Shane Morris: UXB

A User eXperience Blog, by a User eXperience Bloke

Free online Expression training!

Arturo Toledo, our UX technical product manager back in Redmond has pointed out some free Expression...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/06/2007

Surfaces, darling

"I just want SURFACES, darling. I don't want this, look, I don't want this. I don't want THINGS on...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/30/2007

And I'm speaking at Web Standards Group in Melbourne on June 7th.

Same topic: "Designers and Developers - Learning to get along". Keep an eye on the Web Standards...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/24/2007

Make the logo bigger.

This is dedicated to a special client of mine. Make the logo bigger MP3 You know who you are!

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/22/2007

Discretionary use of Mandatory tools, or...

... or, "I wonder if Frank would let me expense a joystick for my desk?" Frank noticed this article...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/21/2007

WSG talk moved to May 31

Just a quick note that my WSG talk in Sydney has moved to May 31 due to venue problems. Sorry for...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/15/2007

ReMIX brings the best of MIX downunder

So I've just returned from MIX and CHI. My tutes seemed to go well at CHI, and MIX was great fun....

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/10/2007

Web Standards Group Sydney: Designers and developers - learning to get along

UPDATE: This talk has moved to the 31st of May, at UTS. I'll be presenting at Web Standards Group in...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/19/2007

Sydney Morning Herald: Microsoft, Adobe competition heats up

Thanks to an alert friend who just pointed this out to me. An interesting article in the SMH (and...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/17/2007

Everybody listen to me! ARCast.net

Back before I joined Microsoft (but while I was in the end of a seemingly endless series of job...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/17/2007

Expression Blend and Expression Web to be included with MSDN Premium

I'm probably the last Microsoft blogger on the planet to cover this, but Microsoft has decided to...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/10/2007

Get a (bigger) room! Age of UX Melb gets upsized.

Apologies to all those who have not been able to register for Age of User Experience in Melbourne -...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/05/2007

XBAPs for Firefox coming

I read on Ryan Stewarts blog that XBAP support for Firefox is coming. [Translation: XBAP's are WPF...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/27/2007

Age of User Experience - Sydney, Brisbane (2) and Melbourne

Well, we've finally got our act together and scheduled the Age of User Experience briefings for...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/26/2007

The Age of User Experience - Sydney (11/4), Brisbane (12/4 & 13/4), Melbourne (18/4)

You are invited to attend a Microsoft briefing on "The Age of User Experience" . Where an d When...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/26/2007

Interaction Design - weakest at the joins

On By Design this morning on Radio National, they were talking about the role corners have in urban...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/24/2007

Form AND Function - the alternate Google homepages

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Google is introducing themed alternative homepages! OMG! The...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/21/2007

Stop by for a drink on Microsoft at WebDU

As per tradition, Microsoft is buying the drinks after the WebDU dinner in Sydney on Thursday night....

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/19/2007

Blog Mini-makeover

Because we evangelists get renumerated based on the number of blog posts we make (well it feels that...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/16/2007

Seeking a Great User Experience with seek.com.au

Mia Northrop, Senior Site Producer at Seek was interviewed by Ron Jacobs from Microsoft/ARCast when...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/14/2007

Getting started with Microsoft’s UX platform

Thanks to the guys over at Microsoft UK for taking one of the things off my to-do list. They've...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/08/2007

Custom WPF keyboard on UMPC and four on the floor

You know, being a Microsoft evangelist isn't all just sitting around in cafes and playing with the...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/07/2007

What's better than usability testing?

Catching up on my reading, today I finally read this Microsoft Watch article on the Office 2007...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/06/2007

Your official source for sample WPF apps

If you're looking for samples of all the good stuff you can do with WPF, then go no further than the...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 02/28/2007

Age of UX - one down

Well the first Age of UX event really well - I think. The numbers were great, there were lots of...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 02/28/2007

MIXing it up in Vegas

Registrations are well-and-truly open for MIX. MIX 07 is Microsoft's second conference for all...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 02/01/2007

2 Yins for every Yang

Obviously, Scott Barnes just doesn't have enough firepower to keep up with me, so Frank has provided...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/30/2007

The yin to my yang

Everybody please welcome Scott Barnes. Scott is our shiny new web VAR evangelist, based in Brisbane....

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/11/2007

iPhone design and sub-pixellating

I'm sure you'll have no problems finding iPhone content. I'll just pick this one, which tells a bit...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/09/2007

Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista

Check out this video preview of Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista.Uses lots of whizzy WPF and Vista...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/08/2007

BlueScreen2007

User Experience Principle #2: The user should always feel in control. So I've been going through the...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/03/2007

Free tickets - "Interaction Design Studio" dry-run

I am running a new tutorial entitled “Interaction Design Studio” at CHI07. This is a spin-off from...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/01/2007

Designer crunch time - 2007 the year of the Rich Internet App?

This post by Ryan Stewart on ZDNet predicts big things for Rich Internet Applications (RIA's) in...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/21/2006

WPF online chat this Friday

For those who like to get up early just before Christmas, the WPF team at Microsoft are holding an...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/19/2006

Don't clck it

A really interesting UI concept to avoid clicks. Educational value only. What's wrong with clicks...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/18/2006

User Experience Maturity Model - Microsoft Style

Internally at MS we've been talking about how to define and assess an organisation's "user...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/18/2006

Help Shane get to Designertopia

So Darren McCormick the UXE "Role Owner" at "Corp" (see my Microsoft induction training is working)...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/07/2006

Who's better at parking a car - person or computer?

First (?) rule of user experience: Computers are good at doing some things (counting) and people are...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/07/2006

A busy week at OzCHI

Next week I will be at OzCHI in Sydney. OzCHI is the annual conference of CHISIG, the...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/14/2006

Danger UXB

"UXB" stands for "User eXperience Blog", "User eXperience Bloke" and "UneXploded Bomb", in no...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/10/2006

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