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Sep 05, 2006
UI Design

Interview with Lili Cheng, Windows Ux Director, on PodTech

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...

Sep 05, 2006
Web Design

Microsoft Expression Web Beta 1 Available!

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 ...

Sep 05, 2006
Usability

The Unfortunate Ergonomics of the School Cafeteria

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 ...

Sep 03, 2006
UI Design

Tufteisms

Have you ever spent time browsing Edward Tufte’s website? You really should. I haven’t in quite a while, and I was surprised by how much I had missed previously. The man is absolutely spectacular at the art of presenting information usefully, and ...

Aug 31, 2006
Meta

…a new day

The single most beautiful thing I have ever borne witness to was a Sigur Ros concert in Seattle back in May 2006. There’s a point in one of their songs, entitled viðrar vel til loftárása, where the lead singer, Jónsi, pauses mid-lyric, holding his...