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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.)
• 11.06.08
  The Chicago PhizzPop Tour, November 20th Community, Current Affairs, Food and Drink, Microsoft, PhizzPop, PhizzPopChicago, Technology | (0)

  Note, this post has been edited on November 15th, 2008. We’ll be hosting another PhizzPop Tour in Chicago this year. You can sign up here. This year’s tour has a twist in that we’re doing it with the partnership with a few important groups. Which are: Ogilvy Interactive, which is currently contributing services to the Chicago 2016 committee, the group that supports Chicago 2016 Olympic bid (Learn more at chicago2016.org). Ogilvy has helped define the design challenge this year and it will be focused on developing strategies to help Chicago land the ...
• 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 ...
• 10.21.08
  [Podcast] Interview with Lisa Anderson Design, Microsoft, Surface, UX | (0)

  Hope you enjoyed my podcast with Jensen. During Explore Design, I also had a chance to sit down and chat with another Microsoft design leader, Lisa Anderson. Lisa has worked in several large companies as their UX director and very passionate about designer's career in technology companies. It's great to hear her insights on Surface UX design and her view on Microsoft design culture in general. Below, I broke my interview into two segments (about 10 mins each) to share with you. You can listen to Lisa's answer on the following questions. Surface specific questions ...
• 10.21.08
  [Podcast] Interview with Jensen Harris Design, Microsoft, Office, Podcast, UX | (0)

  During Explore Design, I had a chance to sit down with Jensen and ask my specific questions face-to-face. Jensen joined Microsoft right out of college and has been with Office team for 10 years now. It's very interesting to get his perspective on Office UI design and Microsoft design culture in general. Below, I broke my interview into two segments (about 10 mins each) to share with you. You can listen to Jensen's answer on the following questions. Office UI specific questions: Tell us a little bit about your role and main responsibilities. ...
• 10.10.08
  The Chicago Convergence: Highlights Microsoft, Silverlight, Speaking | (0)

  I had the opportunity to speak at The Chicago New Media Summit (Newly minted as The Chicago Convergence). This was back on September 16th and this was a great event. You can see some highlights here.
• 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.
• 10.08.08
  [Podcast] Microsoft Designer: Cinthya Urasaki Designer, Microsoft, UX, UX Design, User Experience | (0)

  There are about 500 designers working at Microsoft. People in the UX community are often very surprised to hear about it. I think part of it is we haven't given our designers enough opportunities to talk about what they do and what's it like to work as designers at Microsoft. Therefore, I used my spared time during my visit to Redmond last time to chat with Cinthya Urasaki, who is a UX Design Lead at the Unlimited Potential User Experience Team. I think one of the biggest advantages of working at Microsoft as UX designers is there are ...
• 07.23.08
  Want to join the best damn UX Evangelist Team in the world? Announcements, Jobs, Microsoft | (0)

  After a little less than 2 years in existence, Microsoft has decided to extend its investment in UX Evangelism.  We’re looking to add a “breadth” UXE, based out of Southern California (LA, San Diego, Inland Empire).  We want to talk to you if: You like getting your hands ‘dirty’ to build great experiences You’re deep with competitive technologies (Flash, Flex, AIR, AJAX libraries), like learning new things (e.g., WPF, Silverlight, Expression Studio) You like meeting lots of new people This job will have some travel, so be prepared.  Your job will be to build or integrate with design communities across the west coast ...
• 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 ...

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