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• 11.12.08
  PhizzPop New York Design Thinking, Design Tools, Food and Drink, Innovations, Microsoft, PhizzPop, PhizzPopChicago | (0)

  PhizzPop occurred in New York City on November 4th (Yes, THAT November 4th). Get a taste of what’s coming to Chicago on November 20th and register for this free event at www.phizzpop.com before we sell out (We’re getting close). See an alternate version of this video here. (You'll need and be prompted to install Silverlight to watch these videos.)
• 11.05.08
  Something new: BizSpark Business, Community, Current Affairs, Design Tools, Innovations, Microsoft, Technology | (0)

  Design Thinking Digest has been a bit of a ghost town lately and that’s largely due to two big efforts I’ve been focused on. One is the return of the PhizzPop Design Challenge Tour in the US (which I’ll talk about later) and a new program we announced today called BizSpark. Some background. It’s sometimes easy to forget the roots and heritage of a company like Microsoft. Like many great businesses of yore it wasn’t sketched on the back of napkin but formulated in a dorm room. It was started by folks with a sense of ...
• 10.09.08
  Getting from there to here: Flash to Silverlight Design Tools, Education, Expression Studio, Microsoft, Silverlight | (0)

  This is not new but somehow not as known as it should be. Project Rosetta is about enabling Flash Designers to quickly grasp the fundamentals of going from Flash to Silverlight and understanding what’s different and what’s the same. It was developed by Rick Barraza of Cynergy Systems, a firm that is arguably an expert in both platforms. There’s also so great links to a wonderful whitepaper on designer and developer workflow. Learn more at The New Iteration.
• 05.06.08
  Expression Studio 2 Ships Community, Design Tools, Expression Studio, Microsoft | (0)

  One short year after Expression Studio was introduced at MIX 08 was announced we're seeing a major update to the suite with Expression 2, which shipped last Friday. See here for information on some of the great new features such as PHP support in Web and Silverlight support in Blend as well as things that make Expression easier to install and update and even own via new subscription based pricing. Expression Studio also has great support via the Expression Community with active forums and great articles, links and training about how to integrate Expression Studio into your design ...
• 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 ...
• 02.24.08
  IxDA Interaction08 Revisited Design Thinking, Design Tools, Education, IxDA, Speaking | (0)

  Technorati Tags: Chris Bernard,IxDA,Dan Saffer,David Armano,David Malouf,Jared Spool,Bill Buxton,SCAD   IxDA's first conference in Savannah was one of the most interesting conferences I've been to in the past 12 months. More than just about any other event I've attending recently I found folks here to be the most closely aligned to much of my thinking on design as it related to technology and the crafting of experiences. Just a few of the highlights included getting to spend some quality time with Bill Buxton and learn that Jared Spool, in addition to being an expert on usability is also ...
• 02.06.08
  The Ultimate Mash-Up: Stephen P. Anderson and Design Community, Design Thinking, Design Tools, Education, Innovations, Speaking | (0)

  Technorati Tags: Stephen P. Anderson,Design,Star Wars,The Force Behind Star Wars,George Lucas Any one that is active in local communities such as Refresh or IxDA or has attended an Adaptive Path conference has some passing experience with Stephen P. Anderson. Stephen just went out to start his own thing recently after a tenure at Sabre and I think he's one of our most cogent thinkers in the design space. But he also knows how to have fun in going about that inspiration. See the presentation below for example. Back in December I had a chance to see George Lucas speak in ...

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