Canadian UX Blog

2020-07-17

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[Mini-Tutorial] Blend 3: Rich Interactivity with No Code

The idea of creating rich interactivity without code should sound very appearing to designers,...

Author: qixing Date: 06/30/2009

[Mini-Tutorial] Blend 3: Visual Data Binding

As your project evolves from simple sketches to prototypes, you may want to add some real...

Author: qixing Date: 06/29/2009

[Mini-Tutorial] Blend 3: SketchFlow Part II

Bill Buxton talks about the difference between “Sketch” and “Prototype” in this his Sketching User...

Author: qixing Date: 06/28/2009

[Mini-Tutorial] Blend 3: SketchFlow Part I

Two years and an half ago, when I first joined Microsoft, we were getting ready to release...

Author: qixing Date: 06/28/2009

SketchFlow and Blend 3 Presentation at Waterloo

So, you have a great design idea… How do you turn your conceptual design ideas into rich...

Author: qixing Date: 06/19/2009

Design Student of the Month – Jin Fan

There are a lot of creative students in Canada who are doing innovative work to improve people's...

Author: qixing Date: 06/16/2009

Designers are Evangelists

Do you think designers are evangelists? Outside of the religion context, an evangelist “is a person...

Author: qixing Date: 06/08/2009

How to Best Work and Connect with You?

It’s survey time. Wait! Don’t run away yet. It’s a survey to ensure that our team correctly...

Author: qixing Date: 06/03/2009

The Art of SEO and IIS

If you develop/design public websites for your customers, you likely already know first-hand how...

Author: Date: 06/03/2009

Search It with Bing

Bing is the new Microsoft search experience and it’s live now for Canada! I’ve been using it for a...

Author: qixing Date: 06/01/2009

TechDays Expands to Another city in 2009!!

TechDays 2008 was such a success that we had many comments and feedback that we should expand it to...

Author: qixing Date: 06/01/2009

Vancouver / Toronto Event: Make Web, Not War Episode 2009

As a solution provider, the web presents an ever increasing opportunity to grow your business. ...

Author: Date: 06/01/2009

Opportunity Rings – WIT Event

Continuing connecting with women in IT, we have a joint event next month with...

Author: qixing Date: 05/26/2009

[Podcast] Microsoft Designer: Aaron Woo from Windows Mobile Team

There are about 750 UX designers and researchers working at Microsoft. People in the UX community...

Author: qixing Date: 05/25/2009

Design Student of the Month - Salpy Elizabeth Kelian

There are a lot of creative students in Canada who are doing innovative work to improve people's...

Author: qixing Date: 05/20/2009

TechDays 2009 Community Team

As we are planning for TechDays 2009, my colleague Rodney Buike organized a community team, whose...

Author: qixing Date: 05/14/2009

[Podcast] Microsoft Designer: Allison Gallant from XDR

There are about 750 UX designers and researchers working at Microsoft. People in the UX community...

Author: qixing Date: 05/10/2009

UX Design and Research Training at Microsoft

UX community within Microsoft is growing rapidly. Both UX designers and researchers play...

Author: qixing Date: 05/08/2009

Try out Win7 RC Today!

Window 7 Release Candidate is available for public download today! Throughout our EnergizeIT tour...

Author: qixing Date: 05/05/2009

Mini-Demo: Windows 7 Desktop

As we are wrapping up all our EnergizeIT events this week, I thought to record my demo on Windows 7...

Author: qixing Date: 04/30/2009

Check Out the New Silverlight Blog!

Hard to keep up with what’s new in Silverlight and Expression? Check out the Silverlight blog...

Author: qixing Date: 04/30/2009

Expression Resource for Designers

In the last Silverlight User Group meeting, someone asked me about Expression and Silverlight...

Author: qixing Date: 04/23/2009

Blog on UX Quotes

I was looking for a good UX quote yesterday and discovered the “inspireUX” blog which is dedicated...

Author: qixing Date: 04/23/2009

All About Mobile

As I was doing my daily reading this morning, I came across three presentations related to mobile...

Author: qixing Date: 04/20/2009

Design Student of the Month – Sara Salevati

There are a lot of creative students in Canada who are doing innovative work to improve people's...

Author: qixing Date: 04/15/2009

Webby Award Powered by Silverlight

Webby Award is like the Oscar Awards for internet creations. It is the largest, most prestigious...

Author: qixing Date: 04/15/2009

Yesterday we sent out our newly designed MSDN Developer Newsletter. Many of you have already sent...

Author: qixing Date: 04/09/2009

WIT Webcast Summary and Answers to Your Questions

Yesterday we successfully conducted the Women in IT Panel Discussion webcast, which is a new...

Author: qixing Date: 04/08/2009

MIX09 Debrief at the Next Silverlight User Group Meeting

We had several Toronto Silverlight User Group members attended MIX09 last month in Vegas. In the...

Author: qixing Date: 04/07/2009

Blending Physical and Virtual Reality

If you haven’t seen the video below, you have to check it out! It’s one of the coolest Surface demos...

Author: qixing Date: 03/31/2009

Design Principles at Microsoft

Functioning Form is one of my favorite design blogs, last Friday author Luke Wroblewski summarized...

Author: qixing Date: 03/29/2009

EnergizeIT Kitchener and London

This week Rod, Joey and I kicked off the EnergizeIT tour on the west coast. Joey showed you the Road...

Author: qixing Date: 03/26/2009