UX Strategy Musings from Will Tschumy, Microsoft User Experience Evangelist

As with most organizations, we at Microsoft are particularly pleased when others talk about our products in positive terms.  What’s even better is when the afore mentioned others talk about our products in terms of strategic market shifts.  Needless to say, this post made us very happy:
Wake up and see the Silverlight
It’s going to be [...]

I was privileged to participate in Next Design Leadership Institute’s Beautiful Diversion. We were asked to comment on Bruce Nussbaum’s article “Are Designers the enemy of design?” It was a really great exercise, and I’m humbled by the company I share in the document.
The contributors are:

Sir George Cox, Tony Fry, John [...]

Yesterday at NAB, Microsoft announced Silverlight. I for one am really excited for this. This is the first step towards the public unveiling of Silverlight.
While I can’t go into technical details at this point, what I can say is that Silverlight (it feels so good to say that versus ‘WPF/e’!!) renders a subset of XAML [...]

I hope you’ll forgive the wordplay - I just couldn’t resist. It’s amazing what sleep depravation will do to one. In my case, it seems to be a predilection for word puns. Anyhoo…
I did a podcast with Chris a week ago. I launched on Friday. Many thanks to Steve Portigal, [...]

I’m really happy to announce that MSDN Premium will now include Expression Web and Expression Blend (once released).  This had been a point of some contention both within Microsoft’s UX community, as well as within the overall developer community.
The great news (and one of the things that makes me happy to be at Microsoft) is [...]

MIX07 is SOLD OUT
I hope you got your tickets already - if not, there’s a waitlist for hopeful.  It’s going to be a great show.  Looking forward to seeing you all there!
For those of you who can’t make it, visitmix.com will be showing content from the conference starting April 30th.

For all of you out there using Macs (myself included), Apple has just released Boot Camp 1.2.  Vista on my MacBook has always been very fast (faster than my Tablet PC, but that’s a story for a different post).  The biggest challenge has always been hacking the old XP drivers into working on Vista.  There [...]

As I’m sure you know, MIX07 is coming up soon. We’re going to have a bunch of great sessions. Be sure to check them out! I’m looking forward to Lou Carbone of Experience Engineering, GK VanPatter and Elizabeth Pastor of NextDesign Leadership Institute, Bill Scott of Yahoo!, Roger Black, and Kip [...]

So in my recent trip to southern California, we (inevitably) ended up meeting with one of our media and entertainment customers. As we’re sitting in the lobby of this org, surrounded my more italian marble since I was last in Rome, a gentleman walked over to us dressed in a very nice suit.
“Are you [...]