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Free Training on Expression Blend and Expression Design on Lynda.com
Expression Studio is a very valuable asset in the toolkits of designers and developers for building...
Author: Date: 06/05/2007
Silverlight: Nominated for the CNET Webware 100 Awards
Despite the fact Silverlight was just launched officially over the past few months and what...
Author: Date: 06/04/2007
MIX08 - Get ready because it's coming next year!
Well, it's official. With MIX07 being wildly successful, it has been announced that MIX will be...
Author: Date: 06/01/2007
Microsoft Surface - Blending Virtual and Physical Worlds
When I was doing my masters degree at UBC CS, I had the chance to expose to many innovative ways...
Author: qixing Date: 06/01/2007
Introducing Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map
The Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map is a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)...
Author: qixing Date: 05/31/2007
The Canadian New Media Award (CNMA) Experience
My CNMA overall experience: it felt like the Oscar award show for new media design, and I was very...
Author: qixing Date: 05/29/2007
WPF/Silverlight and Expression Resource Part II
There are so many great resources on WPF/Silverlight and Expression Studio available after MIX. It's...
Author: qixing Date: 05/28/2007
Popfly - creating your own mash-ups in minutes
Popfly is the fun and easy way to build and share mash-ups, gadgets and Web pages using pre-built...
Author: qixing Date: 05/22/2007
Design Camp Waterloo - Part II
Following Part I of Design Camp, I'll talk about the design challenge in the post. The Challenge The...
Author: qixing Date: 05/20/2007
Design Camp Waterloo - Part I
Last Thursday (May 17), University of Waterloo students put on the first Design Camp in the area....
Author: qixing Date: 05/20/2007
Create a Sidebar Gadget, have a chance to win a 40" TV or an XBOX 360!
One of the things we talked about in our Innovation Briefing on RIA was Sidebar Gadgets. In that...
Author: Date: 05/17/2007
Welcome David Crow!
Many of you probably already know that David Crow will be joining our community evangelism team as a...
Author: qixing Date: 05/16/2007
Understanding Silverlight
Silverlight was announced both at NAB (National Association of Broadcasting Conference) and MIX....
Author: qixing Date: 05/07/2007
The MIX07 sessions are starting to be posted on the MIX website
Good news! It looks like a lot of the breakout sessions from MIX07 are being posted to...
Author: Date: 05/02/2007
Silverlight Airlines - A cool MIX demo, now available to you
One of the demos that really sticks in my mind from the whirlwind that has been MIX07 was...
Author: Date: 05/02/2007
Robbie Bach is speaking right now at MIX
Robbie Bach, the President of Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices group (yes, that includes the...
Author: Date: 05/01/2007
Notes from the field - interesting points from MIX07 breakouts
It's been an eventful day-and-a-half of breakout sessions at MIX with a lot of great info. I...
Author: Date: 05/01/2007
Beautiful WPF-based MIX Mash-Up from Thirteen23
This is a sweet app. https://www.thirteen23.com/labs/wpf/mixme/ It’s a Flickr mash-up, agenda...
Author: joxley Date: 05/01/2007
Experience Matters!
In addition to the very exciting announcements that were made in this morning's keynote were some...
Author: Date: 04/30/2007
Keynote Messages
We just finished listening to the opening keynote. The keynote is full of excitements with the...
Author: qixing Date: 04/30/2007
MIX07 Keynote is available on live streaming
The MIX07 keynote is now available on live streaming video. You can check it out at...
Author: Date: 04/30/2007
MIX Day 1 kicks off!
MIX really kicks into high gear today with an important keynote at 9:30AM PT from Ray Ozzie and...
Author: Date: 04/30/2007
Get ready for MIX07!
Hello, everyone! First off, it's great to be blogging on this site. As Qixing has mentioned in a...
Author: Date: 04/28/2007
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Author: qixing Date: 04/28/2007
Welcome our new blogger Paul!
As our Microsoft Canada team heading down to MIX, Paul Laberge (our Partner Developer Advisor) and I...
Author: qixing Date: 04/27/2007
Create a Resource Viewer Using Expression Blend
In an earlier post, I aggregated a list of WPF and Expression resource. The list is in plain test...
Author: qixing Date: 04/24/2007
MIX is less than a week away!
Time flies when you are having fun! I can't believe it has been almost two months since I started my...
Author: qixing Date: 04/24/2007
Sheridan Interactive Multimedia Open House
I had a great time today visiting Sheridan Interactive Multimedia Openhouse (Oakville, Ontario)....
Author: qixing Date: 04/19/2007
Designers and Developers Working Together!
One of the most interesting things I want to find out about Expression Studio is how designers and...
Author: qixing Date: 04/18/2007
Introducing Microsoft Silverlight - Light up the web
Yes! Windows Presentation Foundation /Everywhere (WPF/E) now has an official name - Microsoft...
Author: qixing Date: 04/16/2007
From Expression Design to Blend: a life of a WPF button
People are interested in learning about how they can use Expression Design and Blend together to...
Author: qixing Date: 04/14/2007
WPF and Expression Resource
Please see the part II of this post here, which includes resources for Silverlight. Where can I...
Author: qixing Date: 04/08/2007
Expression Web joins MSDN subscription family
I’m very happy to tell everyone that Expression Web is now available to MSDN premium subscribers....
Author: qixing Date: 04/04/2007
Blog Content Directions
Over the weekend, I had a chance to think about what content to put on this UX blog. I want to hear...
Author: qixing Date: 03/28/2007
Aggregating Design News
I just found out this great website called "Design-Feed.net." It makes designers happier by...
Author: qixing Date: 03/26/2007
My First TorCHI Meeting
I went to my first TorCHI meeting at Autodesk Toronto office last night. I was also my first time...
Author: qixing Date: 03/22/2007
UX Roundtable Comments
Ever since John told me about the UX Roundtable event at Redmond last month, I’ve been really...
Author: qixing Date: 03/20/2007
TorCHI Meeting
After settling in Toronto for two weeks and starting my role as user experience advisor at...
Author: qixing Date: 03/20/2007
Microsoft Canada's first User Experience Advisor: Qixing Zheng
I'm proud to announce the newest addition to our team and Microsoft Canada's first User Experience...
Author: joxley Date: 03/01/2007
Why RIAs are so much fun.
Making applications better and more fun is something that can engage a wider range of users and get...
Author: joxley Date: 02/14/2007
Are you our next User Experience Advisor!!!
Ok, cool the conversation has work and Mark is in! Check out his post User Experience / Design and...
Author: joxley Date: 01/24/2007
Momentum is building
I've spent the last week selling the need for another UX Advisor in Canada. As I highlighted in a...
Author: joxley Date: 01/22/2007
Nanocasting
I was reading a great post on Jay Cross's Internet time blog on Nanocasting. I really liked the...
Author: joxley Date: 01/16/2007
Social Hiring the UX Intern - my learnings
I know..I know. I've been remiss in keeping everyone up to date on the hiring process. The reality...
Author: joxley Date: 01/15/2007