Shane Morris: UXB
A User eXperience Blog, by a User eXperience Bloke
Free online Expression training!
Arturo Toledo, our UX technical product manager back in Redmond has pointed out some free Expression...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/06/2007
Surfaces, darling
"I just want SURFACES, darling. I don't want this, look, I don't want this. I don't want THINGS on...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/30/2007
And I'm speaking at Web Standards Group in Melbourne on June 7th.
Same topic: "Designers and Developers - Learning to get along". Keep an eye on the Web Standards...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/24/2007
Make the logo bigger.
This is dedicated to a special client of mine. Make the logo bigger MP3 You know who you are!
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/22/2007
Discretionary use of Mandatory tools, or...
... or, "I wonder if Frank would let me expense a joystick for my desk?" Frank noticed this article...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/21/2007
WSG talk moved to May 31
Just a quick note that my WSG talk in Sydney has moved to May 31 due to venue problems. Sorry for...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/15/2007
ReMIX brings the best of MIX downunder
So I've just returned from MIX and CHI. My tutes seemed to go well at CHI, and MIX was great fun....
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/10/2007
Web Standards Group Sydney: Designers and developers - learning to get along
UPDATE: This talk has moved to the 31st of May, at UTS. I'll be presenting at Web Standards Group in...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/19/2007
Sydney Morning Herald: Microsoft, Adobe competition heats up
Thanks to an alert friend who just pointed this out to me. An interesting article in the SMH (and...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/17/2007
Everybody listen to me! ARCast.net
Back before I joined Microsoft (but while I was in the end of a seemingly endless series of job...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/17/2007
Expression Blend and Expression Web to be included with MSDN Premium
I'm probably the last Microsoft blogger on the planet to cover this, but Microsoft has decided to...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/10/2007
Get a (bigger) room! Age of UX Melb gets upsized.
Apologies to all those who have not been able to register for Age of User Experience in Melbourne -...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/05/2007
XBAPs for Firefox coming
I read on Ryan Stewarts blog that XBAP support for Firefox is coming. [Translation: XBAP's are WPF...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/27/2007
Age of User Experience - Sydney, Brisbane (2) and Melbourne
Well, we've finally got our act together and scheduled the Age of User Experience briefings for...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/26/2007
The Age of User Experience - Sydney (11/4), Brisbane (12/4 & 13/4), Melbourne (18/4)
You are invited to attend a Microsoft briefing on "The Age of User Experience" . Where an d When...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/26/2007
Interaction Design - weakest at the joins
On By Design this morning on Radio National, they were talking about the role corners have in urban...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/24/2007
Form AND Function - the alternate Google homepages
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Google is introducing themed alternative homepages! OMG! The...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/21/2007
Stop by for a drink on Microsoft at WebDU
As per tradition, Microsoft is buying the drinks after the WebDU dinner in Sydney on Thursday night....
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/19/2007
Blog Mini-makeover
Because we evangelists get renumerated based on the number of blog posts we make (well it feels that...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/16/2007
Seeking a Great User Experience with seek.com.au
Mia Northrop, Senior Site Producer at Seek was interviewed by Ron Jacobs from Microsoft/ARCast when...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/14/2007
Getting started with Microsoft’s UX platform
Thanks to the guys over at Microsoft UK for taking one of the things off my to-do list. They've...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/08/2007
Custom WPF keyboard on UMPC and four on the floor
You know, being a Microsoft evangelist isn't all just sitting around in cafes and playing with the...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/07/2007
What's better than usability testing?
Catching up on my reading, today I finally read this Microsoft Watch article on the Office 2007...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/06/2007
Your official source for sample WPF apps
If you're looking for samples of all the good stuff you can do with WPF, then go no further than the...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 02/28/2007
Age of UX - one down
Well the first Age of UX event really well - I think. The numbers were great, there were lots of...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 02/28/2007
MIXing it up in Vegas
Registrations are well-and-truly open for MIX. MIX 07 is Microsoft's second conference for all...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 02/01/2007
2 Yins for every Yang
Obviously, Scott Barnes just doesn't have enough firepower to keep up with me, so Frank has provided...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/30/2007
The yin to my yang
Everybody please welcome Scott Barnes. Scott is our shiny new web VAR evangelist, based in Brisbane....
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/11/2007
iPhone design and sub-pixellating
I'm sure you'll have no problems finding iPhone content. I'll just pick this one, which tells a bit...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/09/2007
Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista
Check out this video preview of Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista.Uses lots of whizzy WPF and Vista...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/08/2007
BlueScreen2007
User Experience Principle #2: The user should always feel in control. So I've been going through the...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/03/2007
Free tickets - "Interaction Design Studio" dry-run
I am running a new tutorial entitled “Interaction Design Studio” at CHI07. This is a spin-off from...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/01/2007
Designer crunch time - 2007 the year of the Rich Internet App?
This post by Ryan Stewart on ZDNet predicts big things for Rich Internet Applications (RIA's) in...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/21/2006
WPF online chat this Friday
For those who like to get up early just before Christmas, the WPF team at Microsoft are holding an...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/19/2006
Don't clck it
A really interesting UI concept to avoid clicks. Educational value only. What's wrong with clicks...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/18/2006
User Experience Maturity Model - Microsoft Style
Internally at MS we've been talking about how to define and assess an organisation's "user...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/18/2006
Help Shane get to Designertopia
So Darren McCormick the UXE "Role Owner" at "Corp" (see my Microsoft induction training is working)...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/07/2006
Who's better at parking a car - person or computer?
First (?) rule of user experience: Computers are good at doing some things (counting) and people are...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/07/2006
A busy week at OzCHI
Next week I will be at OzCHI in Sydney. OzCHI is the annual conference of CHISIG, the...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/14/2006
Danger UXB
"UXB" stands for "User eXperience Blog", "User eXperience Bloke" and "UneXploded Bomb", in no...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/10/2006