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Here are some notes, links and videos to watch that I talked about at my IASA presentation at ITARC in Atlanta. Joseph Pine: What do consumers really want? This a great video about using experience to differentiate your product. This quote was from the
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Video: Overnight Success We've heard an amazing amount about the cloud at PDC . And if you think about it, the cloud is going to change the application model for User Experience. We're going to see a flip in the model from the desktop to the cloud. Currently
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Whenever the discussion comes to new technology and why would an organization risk using new technology , I think that Wayne Gretzky , yes the hockey player, got it right with this quote. I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
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And win... The good people over at Lab49 (New York's finest WPF consultancy) have a contest focused on using WPF in finance. I've long felt that WPF is a perfect match for the financial market, due to the rich visualization needs and the shear amount
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The Strategic Architecture Group has put the SAF content online. What is the SAF you ask? It is the Strategic Architect Forum made up of three days of discussions and sessions about everything from UX, to Composite Applications to SAAS. Check out the
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In the new MIX08 podcast found at " The Signal ", during episode 2 or 3 , it's stated that MIX is all about the Web (not the exact quote). I disagree. MIX is about UX . It's about the tools and technologies from Microsoft to build those experiences. Its
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For those of you that read "The Architecture Journal" , here's another option for you that actually is better (if you're with computer). Simon Guest is introducing the Architecture Journal Reader , a WPF based reader that delivers. Here's a quick feature
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A lot. Here's a digital version of a index card that I created a while back after reading this article on ESOMM . What is ESOMM? It's the Enterprise Service Orientation Maturity Model. I won't rehash the article but if you don't have some ESOMM and you've
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Here's a couple of interesting bits I've found on the Internets. "How to Ruin a Web Design - The Design Curve" http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-ruin-a-web-design-the-design-curve "Secrets of Great Architects" - From the Architecture Journal (you should
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Graphics can really tie things together in a way that words can't sometimes. Check out this graphic about becoming a fan via Church of the Customer. Sean
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If you work with data (and we all, do both designers and developers). You'll to head over and check out the Graph Design I.Q. test . Any fan of Edward Tufte will score a "10" on this fun departure. If you're a developer this should help you think about
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Simon Guest has a great one hour video on how you can put User Experience back into Software Design, from the Canadian Strategic Architect Forum. It uses the new Silverlight video player which has a wonderful "chapter" feature that lets you navigate through
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After MIX07 more and more people will be looking around Microsoft.com for information about UX or User Experience. If you search for it from the Microsoft home page here's what you get. A multitude of results sprinkled around the Microsoft site. There's
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Here's the base concept. Code coming next. If you can't see the verbiage on the right view this in my photos .
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At MIX07 one of the sessions that I went to see was one by Clement Mok , titled " Fumbling towards AGENCY 2.0 ", it was a fantastic presentation. I was looking at it from a software architects perspective and jotted this down in my moleskine during his
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