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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

New Design for MSDN Newsletter

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

Guest Post: MIX09 Inspirations: Back to the Drawing Board

From now through the end of the MIX09 conference in Las Vegas, Rob Burke will be providing his...

Author: Date: 03/23/2009

Return on Experience – learning from 3 Keynotes

I watched three inspiring keynotes this week: two from MIX and Robert Fabricant's Interations’09...

Author: qixing Date: 03/22/2009

Guest Post: MIX09 Day 2: “Return on Experience”

From now through the end of the MIX09 conference in Las Vegas, Rob Burke will be providing his...

Author: Date: 03/20/2009

IE8 and Stories From Home

There are lots of exciting announcements coming out of MIX in Vegas this week. Today we shipped...

Author: qixing Date: 03/19/2009

Guest Post: MIX09 Day 1: The “Software” in “Software + Services”

From now through the end of the MIX09 conference in Las Vegas, Rob Burke will be providing his...

Author: Date: 03/19/2009

Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend 3 Betas Now Available!

Silverlight 3 Beta Today at the MIX ‘09 conference, we rolled out the beta for Silverlight 3, the...

Author: qixing Date: 03/18/2009

Guest Post: MIX09 Welcome Swag (includes Sketching UX book!)

From now through the end of the MIX09 conference in Las Vegas, Rob Burke will be providing his...

Author: Date: 03/18/2009

Windows 7 Search Connectors

One of the features I really enjoy using on Windows 7 is Search Connectors. It’s a great example of...

Author: qixing Date: 03/17/2009

A Brief History of MIX: Feet on Ground, Eyes on Cloud

From now through the end of the MIX09 conference in Las Vegas, Rob Burke will be providing his...

Author: Date: 03/16/2009

Design Student of the Month – Dandan Huang

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

Author: qixing Date: 03/12/2009

Software + Service in Plain English

As I was searching around earlier this week for a good way of explaining “Software + Service,” the...

Author: qixing Date: 03/12/2009

Join the Microsoft Partner Program, Get Expression Web

Microsoft Canada has a great offer for any Canadian web solution provider that isn’t already a...

Author: Date: 03/12/2009

Understanding the Microsoft Web Platform

A common complaint that I hear from people who build web solutions is that when they try to start...

Author: Date: 03/11/2009

Microsoft Surface Blog by Infusion

Last year during Explore Design conference, our friends at Infusion showcased the various Surface...

Author: qixing Date: 03/10/2009

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