A User Experience Overhaul with Silverlight and MVVM
I recently had the opportunity to spend some time in the Microsoft Technology Centre (MTC) with a company called dezineforce who offer a unique capability – a cloud-based engineering design service. Coming from an engineering background myself, I found both the problem domain and their application fascinating. It’s all about helping engineers build better components more quickly (where “better” might be stronger, lighter, less material, cheaper material etc)
dezineforce were in the MTC for a 2 day Architecture Design Session (ADS) followed by a 3 week Proof-Of-Concept (PoC) looking at how they could revolutionize their user experience. At the end of the PoC, I took the opportunity to chat to some of the people involved.
Of particular interest I think are Richard Harding talking about the problem domain, Neil Kidd talking about the ADS and PoC, Josh Twist talking MVVM and Althea de Souza’s genuine delight on seeing the results for the first time.
The following are the hyperlinks from the end of the video for convenience
I also have a more in-depth written interview with some of the people involved which I’ll publish shortly.
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