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MIX 08 is coming quickly. In this third edition, Steve Ballmer, Scott Guthrie, Guy Kawasaki and other distinguished speakers will join us at Vegas to engage Microsoft in a conversation about the future of the web. This is a tremendous opportunity for you to connect with experts on a wide range of topics around TV, mobile, PC, Windows, commerce, etc.
This year, we are opening a specific UX track for creatives & designers. It’s three days of content supported by Adaptive Path, Lou Carbone, David Armano, Dan Roam, Kim Lenox and others.
The winners of the regional PhizzPop Design Challenge agency competition brought some serious smackdown in Round 1. Check out the winners, the problem statements and all the coverage on the PhizzPop design challenge web site. Congratulations to winners Thirteen23, AKQA, Cynergy, Clarity, CreateThe, and Outsight Interactive.
Each of these winning agency teams will compete in the finale at South by Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas on March 10th. Please join us if you are in town. Register at http://designchallenge.phizzpop.com.
The Expression Team
In this interview, August de los Reyes reveals some details about his role as the Experience Architect of Microsoft Surface project, the role and impact of designers at Microsoft, and the importance of design in general.
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There’s no better way to test a platform than getting it’s potential users to build applications on it. The Artists in Residency program was established exactly for this reason: To invite pairs of designers and developer and ask them to create projects with Expression Studio and Silverlight which push the platform to it’s limit. Read more
Of all the current trends in user interface design, the most interesting, most beneficial and most difficult is simplicity. If designers are going to successfully embrace simplicity, then we have to understand where this trend comes from and the principles behind simplifying our designs.
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In this second installment of his article about the Designer role, Dax Pandhi moves past the theories and presents some very specific, practical examples: an animated image button, skinning an entire application, and protecting your intellectual property. Read more
While Expression Media does not have a feature for transferring images to your favorite online photo service, it’s easy to make Expression Media work with these services by using the Helper Application feature. This tutorial covers how to transfer images from your Expression Media catalog to Flickr, Yahoo’s popular online photo sharing service, using the upload tools: Flickr Uploadr, 1001 and PictureSync. Read more
 The Imagine Cup Interface Design Accessibility Award: Here’s your chance to build flexible and compelling applications and Web sites that empower people with impairments. Read more |
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 An intimate opportunity for cutting-edge technical, creative and business strategists to engage Microsoft in a conversation about the future of the Web, March 5-7, 2008 in Las Vegas, NV.
Read the program of sessions for designers. |
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 The PhizzPop Design Challenge pits top interactive, Web, and design agencies against one another in a battle of development, design, and creativity.
Visit designchallenge.phizzpop.com to reserve your spot. Space is limited, so register today. |
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 Debuting at MIX08, MIX UX puts the focus on the practice of user experience through the insights of Lou Carbone, Dan Roam, David Armano, Adaptive Path and the Microsoft Surface, Office and Zune UX teams. More info. Read more |
