UX Strategy Musings from Will Tschumy, Microsoft User Experience Evangelist

As long as I’m ending my long spell of not blogging, I wanted to also make sure everyone knew about the recently launched eBay Simple Lister application, powered by Silverlight 4 and built by our fantastic partner, Cynergy.  Check out the video overview here:

This video was taken at MIX10 this year.  Cynergy [...]

  Following its introduction at last year’s Cannes Lions festival, Schematic’s high-definition, multi-user Touchwall has been updated using Microsoft Windows 7 and returns to Cannes in 2010 as a faster, more efficient technology platform.  In addition to reprising its central role as the information hub of the event, [...]

One of the things that can be difficult as a Microsoft Evangelist is knowing about really cool stuff and not being able to talk about it.  Looking Glass is one of those things.  Ad Age had a great write up of it here: http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=139199
Looking Glass is built on top of SharePoint, taking advantage of it’s [...]

After all the work that went into this, it’s great to see Photobucket Visual Search Win.  Check out the award site here.
Photobucket Visual Search is here.

I’m hosting IxDASF at Microsoft’s San Francisco offices Tuesday, August 25th. I’ll be giving an hour long demo of SketchFlow, Microsoft’s new rapid prototyping and ideation environment.
There will be food, drinks and give aways. Check out www.ixdasf.org for more information. Looking forward to seeing you there!

One of the reasons why I love being an evangelist is figuring out how we get great projects done on our platform – this one has me particularly excited.  I’ve been leading the project for the last 6 or so months, coordinating between our great clients at Photobucket and our fantastic design partner, EffectiveUI.  Photobucket, [...]

Check out the winning solution:

Archetype’s winning “Resonate” solution

Amazing what can be done in a week.  Nicely done, Archetype!

After all was said and done, Archetype won both the judge’s accolades and the people’s choice at the Phizzpop Design Challenge LA last Friday the 20th.
Archetype’s “Resonate” solution combined a desktop application that allows artist management to merchandize singles, albums etc.  For Artists, it shows them current sales, and upcoming events.  It also allows [...]

Watch Archetype, Manifest Games and PUNY compete at the Phizzpop Design Challenge LA, Feb 20th, 2009.  Register today at Phizzpop.com.  Spots are filling up fast!
Problem Statement
The music industry has seen dramatic changes over the course of 5 years. As recent as 2007, the largest music retailer was Wal-Mart stores selling approximately 1 out of 2.5 [...]

At least according to TechCrunch.
I don’t usually comment about news articles, but this one just makes me sad (particularly not from TechCrunch – but where else am I going to go for Valley news?  Valleywag?).  I had a special place in my heart for BrickHouse, not so much for what it did (which was pretty [...]