Design

You probably know this image as the default Windows 7 background, to Denise Trabona it is the Windows 7 Iconic Background. She joins us to walk us through the progression from concept to finished product. See what might have been a very different looking background and get a feel for what designers…

Call me a sucker for a good design, but I love Dell’s new candy-colored mini computers. New for this year’s holiday season the computer manufacturer has just launched a line of desktop PCs with small form factors…and surprisingly, quite a lot of power too.  Called the Dell Inspiron Zino HD,…

Gizmodo recently posted a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at how the new Windows 7’s login screen and default desktop came into existence. Apparently, the company sought out the help of Chuck Anderson, a young, 24-year old designer who worked his way up through the years from starting at a…

The new, revamped MSN homepage is now live. Updated on Tuesday, November 3rd, this hugely popular internet portal sees 100 hundred million visitors per month who comes to read news, watch videos, and get other local information like events and weather. Yet despite its popularity, the portal has not…

dezineforce (http://www.dezineforce.com) recently completed a proof-of-concept with Microsoft to look at how they could overhaul their user experience using Silverlight 3.dezineforce offer a scalable, on-demand engineering design capability over the web. Backed by a powerful HPC cluster, their…

As we get closer to the start of the Channel 9 Revolution, we wanted to give you a peek behind the thinking that is going into the new UX, how we came to some of the decisions we have, and a chance for you to speak out in favor of the direction of the next Channel 9 guy. Nishant Kothary…

What do you get when you invite 17 companies together and throw a bunch of new stuff in their face and ask them to use it? Well, in Wellington, it was called Expression for Art’s Sake. This was a bit of an ‘artist in residency’ program where Microsoft invited some companies to bring their…

What do you get when you invite 17 companies together and throw a bunch of new stuff in their face and ask them to use it? Well, in Wellington, it was called Expression for Art’s Sake. This was a bit of an ‘artist in residency’ program where Microsoft invited some companies to bring their…

There’s no shortage of choice when it comes to building applications on the Microsoft platform – traditional desktop application or browser-based application?  Web Forms or Win Forms? AJAX or Silverlight?  Rich versus reach?  This session covers the array of options and offers…

Bob Familiar interviews David Platt, CEO of Rolling Thunder, on why today’s software sucks. There’s no other good way to say it. It’s unsafe, allowing criminal programs to creep through the Internet wires into our very bedrooms. It’s unreliable, crashing when we need it most, wiping…