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TechDays Early Bird Pricing Has Been Extended!!
Technorati Tags: techDays_CA Hello Everyone! During this time of global economic instability,...
Author: joxley Date: 10/16/2008
Oct. 22 Silverlight User Group Meeting
In the last Silverlight user group meeting, Mano and Chris gave everyone an overview on...
Author: qixing Date: 10/13/2008
Cozying Up to Silverlight Controls at TechDays
Now the words are out about TechDays and the first stop at Toronto is just around the corner. I'm...
Author: qixing Date: 10/10/2008
[Podcast] Microsoft Designer: Cinthya Urasaki
There are about 500 designers working at Microsoft. People in the UX community are often very...
Author: qixing Date: 10/08/2008
Great Time at Explore Design!
Explore Design (ED) is one of the most energetic conferences we've participated in. After ED wrapped...
Author: qixing Date: 10/05/2008
Imagine Cup 2009 Design Competition
A new school year starts and a new Imagine Cup begins! This year's theme is "Solve the World's...
Author: qixing Date: 09/29/2008
Silverlight 2 Release Candidate Now Available
Late last week, Scott Guthrie announced the availability of the Silverlight 2 Release Candidate....
Author: Date: 09/29/2008
TechDays 2008 - Updates
Hello Everyone! Your feedback on TechDays has been great and I really want to thank you so...
Author: joxley Date: 09/20/2008
Upcoming UX Conferences in Canada
Similar to last year, I'm filling up my calendar with upcoming UX conferences and activities. Here's...
Author: qixing Date: 09/18/2008
Design Student of the Month - Danielle Lottridge
There are a lot of creative students in Canada who are doing innovative work to improve people's...
Author: qixing Date: 09/17/2008
Deep Zoom Functionality for PowerPoint
Back in April Qixing wrote a post about how Deep Zoom could provide an innovative way to present...
Author: Date: 09/15/2008
Canadian Design Story: DiscoverIT.org
Earlier this summer, a brand new design for DiscoverIT launched! A great Canadian design story is...
Author: qixing Date: 09/14/2008
Microsoft Expression Social
Today we released social bookmaking capabilities for there major Microsoft resource sites: MSDN...
Author: qixing Date: 09/10/2008
Silverlight for Flash Experts
Flash, Silverlight. Silverlight, Flash. The debate started a little over a year ago when Silverlight...
Author: Date: 09/08/2008
Now Everyone Can Play with Photosynth!
Another great thing happened during my vacation last month is the public launch of Photosynth. Now...
Author: qixing Date: 09/07/2008
UX Improvements in IE8 Beta 2
Scenario1: when you browse the web for some foreign food, you come across words you don't know. You...
Author: qixing Date: 08/29/2008
Live Mesh is in Canada!
All my sister blogs (IT Manager, CanDev, and CanITPro) have shared the great news that Live Mesh is...
Author: qixing Date: 08/20/2008
Microsoft Surface as a Line of Business Platform
By now many people have seen the capabilities of Microsoft Surface. If you haven’t, you can...
Author: Date: 08/19/2008
Design Student of the Month - Benjamin Coe
There are a lot of creative students in Canada who are doing innovative work to improve people's...
Author: qixing Date: 08/07/2008
Silverlight Training in French
One of our great partners out of Quebec, RunAtServer Consulting, has just created a great, three-day...
Author: Date: 08/05/2008
Microsofties in Residence Silverlight Training - Day 5
This is it! Day 5 was the last day of our training, and we were scheduled to present our project at...
Author: qixing Date: 07/28/2008
Microsofties in Residence Silverlight Training - Day 4
Day 4 involves a lot of hard work (9 am - 12 am). It feels like the crunch time before final...
Author: qixing Date: 07/26/2008
Microsofties in Residence Silverlight Training - Day 3
John and I started parallel working in Day 3 and chatted back and forth on each other's progress...
Author: qixing Date: 07/24/2008
Microsofties in Residence Silverlight Training - Day 2
Another day of collaborating virtually with John. This morning we learnt about creating handoff...
Author: qixing Date: 07/23/2008
Microsofties in Residence Silverlight Training - Day 1
This week my teammate John Bristowe and I are participating in the Microsofties in Residence...
Author: qixing Date: 07/21/2008
Design Student of the Month - Hannah Johnston
There are a lot of creative students in Canada who are doing innovative work to improve people's...
Author: qixing Date: 07/19/2008
DesignCamp Waterloo Makes Great Impact
I really enjoyed the speech given by University of Waterloo Dean's Arts, Ken Coates, at last...
Author: qixing Date: 07/19/2008
Canada Wins!
Congratulations to GreenNet from Simon Fraser University, on winning the 2nd place in the Imagine...
Author: qixing Date: 07/15/2008
Expression Resource
Lately, I received several requests from both designers and UX professors about training on...
Author: qixing Date: 07/15/2008
Imagine Cup Finals in Paris
My teammate Jean-Luc David is now in Paris with the Canadian finalists: Team RoboTree (short film)...
Author: qixing Date: 07/07/2008
[Podcast] Microsoft Designer: Jeffrey Dunn
There are about 500 designers working at Microsoft. People in the UX community are often very...
Author: qixing Date: 06/30/2008
Design Student of the Month - David Chang
There are a lot of creative students in Canada who are doing innovative work to improve people's...
Author: qixing Date: 06/27/2008
Design Story: Managing Human Capital for Large Organization
After joining Microsoft for almost a year and an half now, I'm still finding my way through the...
Author: qixing Date: 06/24/2008
Where do you get your inspiration?
Lately I ran into different blogs and articles that talk about inspiration. So, where do you get...
Author: qixing Date: 06/21/2008
IxDA Interation|09 in Vancouver
One of my favourite discussion list is IxDA. It's a great place for interaction designers to ask...
Author: qixing Date: 06/21/2008
[Mini-Tutorial] Creating a Silverlight Video Gallery
As I promised in one of my earlier posts to do a tutorial on how to create a Silverlight Video...
Author: qixing Date: 06/17/2008
Mobile Device Review: Bell Samsung Ace
As you have probably seen on the other community blogs from our group, we are occasionally given...
Author: Date: 06/17/2008
Zune is here in Canada!
Today is very exiting for the Zune team here in Canada. The new family of Zune products (4GB, 8GB,...
Author: qixing Date: 06/13/2008
New Silverlight and Expression Blend Beta
Last Friday, we released both Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and Expression Blend 2.5 June...
Author: qixing Date: 06/11/2008
Enterprise 2.0 – Midori + SharePoint
My good friends Gene, Jess and team at nForm have finally demonstrated their awesome new project...
Author: davidcrow Date: 06/07/2008
Green Tagging - Sustainability for Small Business Owners
Back in April, I had the opportunity to judge an in-class user interface design competition at UofT....
Author: qixing Date: 06/05/2008
The Expression Professional Subscription is now live
In a previous post, I mentioned that Microsoft was bringing out the new Expression Professional...
Author: Date: 06/03/2008
A solution to hard drive space problems
As the proliferation of media (music, video, etc.), project files and programs continues to grow, so...
Author: Date: 06/02/2008
Design Student of the Month - Nick Poisson
There are a lot of creative students in Canada who are doing innovative work to improve people's...
Author: qixing Date: 05/28/2008