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Archive for April, 2009
Flotzam: screencast of the week
Betsy Weber just published a nice blog-post regarding Flotzam, the WPF application Karsten Januszewski and I (with some great help from Hans Hugli) developed and have been running at the MIX and PDC conferences for the last 3 years. Check it out!
Glimmer on “the knowledge chamber”
I did an interview with Robert Hess for his webcast, “The Knowledge Chamber,” regarding the new software the MIX Online team has rolled out, Glimmer. Robert’s a great host and I fee fortunate that he was able to give me a little time to discuss this great new tool.
Be sure to check out Glimmer [...]
Designing Glimmer in WPF
Glimmer: a jQuery Interactive Design Tool is a prototype from the Mix Online Labs which makes jQuery accessible through a visual tool. The objective for Glimmer is pretty simple: to enable the power of jQuery through an interactive design surface. If jQuery is the “write less, do more” JavaScript library, then Glimmer is the “write none, do more” jQuery design tool. Glimmer has three core audiences: power users, designers and developers.
Students at MIX09
The MIX09 team had the opportunity to invite 200 students from design programs in various colleges around the country.
Eight design students from the University of Cincinnati’s internationally ranked School of Design, part of the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP), obtained a rare, first-hand look at potential innovations that could radically change the [...]
Nice things from zdnet
I thought this write up about the online experience for MIX09 was particularly flattering.
Microsoft are doing a terrific job of demonstrating how to run a conference with their Mix09 conference …
A live feed of keynote content – speakers and what appears on the projection screens – is right there on the front page along [...]
Interview on Channel9
This interview’s been up for a little while, but thought I’d at least get an archive of it as a reference point for later. I thought it was a good interview revolving around the developer/designer workflow and what I thought would be good design-oriented sessions at MIX09
Tim Aidlin, is a User Experience (aka "UX") [...]