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Posts Tagged ‘PDC’
PDC09
I am fortunate to be on the Microsoft team that hosts and develops the Microsoft PDC, Professional Developers Conference. The PDC conferences are the “premiere developer conference,” in the eyes of the community and brings thousands of attendees from all over the world. I was in the role of Creative Director for the PDC, and [...]
MIX Online: Designing the pdc09 Experience
I’ve posted a new Opinion to MIX Online. This one speaks to the design considerations when designing out the PDC09 experience. http://visitmix.com/Opinions/Designing-the-pdc09-Experience Throughout the lead-up and through the conference itself, I’ll try and provide insights into “the sausage-making” of an event like this, specifically geared toward the designers PDC09 Since 1991, the Professional Developers Conference [...]
New opinion: card sorting
During the initial exercise in working out the I.A. for the PDC09 site, we used the process of “card sorting.” It had been a while since I had gone through that exercise, and remembered how very useful it can be.
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!
PDC2008 Recap
I think it was interesting being the only designer in a sea of hardcore developers. In fact, some of the devs I spoke with were really surprised that Microsoft had people like me — Designers, people who care passionately about User Experience — actually worked here. The impression many had was we were 100% developer-focused, [...]
Oomph on DelicateGenius
Delicate Genius interviews Karstenj and Tim Aidlin on Oomph and Microformats
I’m going to The PDC
What: Microsoft Professional Developers ConferenceSince 1991, the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) has been Microsoft’s premier gathering of leading-edge developers and architects. Attend the PDC to understand the future of the Microsoft platform and to exchange ideas with fellow professionals. You’ll learn about upcoming products, meet Microsoft’s leaders and top engineers, write some code, and be [...]
Flotzam 2
With the unbelievable development help of Karsten Januszewski, we released the first second version of our application, Flotzam. DOWNLOAD NOW System Requirements: Windows Vista or Windows XP SP2 with .NET Framework 3.0 Internet connection We released this application preceeding the MIX08 conference, and invited users to “restyle” the application and resubmit it as part of [...]
PDC07 Website and Print Comps
Unfortunately, PDC07 was cancelled, but I had the opportunity to run through some ideas for the site and Creative.
Flotzam application in the Top 10
Readwriteweb.com chose the application that I created with Karsten Januszewski, Flotzam, as number 10 in the Top Ten Twitter Applications. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_10_twitter_apps.php
Flotzam Alpha
With the unbelieveable development help of Karsten Januszewski, we released the first Alpha version of our application, Flotzam. Watch the flotsam and jetsam of data that you care about in this mash-up of Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and blogs. Using this simple application, you can configure what you want to watch and the speed in which [...]