UX Strategy Musings from Will Tschumy, Microsoft User Experience Evangelist

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Google: The Kafka-esque dictator of the internet

August 24th, 2009 Comments Off

So this is a bit of a rant, I’ll admit.
Over the course of the last couple weeks, I’ve gotten some emails from friends and colleagues saying “Hey Will, did you know your blog is getting a malware warning on Safari on Mac?”

Alarmed, I clicked on the Google diagnostics link, and saw

Google provides these kinds of [...]

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Phizzpop Design Challenge LA – Feb 20th, 2009 at Zune LA

February 13th, 2009 Comments Off

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!

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Slideshare, meet WPF, WPF, meet slideshare

December 17th, 2008 Comments Off

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 installed, you’ll [...]

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Wireframing: there’s got to be a better way

September 5th, 2008 Comments Off

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, [...]

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Why Design Matters

June 25th, 2008 3 Comments

I gave this presentation at Incubation Week on Monday at our Silicon Valley campus.  I hope you enjoy it!

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Silverlight and Expression Resources on the web

June 17th, 2008 Comments Off

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, videos, getting [...]

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Hey Will, Where ya been?

June 14th, 2008 3 Comments

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

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From ClickOnce to Deep Zoom, the interview

April 28th, 2008 Comments Off

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.

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Cynergy’s winning entry, Ben, posted

April 7th, 2008 Comments Off

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!

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Build your own deep zoom gallery

April 3rd, 2008 Comments Off

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 [...]

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