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Team Blackshirt – Gadget Builders

In Windows Vista you’ll notice a great new feature on your desktop: Sidebar Gadgets. Gadgets are simple mini-applications that beautifully perform a single task. Like the nicely rendered analog Clock Gadget that tells you the time, or the Notes Gadget that lets you quickly jot down something.

Designers Matter

When a website or application offers a great user experience, users become more efficient, effective and satisfied with your brand and services. Superior user experiences can differentiate a product or business from its competitors, and can be a key driver of adoption decisions, long-term loyalty, and desire for repeat use.

A Better Web with WPF/E

Expression product manager Arturo Toledo sat down with Brazilian interactive media designer Celso Gomes to get the lowdown on the new technology code-named "WPF/E."

 

Interviews

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Events

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Articles

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  • The Web Shouldn't Be a Comedy of Errors >
  • Fitts’s UI Law Applied to the Web >
  • Why Good Design Comes from Bad Design >
  • UI That Kills: Swords, Craft, and User Interfaces >
  • The Power of the Usability Lab >
  • How To Avoid Foolish Consistency >
  • The Importance of Simplicity: Create Ease of Use Without Losing Power >
  • The Essential Bookshelf for Good UI Design >
  • Making Usable Products: An Informal Process for Good User Interfaces >
  • Why Are Good User Interfaces So Hard to Make? Three Insights into Good Design >

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See Job Openings

See Job Openings

See Microsoft’s design related job openings.

 

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Blogs

Brad Becker: ScaryNoises, adventures in experience design

Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog

mac mojo: a Mac Office blog

Video

Introducing Windows Vista Sidebar and developing a gadget

Introducing Windows Vista Sidebar
and developing a gadget

 
Windows Vista Aero Glass and Usability

Windows Vista
Aero Glass and Usability

 
Typography in Windows Vista

Cleartype Team
Typography in Windows Vista

 
Designing Experiences at Microsoft

Jenny Lam
Designing Experiences at Microsoft

 
Behind the scenes at Windows Vista recording session

Robert Fripp
Behind the scenes at Windows Vista recording session

 
Windows Vista Sidebar and Gadgets

Sean Alexander (and others)
Windows Vista Sidebar and Gadgets

 
Looking at Windows Vista's user interface (AERO)

Kam Vedbrat
Looking at Windows Vista's user interface (AERO)

 
Light up an app with WPF (formerly Avalon)

Adam Nathan
Light up an app with WPF (formerly Avalon)

 
How the Longhorn graphics team works with the Usability team

Kam Vedbrat
How the Longhorn graphics team works with the Usability team

 
 

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