UX Strategy Musings from Will Tschumy, Microsoft User Experience Evangelist

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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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 [...]

 Microsoft, here in the Bay Area, is happy to announce “Express Yourself” at 111 Minna on June 22nd.  Doors open at 6:00pm.
One of the strengths of Microsoft’s UX platform (Expression, Silverlight, WPF, et al) is the designer/developer workflow.  With this in mind, we’ve asked 5 of the many talented design firms to send us their [...]

Yesterday at NAB, Microsoft announced Silverlight. I for one am really excited for this. This is the first step towards the public unveiling of Silverlight.
While I can’t go into technical details at this point, what I can say is that Silverlight (it feels so good to say that versus ‘WPF/e’!!) renders a subset of XAML [...]

I’m really happy to announce that MSDN Premium will now include Expression Web and Expression Blend (once released).  This had been a point of some contention both within Microsoft’s UX community, as well as within the overall developer community.
The great news (and one of the things that makes me happy to be at Microsoft) is [...]

MIX07 is SOLD OUT
I hope you got your tickets already – if not, there’s a waitlist for hopeful.  It’s going to be a great show.  Looking forward to seeing you all there!
For those of you who can’t make it, visitmix.com will be showing content from the conference starting April 30th.

As I’m sure you know, MIX07 is coming up soon. We’re going to have a bunch of great sessions. Be sure to check them out! I’m looking forward to Lou Carbone of Experience Engineering, GK VanPatter and Elizabeth Pastor of NextDesign Leadership Institute, Bill Scott of Yahoo!, Roger Black, and Kip [...]

Another day, another URL. Hi, faithful readers. This is my new, permanent home. Rather than being hosted on wordpress.com, I’ve chosen to install wordpress on my own domain for the additional flexibility.
Why have I done this?
Primarily because I wanted to be able to post content that I can’t post on wordpress due [...]