Community Design Stories
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Beginning February 2008, I launched a monthly blog series called “Design Student of the Month.” The goal was to highlight creative students in Canada who are doing innovative work to improve people's life through interactive, visual, informational, and other areas of User Experience Design. This has improved my connection with design schools, faculty and students and helped show that Microsoft cares about the future of design. | |
Sharing Designer-Developer Workflow Story from eMedia To show the early adopters' story about the new designer-developer workflow with Expression Studio and Visual Studio, I worked closely with a couple of companies to learn about their experiences. This particular story is from eMedia. For more designer-developer stories, please see here. |
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The story of a Canadian usability firm that redesigned an outdated site called DiscoverIT to be more usable and attract high school students to discover career options in IT. |
Mini-Turotials
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A tutorial on how to use Expression Encoder to create standard Silverlight video gallery, edit the video gallery in Expression Blend, and finally save it back to Encoder as a template for future use. | |
| A tutorial on how to use Deep Zoom to create a light weight presentation visualization ( a Silverlight project) that allows users to view the presentation on a web page or a blog post. This is an interesting way to share presentations in a fixed space. I created the tutorial before I saw the pptPlex project from Office Labs. | 
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A tutorial on how to create your own video player template and reuse it on your blogs or websites. |
Microsoft Design Stories
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[Podcast] Microsoft Designer: Cinthya Urasaki I conducted a series of podcasts with designers at Microsoft during my spare time in Redmond. I did it because there are about 500 designers working at Microsoft and people in the UX community were always surprised to hear that. We haven't given our designers enough opportunities to talk about what they do and how they work as designers at Microsoft. This post is with Cinthya Urasaki, a UX Design Lead at the Unlimited Potential User Experience Team.To see more podcasts with Microsoft designers and other influential designers in the industry I had the chance to chat with, please see here. |
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| During MIX08, I had the chance to experience a variety of surface demo applications and record them. In the blog post, I created a video gallery of 5 different surface usage scenarios that I recorded during the conference to share with the community. They are viewing photos, dining, concierge, painting, and water simulation. | 
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A post on introducing the worldwide availability of Photosynth and sharing my own first Photosynth project with the readers to encourage them to try the service. |