KC Lemson
By KC Lemson [MS]
Waiting for my kindle...
I ordered it a few weeks ago, but they're behind on production, so it took until yesterday to ship...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/08/2008
It's like the sun has been blacked out...
To find out about this.
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 02/06/2008
Dancing concallers
OK, any softies... check this one out, it's making the rounds. I am dying laughing. Guys... that was...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 01/30/2008
It's the little things
The Shane Company has a great example of a slick usability trick in their print-out ring sizer, for...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 01/26/2008
Trying to enforce meaningless rules in your UI: Bad
On https://shop.lego.com, while trying to check out, I got to this UI for filling out my...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 01/24/2008
The power of words
I have worked in UX for over a year now, and nearly every single day, I learn something new from my...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 01/22/2008
Finally, a Microsoft ad campaign I can get behind.
The Windows Server & Home Server teams have done some fantastic advertising campaigns recently,...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 01/16/2008
Happy To Me
My husband outdid himself this year... he got me a Garmin Forerunner 305, a running watch that has a...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 01/03/2008
Sort data in Excel in "High, Medium, Low" order
Occasionally I have data that looks like this, sorted on the "Value" column: It's always annoyed me...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 12/14/2007
Joel Spolsky's latest article
Is a nice read, covering a lot of interesting topics, some of the more meaningful points as I see...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 12/05/2007
Get text pasted into Word/Outlook to format properly
If you're like me and do a lot of copying content from other applications into Word and Outlook,...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 12/04/2007
Happy holidays
For my family, that means: (it's a silverlight app that lights one candle per night) Thanks,...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 12/04/2007
A note to my good friend Paul
Next time you invite someone out of the blue to "help out with a demo of video conferencing", make...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 12/04/2007
How ego surfing changes over time
It started out simple, really - just on dejanews, as a way of finding out what conversations I've...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 11/30/2007
How to get rid of that *@#$@#$ annoying language bar in XP
It is a testament to the intransigence of the human spirit that for the last 6 years of my life I...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 11/29/2007
In the spirit...
These are pretty funny. And while I'm at it, here is the Coolest. Costume. Ever. And it just so...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 10/31/2007
Debating...
I am thinking there's a lot of comedic potential here, for exchange geeks like me at least. :-)
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 09/01/2007
New career site
Various teams across the company have created what are called 'microsites' aimed at recruiting,...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 08/29/2007
The 20/20 program
As I mentioned, I just started the 20/20 program at the proclub. As part of getting ready for...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 08/20/2007
Running
I just joined the 20/20 program at the proclub in order to get myself into shape, and as part of my...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 08/18/2007
New OWA themes in SP1: Zune & Xbox!
As I mentioned a couple months ago, we have been working on two new OWA themes. I was secretive then...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 08/14/2007
Count the number of folders in your mailbox with Outlook VBA
A coworker asked me today if I knew how to count up the total number of folders in his mailbox, in...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 08/01/2007
How to determine if your users are satisfied
Well, I'll tell you one way to not do it, which is to measure against user expectations without any...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 07/09/2007
Newest Technet article is up
https://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/07/ExchangeQA/default.aspx My contributions...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 07/03/2007
Least obvious yet terribly useful Outlook/OWA calendaring feature...
While reviewing some custom OWA themes we're developing, one of the designers pointed out this odd...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 06/28/2007
rockin' out
Don't fault him because he hasn't five starred every song... ;-) P.S. I absolutely hate the face...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 06/27/2007
Don't fail me now, zune...
Agh. I have been meaning to buy a bunch of the tracks from Guitar Hero and add them to my zune. So I...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 06/23/2007
Ideas for new Outlook macros?
An email with a coworker who was recently acquired and is getting accustomed to Outlook after years...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 06/19/2007
A sign that mommy's playing too much world of warcraft
My son and husband and I were at the park, in the playground area which is enclosed by a cement...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 06/06/2007
Quality in action
Last July, I ran this search:...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 06/06/2007
I might be too old for this...
But after getting a demo of facebook today, I created a profile. For someone who's been working on...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 05/31/2007
Technet column readership patterns
So, I've been writing it for a few months - January, March and May have been published, July's in...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 05/23/2007
"Oops"
From the "I'm easily amused" files: From: Expedia Travel Deals [usmail@expediamail.com]Sent:...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 05/23/2007
Behind the scenes of software development
Saveen pointed me at these blogs about product development at Adobe. Pretty interesting reads,...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 04/20/2007
Best. Ship Gift. Ever.
It's a tradition with most major product releases that there's a ship gift for the product team and...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 01/24/2007
Exchange admins - help me with an experiment?
We talk to Exchange admins all the time about what their pain points are, what they wish was...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 01/16/2007
Funny how things go...
A while ago, I mentioned that I am now the User Experience manager for Exchange, over the design...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 01/09/2007
The danger of multiple geeks in one household
An old story I was reminded of today between me and my husband: Me: "Can you think of a reason why...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 01/04/2007
First installment of Queue & A is live
As I mentioned several months ago, I'm writing a column for Technet magazine. The first one is now...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 01/02/2007
See who's answering the phone at Microsoft
Call (425) 707-7500.
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 12/20/2006
Off the grid
As others have mentioned, there was a big wind storm last thursday and a huge number of people in...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 12/20/2006
In case you hadn't heard yet...
We RTM'd last Friday. Awww yeah! As some of us were discussing on friday, "RTM day" is really a...
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 12/11/2006
I've got a feva, and the only cure is shipping Exchange 2007
We're very very close now. :-) More cowbell, baby!
Author: KC Lemson [MSFT] Date: 12/06/2006