UX Strategy Musings from Will Tschumy, Microsoft User Experience Advisor

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 [...]

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 [...]

ландшафт 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 [...]

So this is, admittedly, a little outside of what I usually talk about, but wanted to share with you, my dedicated reader(s): In order to support Firefox 3, websites built using the Silverlight 1.0 Sivlerlight.js file must upgrade that file to the latest version. In addition to supporting Firefox 3, the latest version of the [...]

www.linerider.com – Click “Play Now” Today, InXile launched the redesigned LineRider.com, exclusively powered by Silverlight2 and Windows Live Services. Line Rider is a casual gaming site with between 1.5 & 2M Monthly Unique users.  In addition to the old, Flash based game, they have also just launched console versions of their game for the Xbox [...]