UX Strategy Musings from Will Tschumy, Microsoft User Experience Advisor

The Phizzpop Design Challenge will be held at Zune LA this year.  Register to attend the party at www.phizzpop.com. You’ll see Archetype, Manifest Games and PUNY compete for a chance to compete in the Phizzpop Design Challenge Nationals at SxSW. What could be better?  Open bar, food and great design.  See you Friday!

So for those of us that live and die by PowerPoint, Slideshare has become an indispensible tool to share presentations (you can check out mine here).  I’m very proud to say that we’ve just recently released a plug-in for PowerPoint 2007 to allow direct upload and management of your presentations. Get the plug-in here. Once [...]

So I’ve come to wireframing in a little bit of an odd way.  Way back in the day, I started out, like many of us, by just hacking around in HTML.   I found that this was an invaluable way of learning the medium.  In addition, it meant when I was using a tool like Dreamweaver, [...]

I gave this presentation at Incubation Week on Monday at our Silicon Valley campus.  I hope you enjoy it! | View | Upload your own  

I’ll admit, I can’t take credit for pulling this together – Arturo Toledo, one of our great Technical Product Managers (he’s also an awesome guy), did and I wanted to share it with you, our loyal reader(s). Silverlight · To learn more about Silverlight visit the Silverlight Community site. This site includes tons of tutorials, [...]

Sorry for the delay in posting, I promise I’ll be back soon.  As you can see, I’ve got my hands a little full at the moment

Hi all.  So now that I’m recovered from MIX, SxSW, Adaptive Path’s MX conference, and Web 2.0 Expo, maybe I’ll get a chance to blog again. In the mean time, check out this interview I did with Tony Sokolowski, Design Director at Vertigo. Check out the rest of the Expression Newsletter here.

As I mentioned before, Cynergy won the Phizzpop Design Challenge Nationals.  Over the weekend, they posted a screen cast and voiceover for their suite of applications, Ben. Check out it out here. UPDATE: Check out the Microsoft Press Pass on Cynergy’s win!

In case you missed it, one of the big features of Silverlight 2 (aside from a compact, cross-platform implementation of .Net, advanced control set, and further enhancements to its already impressive streaming capabilities) is Deep Zoom. Deep Zoom used to be called “Seadragon”  – gotta love code-names.  If you running IE, you can check out [...]

As one might guess, Microsoft’s development process never really stops.  Similarly, now that we’ve shipped Windows Vista, work now begins on the next version of Windows. There was a great article on APCMag’s site on what’s known about the new effort.  There are  three things that make me excited:  The project is being led by SVP [...]