Entries tagged with user experience - Channel 9

Connected Show Podcast: User Experience: It ain’t Lipstick baby

Brian Johnson — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:08:00 GMT

In this episode guest co-host and Interviewee Dave Crawford of Microsoft UK joins Dmitry to discuss News such as Windows 7, Windows Stores, ZuneHD development, Java Bridge, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and many more stories. Finally Dave tells us all about the User Experience project role, how development projects can benefit from it and how Developers and Designers need to play nice together.

Designing the Windows 7 Desktop Experience

Matthijs Hoekstra — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:50:00 GMT

The new Windows 7 desktop experience, including the new taskbar and Aero Snap, is both a major user experience change for Windows and an early success story. How did we go about evolving pieces of UI that haven't seen major change since 1995? Come hear about our design process and see the evolution of the design through sketches and prototypes. Find out about our challenges and learn how we used iteration, developer collaboration and design principles to increase customer satisfaction and enthusiasm.

This video is recorded at the Dutch DevDays in Den Haag The Netherlands in June 2009. DevDays is the largest industry event for developers in the Netherlands. Thousands of professional developers visit DevDays yearly to keep in touch with the latest developments in their field.

Remix09 - Intervista a Alessandro Corrente

Pietro Brambati — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:52:00 GMT

In questa intervista Alessandro ci parla di Microsoft Surface e di come il Cefriel lo sta utilizzando nel centro di competenza.

Remix09 - Intervista a Timothy Carniato

Pietro Brambati — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:58:00 GMT

In questa intervista Timothy, User Experience Architect di Fullsix, condivide le sue impressioni sulla keynote di David Platt e delle best practices per avere una buona User Experience.

Remix09 - Intervista a Roberto Achenza

Pietro Brambati — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:34:00 GMT

In questa intervista Roberto, Creative Director di Slash, descrive la sua esperienza di docente alla Scuola Politecnica di Design e l'approccio al design dell'interfaccia utente.

Remix09 - Intervista a Pietro Montefusco

Pietro Brambati — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:13:00 GMT

In questa intevista Pietro , Interaction Designer di Matrix, ci parla dell'importanza del Design in relazione agli aspetti tecnologici.

Remix09 - Intervista a Marco Roetto

Pietro Brambati — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:49:00 GMT

In questa intevista Marco ci parla in uno dei primi progetti di sviluppo con Windows Azure

Remix09 - Intervista a Marco Giglio

Pietro Brambati — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:30:00 GMT

In questa intervista Marco, di Gaia, ci racconta come la User Exprerience viene percepita nel mercato italiano

Remix09 - Intervista a David Platt

Pietro Brambati — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:17:00 GMT

In questa intervista David ci parla dei contenuti della sua keynote e dell'importanza dell'interfaccia utente nello sviluppo: il primo passo è ammettere il problema...

Files for "Skins for WPF and Silverlight" Screencast

Jared Bienz — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:47:17 GMT

Attached are the files for the Skins for WPF and Silverlight screencast.

Skins for WPF and Silverlight

Jared Bienz — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:42:00 GMT

In this screencast we'll cover the topics needed to create custom skins for WPF and Silverlight. Topics include Resources, Templates, Styles and Dictionaries, and we'll see how each builds upon the other to provide a very rich and flexible skinning system on these platforms.

The sample project demonstrated in this screencast can be downloaded here.

Part 2 is also available, “Creating Lookless Controls for WPF and Silverlight”.

Building Better User Interfaces

Matthijs Hoekstra — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:32:00 GMT

A great user experience starts with the user interface. In this talk, we will explore best practices in user interface design in a learn-by-example approach of the good, bad and the ugly in user interface design. From web sites to rich client, you will learn how areas such as navigation, layout, typography, controls and dialogs can make or break the usefulness of an application. At the end of this talk, you will have the tools and tips you need to bring great user experience through best practices in user interface design.

This video is recorded at the Dutch DevDays in Den Haag The Netherlands in June 2009. DevDays is the largest industry event for developers in the Netherlands. Thousands of professional developers visit DevDays yearly to keep in touch with the latest developments in their field.

Stefan Is... scrutinizing the user experience of Live Search (Episode 005)

Max — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:03:00 GMT

This was one of my most enjoyable talks with the team that brings you Live.com. This time, we dove into the User Experience and User Interface—topics I am personally intrigued by.

Have you ever wondered how we make our decisions? What we do to optimize speed and efficiency? Who do we test our ideas on? What the heck is the “Golden Triangle?”

These answers and more in this chat with Venkat… so dive in.

ARCast.TV - Brian Noyes on Selecting the Correct Client Technology

Bob Familiar — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:53:00 GMT

The one thing architects don’t have a shortage of these days are options, especially when it comes down to choosing the client technology that best suits their current project. Is it a web applications, or would be better to have it run natively on the desktop? Or perhaps a hybrid approach? In this episode of ARCast.tv, Denny Boynton talks with Brian Noyes, Chief Architect at iDesign, about what architects should consider when making decisions about which client technology to use.

Q and A with Bill Buxton at MIX09

Dan Fernandez — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:47:00 GMT

Nishant Kothary and Jonathan Carter host a live Q&A from MIX09 with Bill Buxton.

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.

Developing Compelling Silverlight User Experiences with Expression Studio 2 - TechEd NZ

Nigel — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:19:00 GMT

Presented at Tech.Ed New Zealand.

Expression Studio 2 delivers powerful tools to create natural and engaging user experiences. In this session you’ll learn how the Expression tools works together to streamline user experience design. With a focus on designing for Silverlight, I will walk through Expression Encoder, Expression Blend and Expression Web – highlighting the new features. I will finish the session by demonstrating how Expression Blend 2 SP1 can be used with Visual Studio 2008 to assemble user interface components for Silverlight 2 applications.

ARCast.TV - Andrew Espinosa of Monster.com on adoption of ASP.NET AJAX

Bob Familiar — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:48:00 GMT

Andrew Espinosa, Principal User Experience Engineer at Monster.com, discusses their adoption of Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX with Bob Familiar. Andrew talks about some challenges they had and what the benefits are now that they have ASP.NET AJAX deployed.

Lawson Smart Office brings WPF goodness to the enterprise

Adam Kinney — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:52:00 GMT

Originally noticed as "a beautiful user experience in an enterprise application", Lawson Smart Office provides a distinctive personalized experience for someone managing their "information workplace". Matthew Allbee provides a walkthrough of Lawson's first WPF application and shows how they use the are really taking advantage of the platform.

Customizing CRM's Entity Model and User Experience

Girish Raja — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:14:00 GMT

Custom navigation along with custom entities allows you to start creating Line of Business (LOB) applications in a variety of vertical industries. This screencast shows how you can import the entity and sitemap customizations into the CRM platform to quickly convert a vanilla CRM instance to a customized business application.

Check out http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/benriga/The-Dynamics-Duo-talk-about-Dynamics-CRM-Customization/ for the conversation I had with Ben Riga on the topic of customizing the CRM Platform.

You can download the code for this screencast here. Check out http://blogs.msdn.com/girishr/ for more code samples and related screencasts.

Fundamentos WPF y Expression Blend

Elisa García — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:38:00 GMT

Aprende cómo construir una aplicación con un despliegue transparente y una experiencia de usuario sin precedentes.

En esta sesión del pasado Remix, David Carmona repasa los fundamentos del lenguaje XAML y su modelo de programación, posicionamiento, controles, documentos, media, 2D, 3D, enlace a datos, estilo y plantillas.

David Carmona gestiona y dirige el equipo técnico de comunidades de la división de desarrollo y plataforma de Microsoft Ibérica, además de participar como consejero tecnológico en numerosos proyectos de desarrollo de empresas españolas en este sector.

WPF y Silverlight - Evolución de la experiencia de usuario

Elisa García — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:54:00 GMT

Durante los Microsoft Tech Days {The Evolution Show}, David Carmona dio una interesante charla sobre la importancia de la experiencia de usuario, tanto en aplicaciones de Windows como en la Web. Además, analizó las diferencias entre Silverlight y Windows Presentation Foundation, apoyándose en una divertida demostración.

Te presentamos un screencast grabado en directo durante la sesión.

También puedes descargar la demonstración del panel de letras en WPF, la de castillos de piezas en WPF, y su versión en Silverlight , así como la presentación que David utilizó la ponencia.

This Week on Channel 9: Feb 15 with Scott Hanselman!

Dan Fernandez — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:51:16 GMT

We had lots of laughs in the studio with Scott this week! Here's the show recap:

- We have a new logo (courtesy of Lincoln Anderson at 352 Media) and Scott Hanselman joins us in-studio (0 - 1:45)
- Microsoft Entertainment and Devices acquires Danger Inc for consumer mobile phones (1:35 - 3:38)
- Microsoft Virtual Earth acquires Caligari for 3D rendering (3:38 - 5:32)
- Dan - Charles Torre's Wayne Kelly's post after Lang.NET on moving Ruby.NET efforts to IronRuby and the DLR. (9:04 - 11:57)
- - Movie Trailer and Star Wars trivia (14:20 - 16:00)
- Brian's Pick of the week: Fixing SLN files that don't open (16 - 18:13)
- Dan's Pick of the week: Geek proves LifeHacker's story on Felonspy.com is a scam (18:31 - 20:15)
- Scott's Pick of the week: ASP.NET MVC is source changeable (20:15 - 22:39)
- Scott pulls a "BillG" and bails early on us (24:10)
- Scott does some *not to be missed* hilarious imitations of what it would be like if celebrities were coders Bill Cosby, Jimmy Stewart, Johnny Carson, Ross Perot, and more (24:55 - End)

Terrell Cox: Evolution of User Experience (UX) at Microsoft

Charles — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:42:23 GMT

Terrell Cox, Principal UX Manager for our Management Solutions Group in our Server and Tools Division, talks to us about how the world of developers and designers are blurring (yes, even for our server products!).

User Experience is becoming more and more important at Microsoft, and Terrell tells us how her team leads the charge on making sure the customer is always represented and that the programmer doesn’t forget the original design of the product.

Hello…..did somebody say MIX? :)

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Scott Guthrie: What's Coming for Mix, Part 2: Windows, Web, and RIA

Dan Fernandez — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:52:46 GMT

In the second part of this two-part interview, Scott discusses how this year's Mix (http://visitmix.com/2008/) is going to be even larger than last year's, covering everything from Windows Presentation Foundation improvements to Web development frameworks including Dynamic Data and the MVC Framework, to dropping some hints about upcoming tooling support, and the major improvements in Silverlight 2.0.

You'll also hear Scott talk about the different needs of developers and designers with Expression, how he personally wrote the <asp:Calendar> control, the unique challenges in building controls and how XAML enables unmatched control composability.

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