Design Leaders at Microsoft: Eric Zocher and Steven Guttman

The Seattle Times yesterday wrote about the growing influence of design leaders inside Microsoft.  Two of the prime examples of this trend are Eric Zocher, General Manager for Expression Suite, and Steven Guttman, Product Unit Manager for Expression Web.

Eric runs the overall team who ship all of our design tools; a sort of "startup within Microsoft".  Steven runs the team who build Expression Web -- a product that wins kudos for web standards support, and spontaneous applause for PHP support

Nishant spoke with them about what it's like to build these products within Microsoft, about the recent launch of the Expression community site, and more.  I have a feeling we'll be hearing a lot more from both of these guys in the future!