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As I hinted a few weeks ago, I'm changing jobs again. My last role change was over a year ago, that's almost a record for me.

My new job is being the UX Manager for the next release of Exchange. I will be leading a team of designers and researchers on the UX (User Experience) team. The UX team played a big role in some of the awesome UI in Exchange 2007, like OWA, the scheduling assistant and the new administrative console and for the next release of E14 we're going to blow your mind. : -)

I don't fully transition into this role until we ship Exchange 12, but I'm starting to pick up bits and pieces of the job as some of the product team is already starting to brainstorm what we should do in the next release and I need to be involved to figure out our rough plans and priorities and coordinate the necessary research and design prototyping. At some point in the future when I get more ramped up I'll be blogging about how we do design and research, some peeks behind the scenes.

We spent a lot of time in E12 nailing the architecture - the GUI layered on top of the cmdline, the common business logic layer that ensures that declining a meeting request acts the same whether or not it happens in OWA or your mobile device or via a line of business application using web services, the transport agent architecture that we also internally consume, etc. Fortunately we also spent a lot of time investing in features and scenarios to wow administrators, end users and developers alike as you hopefully have seen for yourselves already. In the next release I look forward to doing even more of that. To quote one of our TAP customers, "The platform you've got now, the next version's going to be mindboggling."

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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    A while ago, I mentioned that I am now the User Experience manager for Exchange, over the design &

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    TAP will remain in good hands - Paul Bowden is taking over TAP, in addition to release management.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    We realize we just shipped Exchange Server 2007, but we're already hard at work in defining where we...

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    A coworker recently forwarded around this article from the New Yorker that talks about feature creep

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    I have worked in UX for over a year now , and nearly every single day, I learn something new from my

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    So we could make this an endless questionaire... who will take over pauls role for exbpa... :-) no, just kidding! But, as always, I'd love to give feedback for the new release... Christian

  • Anonymous
    October 11, 2006
    Well congratulations on the new job, it sounds like a fun change (and don't worry we won't tell your husband you are afraid to commit)!! So who is going to take over your existing roll for the E14 release?

  • Anonymous
    October 18, 2006
    And I love to take it. We're always in feedback mode with comments on my blog or EHLO, but I also plan on doing some focused blogging of new scenarios or UI prototypes to get feedback in that manner as well.