UX Strategy Musings from Will Tschumy, Microsoft User Experience Evangelist

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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 360, Wii [...]

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

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!

Cynergy won the Phizzpop Design Challenge Nationals at SxSW with their fantastic entry, Ben.  While all the contestants had interesting and compelling entries, Cynergy’s was truly a cut above.
Winning more than 85% of the people choice vote, the Cynergy team created a series of interconnected applications - a desktop WPF application, a Silverlight application [...]

We had 941 people attend the Phizzpop Design Challenge Nationals at SxSW on March 10th, 2008.  We were lucky enough to secure the famous Maggie Mae’s as our venue, and all had a great time! 
Check out the photos here

We’re very excited to announce that MIX08 has sold out.  Last year was my first MIX - it was a huge and successful conference.  This year is even bigger, with a dedicated UX track.  All told, very exciting!
Don’t worry, registration for MIX09 should open soon

Microsoft’s UXE meta-blog, Design-For-Innovation.com has undergone some updates.  Among other things, it finally has an aggregated RSS feed for all of the posts.  Be sure to check it out!

So I’m a little late in posting this, but we’re really excited to have so many great design firms working on this problem (AKQA, Cynergy, Clarity Consulting, Thirteen23, and CreateThe). The grand finale is at SxSW in Austin, TX on March 10th. Check out designchallenge.phizzpop.com for more details!
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Your firm has been selected as [...]

So, I’m the first to admit, I’m a bad blogger. What can I say, I have an overly active sense of self-censorship (those who know me personally may be chuckling right now). Anyway, after fighting with the Hemmingway Wordpress theme for some time, I’ve decided to try a new one. We’ll see. [...]

Hi all.  Yes, I’ve been very bad posting recently, in part because I’ve been planning another design challenge similar to Express Yourself.  The new design challenge is being run nation-wide through our Phizzpop program.  If you haven’t already done so, and you live in Austin, Boston, Chicago, or Los Angeles, be sure to run to [...]