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January 24, 2006
It's Alive!
Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer - Free Trial
So Expression Interactive Designer (AKA "Sparkle") is finally publicly available in a CTP (pre-beta) download. Check it out and let us know what you think. The product is definitely not finished yet and your feedback counts.
We also now have a new version of Expression Graphic Designer available. It now has some good XAML exporting options that make it useful even for anyone trying to create graphic assets for use in XAML. EGD is also a CTP (pre-beta) release so plan accordingly and let us know what you'd like to see in the product before it ships.
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January 18, 2006
Bibliography
I spoke at an internal Microsoft conference last week about why user experience matters. I promised a list of where to read more about user experience. I've finally fulfilled my promise for a bibliography--I created a Listmania starter list on Amazon. You can read the list here.
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January 11, 2006
Changes
So...few will care but I've had a fair number of changes recently including moving to Seattle, going to work as a Sr. Product Manager for Microsoft, selling a house, buying a house, buying a car, organizing my trading card collection...ok, not the last one but I think the rest are plenty. So...wait for it...here's where I apologize for not writing (as if there was a vast audience waiting in agony for my next thoughts.)
Isn't that the nature of most blogs tho? You're either apologizing for the lapses in writing for various reasons or you're just commenting on things that others are actually doing or saying. It's still interesting as a form of recorded word-of-mouth but writing of any form is at its best when someone has something truly original of significance to say.
Would that history's writers such as Seneca or John Ruskin or Voltaire had had blogs... I think that Dickens, Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, and Mark Twain would have been top notch. Any other nominations?
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