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		<title>Never Mind The Bullets</title>
		<link>http://thunderkick.us/blog/2011/10/26/never-mind-the-bullets</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>systim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Role: Creative/Art Direction Project Time: 6 Weeks Team: 6 contributors Art Director, Creative Director &#38; Business Manager, Development Lead, Junior Developer, Senior Visual Designer &#38; Project Manger, Junior Visual Designer Project Details: September 15, 2010, Microsoft held an event in San Francisco to announce the release of Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Beta. For this event, I engaged three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Archivist (alpha)</title>
		<link>http://thunderkick.us/blog/2011/09/05/the-archivist-web-alpha</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>systim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Role: Creative/Art Direction, Concept Development, Product Co-Owner, Front-End Development, Design Project Time: 6 Weeks Team: 2 contributors Art/Creative Direction + Front End Design &#38; Markup (HTML, CSS, JavaScript): Tim Aidlin (me); Development: Karsten Janusweski Project Details: Seeing a need to track user-sentiment, marketing campaigns, and general social memes, The Archivist was born. Invented by me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flotzam</title>
		<link>http://thunderkick.us/blog/2011/08/16/flotzam</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>systim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For MIX07, Karsten and I worked up version 1 (alpha) of Flotzam. Flotzam is a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application that pulls information from your social networks around the web, and visualizes them in a kinda cool way. Flotzam will pull tweets, Facebook status updates, YouTube videos, RSS feeds, and Diggs based on the search [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Floweroscope.com</title>
		<link>http://thunderkick.us/blog/2011/07/26/floweroscope</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>systim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Role: Creative/Art Direction + Project Management Project Time: 6 Weeks Team: 6 contributors Tim Aidlin, Microsoft: Art Director + La Surprise: Creative Director &#38; Business Manager, Development Lead, Junior Developer, Senior Visual Designer &#038; Project Manger, Junior Visual Designer Project Details: On September 15, 2010, Microsoft held an event in San Francisco to announce the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Design For Action</title>
		<link>http://thunderkick.us/blog/2010/04/19/design-for-action</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>systim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years I&#8217;ve often used hover-states, flyout panels, rollovers and mouse overs when designing user-interfaces. I’m beginning to rethink these methods, though, especially when designing for touch devices, cell phones, etc. In my opinion, interactions like these often hinder us because although they may work for the desktop or laptop scenario, they impede interactivity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Design For Tables&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thunderkick.us/blog/2010/02/14/design-for-tables</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>systim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Originally published on MIX Online, February, 2010] Years ago, around the time of MIX06, I had a great conversation with a friend who was working on a design for the Microsoft Surface. He said he had to basically re-learn user interface design during the process, since Surface’s screen presented a totally new user experience: a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transparency Yields Better Results</title>
		<link>http://thunderkick.us/blog/2010/01/27/transparency-yields-better-results</link>
		<comments>http://thunderkick.us/blog/2010/01/27/transparency-yields-better-results#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>systim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thunderkick.us/blog/?p=1115</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[Originally published on MIX Online, January, 2010] How do you get feedback on your projects? Do you do exhaustive user-testing before releasing a project to market, or trust your gut that you know you’ve made the right decisions? How does fear of losing your I.P. influence your decisions At MIX Online, we’re able to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incarnate: Find and use your avatar anywhere</title>
		<link>http://thunderkick.us/blog/2009/12/16/incarnate-find-and-use-your-avatar-anywhere</link>
		<comments>http://thunderkick.us/blog/2009/12/16/incarnate-find-and-use-your-avatar-anywhere#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>systim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Incarnate is a system that allows readers of a blog to use their already-existing avatars from common social-networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and XBox Live. Let the visitors to your blog use the avatars they already have. With Incarnate, users don&#8217;t need to upload a new avatar every time they want to drop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oomph2: A Microformats Toolkit</title>
		<link>http://thunderkick.us/blog/2009/08/25/oomph2-a-microformats-toolkit-now-available</link>
		<comments>http://thunderkick.us/blog/2009/08/25/oomph2-a-microformats-toolkit-now-available#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>systim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we released the latest version of Oomph: A Microformats Toolkit. Microformats are about enhancing the web, representing data in HTML and moving that data around. Oomph: A Microformats Toolkit is for web developers, designers and users, making it easier to create, consume, and style Microformats. Oomph makes consuming and producing content for the web [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WPF UI (and workflow primer/thoughts)</title>
		<link>http://thunderkick.us/blog/2008/06/02/wpf-ui-and-workflow-primerthoughts</link>
		<comments>http://thunderkick.us/blog/2008/06/02/wpf-ui-and-workflow-primerthoughts#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>systim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE SCENARIO The goal of the demo was to demonstrate new features in SQL Server both through local and web-based experiences.  The scenario we scripted focused on a business scenario in the Journalism field.  The idea was a business named Trey Research built a WPF application which would interact and sync with a public-facing website.  [...]]]></description>
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