.
• 02.03.08
  There Will Be Blood: Why the Web 3.0 Will Be More 1.0 Than 2.0 by Chris Bernard Conferences, Design Methods, Design Thinking, Innovations, Speaking | (0)

  | View | Upload your ownThis is an update on my 'Marketing's Perfect Storm' talk that goes deeper into the technology and economic landscape and looks at how much social media is influencing this space. It also delves a little bit into how Microsoft perceives the digital marketing landscape both on the Web and beyond it. Yes, a ScreenCast is coming.
• 02.03.08
  Design Thinking Dallas: Doors to Meaningful Innovation by Chris Bernard Design Methods, Design Thinking, Microsoft, Speaking, Sustainability, Technology, Web/Tech | (0)

  | View | Upload your own This is a talk I gave in Dallas in October of 2007. It covers a lot of the territory I cover with other talks and I've reposted the presentation in a downloadable format. It's kind of a collection of my all-up views and thinking on design and innovation. Again, some of it won't make sense without the words and I'm working on a ScreenCast of the presentation.
• 02.03.08
  Marketing’s Perfect Storm Current Affairs, Design Methods, Design Thinking, Innovations, Speaking | (0)

  | View | Upload your ownThis is a presentation I gave at the pleasure of Critical Mass in Chicago. I got to go right after David Armano gave his Fuzzy Tail talk. My theme here was how the convergence of technology and social media was cramping the style of traditional marketers. Another presentation sorely in need of a ScreenCast. I promise I'll put some effort into that.

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