Five years ago today I woke up to a beautiful fall day in Minnesota. It was sunny, warm, and full of possibilities. I, like everyone else, never expected any of what was to come. I was shaken to my core by a phone call I received from my girlfrien...
Microsoft’s experimental photo gallery-sharing application, Project Max, was just updated for the first time in six months on Friday. This latest release requires .NET FX 3.0 RC1, and offers you the ability to view RSS and ATOM feeds, weirdly enou...
Kathy Sierra, co-creator of the O’Reilly Head First book series (including the super-cool Head First Design Patterns book), has a very long, very passionate post on some of the fundamental disconnects product creators have with their documentation...
I was browsing through this blog’s profile on Technorati a few minutes ago when I noticed that someone (besides myself) had marked this as a favorite. Feeling pleased, I decided to see who it was: turns out that Tantek Çelik, CTO of Technorati, W3...
Parts two, three, and four of Jared Spool’s Spoolcast are also available. Part 1: Description - MP3 - Transcript Part 2: Description - MP3 Part 3: Description - MP3 Part 4: Description - MP3
Jared Spool, noted usability guy and wiseass (read his bio), introduces the Spoolcast, a roundtable podcast, covering a variety of topics. Episode 1 includes the following topics (and thankfully does not feature a Jamaican alien with floppy ears):...
Dave Massy, a PM from the Internet Explorer team, blogged about the revamp of the IE Developer Center on MSDN: We've worked to make some of the essential links such as reference material easier to find and we will be promoting different content on...
Diana Wynne, blogger extraordinaire and a design manager at an unnamed company in San Francisco, opines about the sorry state of ergonomics in your child’s cafeteria. At Microsoft, we have a vaguely similar setup, except that our receptacles are ...
Microsoft just released Beta 1 of their new, designer-oriented web development product, Expression Web. Expression Web, which requires v2.0 of the .NET Framework, can be downloaded for free from Microsoft (requires free registration and a Windows ...
Lili Cheng, the Director of Windows Ux (usability, design, etc), is interviewed in a podcast on PodTech.net (god, I hate that name). Kudos to Scoble for the link. What happens when all of our operating systems come together — our phones, our ente...