Opinion: "Cheers to saying no"

I published a new Opinion today, which stemmed from a conversation Tami and I had about working with one potential client. I’ve been in this situation may times and it totally stinks. You’d like to get the work, you want to be nice, but you *know* that client is a total pain in the [...]

Feb 22, 2010 | Have your say »

SPLAB Launched

David Sherwin of Frog Design and I worked together to put together this website for SPLAB, a Seattle-based non-profit focused on spoken-word poetry. The site is built on Wordpress and was designed and developed in a week.

Visit SPLAB Now

Nov 03, 2009 | Have your say »

Some new Press for MIX Online and The work we do

Two new items came across the wire today, which I thought was pretty cool. First, "Sarah In Tampa" picked up on the new update to The Archivist, which Karsten implemented in the middle of one of our MIX Online meetings. I think it’s pretty cool. As Sarah states, this new update:
Fixes a couple of bugs [...]

Jul 30, 2009 | Have your say »

Glimmer in the Wild

Recently we on the MIX Online team here at Microsoft released Glimmer, a tool for adding jQuery animations to your website.  Fabian Anderwald, a web-designer, recently contacted us, letting us know about two sites he recently designed for customers.  He used Glimmer to produce a simple image-sequence and dropdown on these two sites.  Fabian [...]

Jul 06, 2009 | Have your say »

Where is the lavender frog?

Thanks to http://www.wpfdev.com/2008/10/22/mix-online-relaunch-beautiful-design-and-silverlight-goodness/

Nov 11, 2008 | Comments Off

MIX Online on istartedsomething.com

Big thanks to Long Zheng for the great write-up on the MIX Online re-launch.  He brings up a great point about the site:
In fact what’s pretty amazing is that the “MIX Online” site is validated 100% XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant. That’s something worth noting for a Microsoft site.

My fellow Designer/UXE, Nishant Kothary, really drove [...]

Oct 23, 2008 | Comments Off

MIX09 | <3 Your Web

Today we launched the MIX09 Conference site.  Our goal is to connect with designers, developers and web-technology enthusiasts to share knowledge and create community around “The Next Web Now.”
“There’s something different in the air at MIX09. Some might call it love – love of the interaction between designers and developers; love of inspiration and innovation [...]

Oct 22, 2008 | Comments Off

New Non-Profit Site

Be sure to check out the newly-redesigned-by-me JustCauz.org site.  
The Just Cauz Foundation raises money and awareness for local non-profits through social events that are aimed at Seattle’s young professionals. Our goal is to make it as easy as possible for young people in Seattle to give back to their community, while appreciating the time [...]

Mar 25, 2008 | Comments Off

MIX08 Event Site

Using strict CSS and symantic HMTL, I created the MIX08 Conference site (shown) and Blog site, both of which were pushed live in November of 2008.
Designed in Microsoft Expression Blend, a Silverlight module was included on the homepage, as well, which led to registration.
Now in its third year, MIX is an intimate opportunity for cutting-edge [...]

Oct 28, 2007 | Comments Off

Uberdemo (MSFT Internal) released

So, yes, this is an internal-to-Microsoft only site, but I figured I’d at least post a screenshot.  My main task at work is to design and develop demonstrations used in conferences, to work with partners, etc … to demonstrate next-generation technologies such as Silverlight, Expression Blend, WPF, XAML, and the like.  My team has developed [...]

Oct 26, 2007 | Comments Off

Keep It Simple, Stupid! | Smashing Magazine

The Mix07 site that I designed has been picked up as one of the top 50 sites of 2006 designed using CSS. Yay for me.
Link to Keep It Simple, Stupid! | Smashing Magazine

Mar 28, 2007 | Comments Off