Welcome to the Kitchen

Our favorite web, UI and UX conference site has grown up.  It's no longer just a site about the best conference out there, MIX.  It's now a site for discussion, learning, ideas, projects and yes MIX still gets some love.  MIX has a new URL which is more inline with the conference.  It's ...

Art, whether it's music, visual or another of our senses, art creates a connection to the experience.   Why do we disregard it in our software so often?   Here's something for you to enjoy. Solar, with lyrics. from flight404 on Vimeo.

I haven't really had a chance to blog to much while I've been here at Mix 08.  There's just to much to see.  From Surface to Elvis there is just to many cool things here and even more great people to meet.  I've been twittering most everything because I can do it from the session.  You can follow those at ...

Edward Tufte, master presenter, author and information design visionary will be in Atlanta on March 24th and 25th.  If you haven't seen him, register here.  You also get all four of his books included in the price. I'll be here and if I can go, possibly we could have a meetup with Professor Tufte ...

  Here's an idea for Photosynth that I'd like to see happen, that I had about a year ago.  Premise: Visual hyperlinking that uses Photosynth style photo mapping for search matches.  Usage: You're out looking for a place to eat and you snap a pic with your camera phone of a café, the send the image to the Photosynth query ...

  I thought I'd put together a list of predictions for MIX 08.  Some could happen, some will happen and some could not happen, you decide! Steve Ballmer gives Keynote in black turtleneck and jeans. IE 8 demo IE 8 uses the ''Office Ribbon'' toolbar. Popfly version 2.0, now with DLR SilverLight 2.0 Expression Design running on a ...

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 of data.  So here's your chance to take their data and build something ...

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 about getting designers, developers, architects and ...

  I recently returned from a vacation to one of the pioneers of UX, Walt Disney World.  And the thing that impressed me was the experience that Disney wanted you to have.  They want it immersive, consistent, friendly, themed, thrilling yet safe, familiar, and helpful.  They succeed pretty much 100% of the time.  And the ...

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 read it!) http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/arcjournal/aa480041.aspx ''How to Design a ...