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Even business applications deserve to look nice. In this episode Brad Abrams shares with us some of the details he will be covering in his upcoming MIX09 session on Silverlight 3.0. While there are some "unannounced" aspects of Silverlight 3.0 that he can't go into for us in this show,...

Joe Fletcher works in the Surface team, and is focused on identifying design approaches which best utilize touch-based interfaces for both Surface as well as Windows 7. In this episode we will discuss with Joe some of the concepts that he will be expanding upon in his upcoming session at MIX09. If...

Johnny Lee works in Microsoft Research, with a specific penchant at creating interesting and useful devices. He has a session scheduled for MIX09 called "Interaction Techniques Using the Wii Remote" where he will show off some interesting uses he has found for using the Wii Remote...

Tim Aidlin, is a User Experience (aka "UX") Designer at Microsoft and is responsible for many of the graphics work being done for MIX09. Since MIX has a strong focus of addressing the needs of designers such as Tim, we felt it would be useful to ask Tim his thoughts about some of the challenges...

Joanna Mason, a Senior Program Manager for Expression Blend, is working on several sessions for MIX09 for illustrating best practices of how to keep the designer involved throughout the entire development process of applications. Joanna worked for many years in the design community prior to coming...