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[Mini-Tutorial] Blend 3: Rich Interactivity with No Code
The idea of creating rich interactivity without code should sound very appearing to designers,...
Author: qixing Date: 06/30/2009
[Mini-Tutorial] Blend 3: Visual Data Binding
As your project evolves from simple sketches to prototypes, you may want to add some real...
Author: qixing Date: 06/29/2009
[Mini-Tutorial] Blend 3: SketchFlow Part II
Bill Buxton talks about the difference between “Sketch” and “Prototype” in this his Sketching User...
Author: qixing Date: 06/28/2009
[Mini-Tutorial] Blend 3: SketchFlow Part I
Two years and an half ago, when I first joined Microsoft, we were getting ready to release...
Author: qixing Date: 06/28/2009
SketchFlow and Blend 3 Presentation at Waterloo
So, you have a great design idea… How do you turn your conceptual design ideas into rich...
Author: qixing Date: 06/19/2009
Design Student of the Month – Jin Fan
There are a lot of creative students in Canada who are doing innovative work to improve people's...
Author: qixing Date: 06/16/2009
Designers are Evangelists
Do you think designers are evangelists? Outside of the religion context, an evangelist “is a person...
Author: qixing Date: 06/08/2009
How to Best Work and Connect with You?
It’s survey time. Wait! Don’t run away yet. It’s a survey to ensure that our team correctly...
Author: qixing Date: 06/03/2009
The Art of SEO and IIS
If you develop/design public websites for your customers, you likely already know first-hand how...
Author: Date: 06/03/2009
Search It with Bing
Bing is the new Microsoft search experience and it’s live now for Canada! I’ve been using it for a...
Author: qixing Date: 06/01/2009
TechDays Expands to Another city in 2009!!
TechDays 2008 was such a success that we had many comments and feedback that we should expand it to...
Author: qixing Date: 06/01/2009
Vancouver / Toronto Event: Make Web, Not War Episode 2009
As a solution provider, the web presents an ever increasing opportunity to grow your business. ...
Author: Date: 06/01/2009
Opportunity Rings – WIT Event
Continuing connecting with women in IT, we have a joint event next month with...
Author: qixing Date: 05/26/2009
[Podcast] Microsoft Designer: Aaron Woo from Windows Mobile Team
There are about 750 UX designers and researchers working at Microsoft. People in the UX community...
Author: qixing Date: 05/25/2009
Design Student of the Month - Salpy Elizabeth Kelian
There are a lot of creative students in Canada who are doing innovative work to improve people's...
Author: qixing Date: 05/20/2009
TechDays 2009 Community Team
As we are planning for TechDays 2009, my colleague Rodney Buike organized a community team, whose...
Author: qixing Date: 05/14/2009
[Podcast] Microsoft Designer: Allison Gallant from XDR
There are about 750 UX designers and researchers working at Microsoft. People in the UX community...
Author: qixing Date: 05/10/2009
UX Design and Research Training at Microsoft
UX community within Microsoft is growing rapidly. Both UX designers and researchers play...
Author: qixing Date: 05/08/2009
Try out Win7 RC Today!
Window 7 Release Candidate is available for public download today! Throughout our EnergizeIT tour...
Author: qixing Date: 05/05/2009
Mini-Demo: Windows 7 Desktop
As we are wrapping up all our EnergizeIT events this week, I thought to record my demo on Windows 7...
Author: qixing Date: 04/30/2009
Check Out the New Silverlight Blog!
Hard to keep up with what’s new in Silverlight and Expression? Check out the Silverlight blog...
Author: qixing Date: 04/30/2009
Expression Resource for Designers
In the last Silverlight User Group meeting, someone asked me about Expression and Silverlight...
Author: qixing Date: 04/23/2009
Blog on UX Quotes
I was looking for a good UX quote yesterday and discovered the “inspireUX” blog which is dedicated...
Author: qixing Date: 04/23/2009
All About Mobile
As I was doing my daily reading this morning, I came across three presentations related to mobile...
Author: qixing Date: 04/20/2009
Design Student of the Month – Sara Salevati
There are a lot of creative students in Canada who are doing innovative work to improve people's...
Author: qixing Date: 04/15/2009
Webby Award Powered by Silverlight
Webby Award is like the Oscar Awards for internet creations. It is the largest, most prestigious...
Author: qixing Date: 04/15/2009
New Design for MSDN Newsletter
Yesterday we sent out our newly designed MSDN Developer Newsletter. Many of you have already sent...
Author: qixing Date: 04/09/2009
WIT Webcast Summary and Answers to Your Questions
Yesterday we successfully conducted the Women in IT Panel Discussion webcast, which is a new...
Author: qixing Date: 04/08/2009
MIX09 Debrief at the Next Silverlight User Group Meeting
We had several Toronto Silverlight User Group members attended MIX09 last month in Vegas. In the...
Author: qixing Date: 04/07/2009
Blending Physical and Virtual Reality
If you haven’t seen the video below, you have to check it out! It’s one of the coolest Surface demos...
Author: qixing Date: 03/31/2009
Design Principles at Microsoft
Functioning Form is one of my favorite design blogs, last Friday author Luke Wroblewski summarized...
Author: qixing Date: 03/29/2009
EnergizeIT Kitchener and London
This week Rod, Joey and I kicked off the EnergizeIT tour on the west coast. Joey showed you the Road...
Author: qixing Date: 03/26/2009
Guest Post: MIX09 Inspirations: Back to the Drawing Board
From now through the end of the MIX09 conference in Las Vegas, Rob Burke will be providing his...
Author: Date: 03/23/2009
Return on Experience – learning from 3 Keynotes
I watched three inspiring keynotes this week: two from MIX and Robert Fabricant's Interations’09...
Author: qixing Date: 03/22/2009
Guest Post: MIX09 Day 2: “Return on Experience”
From now through the end of the MIX09 conference in Las Vegas, Rob Burke will be providing his...
Author: Date: 03/20/2009
IE8 and Stories From Home
There are lots of exciting announcements coming out of MIX in Vegas this week. Today we shipped...
Author: qixing Date: 03/19/2009
Guest Post: MIX09 Day 1: The “Software” in “Software + Services”
From now through the end of the MIX09 conference in Las Vegas, Rob Burke will be providing his...
Author: Date: 03/19/2009
Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend 3 Betas Now Available!
Silverlight 3 Beta Today at the MIX ‘09 conference, we rolled out the beta for Silverlight 3, the...
Author: qixing Date: 03/18/2009
Guest Post: MIX09 Welcome Swag (includes Sketching UX book!)
From now through the end of the MIX09 conference in Las Vegas, Rob Burke will be providing his...
Author: Date: 03/18/2009
Windows 7 Search Connectors
One of the features I really enjoy using on Windows 7 is Search Connectors. It’s a great example of...
Author: qixing Date: 03/17/2009
A Brief History of MIX: Feet on Ground, Eyes on Cloud
From now through the end of the MIX09 conference in Las Vegas, Rob Burke will be providing his...
Author: Date: 03/16/2009
Design Student of the Month – Dandan Huang
There are a lot of creative students in Canada who are doing innovative work to improve people's...
Author: qixing Date: 03/12/2009
Software + Service in Plain English
As I was searching around earlier this week for a good way of explaining “Software + Service,” the...
Author: qixing Date: 03/12/2009
Join the Microsoft Partner Program, Get Expression Web
Microsoft Canada has a great offer for any Canadian web solution provider that isn’t already a...
Author: Date: 03/12/2009
Understanding the Microsoft Web Platform
A common complaint that I hear from people who build web solutions is that when they try to start...
Author: Date: 03/11/2009
Microsoft Surface Blog by Infusion
Last year during Explore Design conference, our friends at Infusion showcased the various Surface...
Author: qixing Date: 03/10/2009