Entries tagged with design - Channel 9

Silverlight and HPC Enable On-Demand Engineering Design

Mike Ormond — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:35:00 GMT

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 front-end web interface is currently built using HTML and AJAX. They were keen to explore opportunities to build an enhanced experience for their users.

In this video I chat to some of the people involved in the project to get their perspective on the project and the results.

A Peek Behind C9 Revolution UX

Larry Larsen — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:29:00 GMT

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 and Jeff Sandquist stopped by the studio to show us wireframes and talk about some of the new features. Let us know what you think and don't forget to visit the poll and vote. Remember, if you don't vote you can't complain. :)

Expression For Art's Sake, Wellington, NZ 20-23rd of April - Final Presentations

Nigel — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:35:00 GMT

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 developer and designer staff to this event to learn a little bit about Expression Blend 3 and Silverlight 3.

This is a video summary of the final presentations a video summary of the rest of the event is available at http://tr.im/EFASintro

View the projects and more detail at http://tr.im/EFASwlg

Expression For Art's Sake, Wellington, NZ 20-23rd of April

Nigel — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:35:00 GMT

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 developer and designer staff to this event to learn a little bit about Expression Blend 3 and Silverlight 3.

This is a video summary of the first 2 1/2 days a video summary of the final presentations is available at http://tr.im/EFASpres.

View the projects and more detail at http://tr.im/EFASwlg

Northeast Roadshow - UX Options

Brian Johnson — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:50:00 GMT

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 some insight into selecting the user experience delivery options that are best for your application’s target audience. Also included is a brief discussion of the software factories and other guidance provided by the patterns & practices team at Microsoft.

You can find slides and samples from the Northeast Roadshow events here at the Northeast Roadshow Code Gallery Site.

ARCast.TV - David Platt on Why Software Still Sucks

Bob Familiar — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:32:00 GMT

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 out hours or days of work with no way to get it back. And it’s hard to use, requiring large amounts of head-banging to figure out the simplest operations. In his book, David Platt explains why this is the case and, more importantly, why it doesn’t have to be that way.

Designing the Windows 7 Taskbar

Yochay Kiriaty — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:28:00 GMT

Windows 7 offers a new way of controlling your desktop, managing your windows, and launching applications. The Windows 7 Taskbar is a new application-launching and window-switching mechanism that consolidates the functionalities from previous Windows OS Desktop mechanisms such as Quick Launch, Recent Documents, Notification area icons, desktop shortcuts, and running application windows.

Watch Yochay Kiriaty, Windows 7 Technical Evangelist, and Taskbar product team designer Stephan Hoefnagels as we present the evolution of the Windows 7 Taskbar through the different design iteration cycles, and of course, we will see the famous “Bat Signal.”

Designing the Windows 7 Taskbar is one of a series of Channel 9 videos about the new Windows 7 Taskbar. Other videos include:

1. Designing the Windows 7 Taskbar

2. Windows 7 Taskbar Behind the Scenes

3. Jump in to Windows 7 Taskbar Jump Lists

4. Windows 7 Taskbar Overview

For more technical information on the Windows 7 Taskbar, read the Windows 7 Taskbar Part 1 – The Basics. And for more technical content on Windows 7, along with a few cool code samples, go to the Windows 7 Blog for Developers.

If you missed the PDC sessions on the Windows 7 Taskbar, you can always watch their videos: Welcome to Windows 7 Taskbar and Integrate with Windows 7 Taskbar – but I know you already saw them few times. ;)

Patrick Baudisch - MS Researcher und Professor am Hasso Plattner Institut

Oliver Scheer — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:13:00 GMT

Auf der Xtopia und dem Technical Summit war Patrick Baudisch einer unserer Top-Sprecher während der Keynotes. Ich habe mit ihm über seine "Doppel-Rolle" bei Microsoft Research und am Hasso Plattner Institut gesprochen. In diesem Interview spricht er über seine Projekte, seinen Werdegang und seine Affinität zu sehr kleinen und dennoch einfach zu steuernden Interaktions-Devices.

Astoria Design Walkthrough: Introducing $count as an URI query option

Andrew Conrad — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:52:00 GMT

Mike Flasko, ADO.NET Data Services PM, discusses some design work we have been doing around providing support for our #1 customer ask, the ability to ask for the count via the ADO.NET Data Services URI syntax.

Astoria Design Walkthrough: Thinking of a future with sync & offline

Andrew Conrad — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:02:00 GMT

In the latest of the Astoria Design walkthroughs, Pablo Castro, ADO.NET Data Service architect, discusses the vision of introducing sync & offline capabilities into ADO.NET Data Services. For those folks going to PDC that want to hear more, be sure to attend Pablo's talk Offline-Enabled Data Services and Desktop Applications. Also on the Astoria team blog is write up of the proposed design.

Xtopia: Logo on Tour

Oliver Scheer — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:30:00 GMT

Die Xtopia ist unterwegs nach Berlin. Das Logo befindet sich gerade auf Roadshow und rührt die Werbetrommel. Was es dabei so alles erlebt, gibt es in diesem Video zu sehen.

Astoria Design Walkthrough: Friendly Feeds Part 1

Andrew Conrad — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:15:00 GMT

For V1 of ADO.NET Data Services (aka Project Astoria) we introduced a process we called Transparent Design. The point of this was to make sure we got the design of our features out to users early enough so we could get feedback that we could act on. Here is a couple of samples:

http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam/archive/2008/05/20/merge-vs-replace-semantics-for-update-operations.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam/archive/2008/04/22/optimistic-concurrency-data-services.aspx

In general, this worked out quite well, however we found it difficult to completely capture the design discussion in notes. Hence, for Astoria vNext we are going to include short videos of folks from the team describing the design of the new features we are considering in addition to the usual design notes.

The first of these videos features Mike Flasko, Project Astoria Program Manager, describing the Friendly Feeds capabilities we are looking at for vNext. Enjoy!