Shane Morris: UXB
A User eXperience Blog, by a User eXperience Bloke
Cruel to be kind - When it's good to be Modal
Here at Microsoft it is online training season. As a UI designer, I always look forward to the...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/02/2008
MIX registration open. Or, win a ticket!
MIX registrations are open for those who want to go old-school and actually pay for your ticket to...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/23/2007
Videos from MIX UK are up
Videos from the UX MIX conference are up, including heaps of stuff on Silverlight and Expression, as...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/16/2007
AIMIA "Future of Usability" Slides
Here are my slides from the AIMIA 'Future of Usability' Panel on the 3rd of December. I really...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/03/2007
Customer Experience: The Future of Usability - Dec 3, Sydney
A number of usability industry luminaries, plus me, are speaking on an AIMIA panel entitled...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/21/2007
Silverlight Splashes Out - DMF Presentation
Thanks to all who came along to my "Silverlight Splashes Out" session at Digital Media...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/17/2007
New Horizons Expression/Silverlight designer training
New Horizons have posted details of their Expression/Silverlight designer training courses. So...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/08/2007
MIX on Campus - I know I'll be there
Nick Ellery is doing a great job putting together the "MIX on campus" events in Melbourne, Brisbane...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/06/2007
Australian Silverlight and Expression Training for Designers !
Apologies to all those who have been waiting too long for this, but we finally have...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/04/2007
AIMIA Award Nominations Open
Nominations are open for Australia's interactive industry night-of-nights, the 14th annual AIMIA...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/01/2007
Top 100 User-Centred Blogs, including... Me!
Some guys at virtualhosting.com have produced a list of their "Top 100 User-centered Blogs", and I...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/31/2007
Discussion group: Design-led Innovation - Nov 22nd, Melbourne
I am leading a discussion around my “Design-led Innovation” talk for a Melbourne UX Community of...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/31/2007
Who needs designers?
"And you pay your designers how much?!?" Thanks to Clemens Lutsch for bringing this to our...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/30/2007
Emotional Design, not just Usable Design
At a presentation at ComputerShare last week I spoke about the various "flavours" of user...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/30/2007
The problem with UI specs
I met Rene de Paula, fellow UXE from Brazil, our "UX Summit" in Madrid(!) last week. In the break...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/21/2007
"Principles of Interaction Design" at OzCHI 2007, Adelaide 28th Nov 2007
I'll be teaching "Principles of Interaction Design" at OzCHI again this year, this time in Adelaide....
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/08/2007
Aussie Expression Users: Reveal Yourselves!
We've set up a little mailing list/group for Aussie Expression users. The intention is not to...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/04/2007
What's Expression?
"What's Expression?", Ron Jacobs asks Shane Morris, who even manages to slip a gag in! This video...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/03/2007
No Ideas but in Things
Only just found this while researching for a completely different blog post. Love it....
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/03/2007
User Feedback and the Halo Silverlight site
If you've got nothing nice to say... One of the problems with having joined Microsoft is that it's...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/22/2007
WPF, Silverlight and Expression neatly explained in New Zealandish
The guys at the ZamDes User Group over in Kiwiland have scraped together various info about WPF,...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/20/2007
Expression Blend 2 September Preview, and Expression Newsletter
A new preview of Expression Blend 2 - the September preview - is out now and it's free. It has lots...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/19/2007
ARCast UX interview - now with added vision
I ran into Ron Jacobs at TechEd and he told me the video has been posted for my interview with him...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/17/2007
All Blacks Silverlight Gadget
I've no intention of announcing every Silverlight site that appears, but the All Blacks sidebar...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/17/2007
UXIDIA Lunch in Melbourne this Fri (21st)
A bunch of us are getting together for lunch in Melbourne this Friday. Details here:...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/16/2007
Wireframing in Blend - Starter Project
Thanks to everyone who came along to my "Wireframing and Prototyping in Expression Blend" at Teched...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/13/2007
Readify Silverlight Workshop - Sydney 24-26 October
Readify are running a 3-day Silverlight workshop in October. Looking at the outline, this course is...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/11/2007
IdentityMine on the creation of the Entertainment Tonight Silverlight Emmy Awards site
Kordesy has found a great video on how the Entertainment Tonight Emmys site was designed and built...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/07/2007
Remix videos all up
Kordesy has done a sterling job and all the Remix videos are now up for viewing at Postmix.
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/06/2007
Anyone going to TechEd Malaysia?
I am doing 3 sessions at TechEd Malaysia next week. Be sure to say G'day! Designing with Expression...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/04/2007
Oz-IA registration open
Registrations are now open for the Oz-IA conference, in Sydney the weekend before Web Directions....
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/29/2007
Slides from my AIMIA talk
For anyone interested, here are the slides from my AIMIA talk on Wednesday: - Design-led Innovation...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/24/2007
Microsoft Web Experience DVD
Christian Longstaff is touting a "Microsoft Web Experience DVD". It's got a bunch of web development...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/16/2007
Rise of the 'deviner'
Builderau took me aside at TechEd last week and asked me about designer-developer collaboration, and...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/16/2007
Bad user! Bad!
It's not a good user experience when you feel you've been chastised by a computer program. All I did...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/15/2007
Bill Buxton on Design Thinking
Coincidental to my post on High and Low Fidelity prototyping, I only just found (thanks to Will...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/14/2007
Why I'm am interaction designer
At MIX the guys from Screenedit asked me what I like about interaction design. I think I need to...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/14/2007
High and Low Fidelity Prototyping
Gosh I love the serendipity that is Radio National. Today on Artworks they interviewed a 'Concept...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/14/2007
Remix videos on Postmix
(Postmix - where we take concentrated Remix syrup and add Silverlight. Or something.) Kordesy the...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/30/2007
Speaking at AIMIA Victoria Wed August 22
OK, reboot. I am speaking at AIMIA (Victoria) on Wed August 22nd. Design–led Innovation Just when we...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/20/2007
AIMIA talk delayed to August
Ok, so my AIMIA talk has been delayed - currently looking at dates in August. Stay tuned.
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/15/2007
Speaking at AIMIA Victoria Wed July 25
Update - this talk has been delayed to August 22 According to my diary I am speaking at AIMIA...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/15/2007
Age of User Experience comes to Perth - finally!
Chuck has aligned the planets and I'm heading west to do "The Age of User Experience" at the Perth...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/29/2007
Expression Designer workflow in a nutshell
Fellow UXE in Canada, Qixing Zheng, has posted a nice summary of a typical designer workflow using...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/28/2007
Bite-sized Silverlight tutorials for designers - a perfect fit for your attention span
function CreateSilverlight(){Sys.Silverlight.createHostedObjectEx({source:...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/27/2007
Silverlight community reaches beyond "Hello World"
The Silverlight ecosystem is hotting up with some nice stuff that goes beyond just taking it for a...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/27/2007
Designervsdeveloper.com.au - maybe we should issue all designers with square glasses?
Well it just goes to show you you can't tell a developer by their pocket protector anymore....
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/21/2007