Achieving Digital Zen in Retail

"My “thing” is more or less about embracing the digital space, integrated experience, and fluid emotional connections with a target demographic. I want to hear “wow that’s cool!” That’s when I know it’s a success. That was our goal with the on-demand software kiosk my team at Wirestone and I created for the new Bellevue Microsoft retail store.



Microsoft’s developer centric approach (“Developer, developer, developer!”) has put the experience with Microsoft tools at least a decade ahead of everyone else. Now we need to look beyond the developer centric approach and more and more focus on a user centric approach.

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Read the rest and watch the video here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mvpawardprogram/archive/2011/01/04/achieving-digital-zen-in-retail.aspx

Windows Phone 7 UX with David Kelley (thats me)

Had a great time talking about phone 7 ux this morning on MSDN Radio doing a podcast. Here are some great phone 7 resources related to touch and UX:

Phone 7 Links:
http://developer.windowsphone.com/windows-phone-7/
http://www.windowsphone7.com/
http://www.mobileappmatch.com/?fbid=IzTBJbx-cNj

Josh Blake as a great book on multitouch: http://manning.com/blake/ or http://nui.joshland.org/

http://www.Silverlight.net/
http://www.SilverlightCream.com/

user groups:
http://www.interactseattle.org/
http://www.SeattleSilverlight.net/

Other UX blog links that are cool:

teasers and trasitions

early ux phone 7 concepts

Windows Phone 7 Series User Interface (UI) codenamed “Metro” Design and Interaction Guide

Metro UI The Windows Phone 7 Aesthetic

MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: Composite Application Development (Level 200)

Start Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Duration: 60 minutes
Audience: developer

In this geekSpeak, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) David Kelley discusses composite application development in Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). He covers the Silverlight Designer/Developer workflow, tooling, design patterns, anti-practices, and working with distributed teams. Your hosts for this geekSpeak are Glen Gordon and Mithun Dhar.

The geekSpeak webcast series brings you industry experts in a "talk-radio" format hosted by developer evangelists from Microsoft. These experts share their knowledge and experience about a particular developer technology and are ready to answer your questions in real time during the webcast. To ask a question in advance of the live webcast, or for post-show resources, be sure to visit the geekSpeak blog.

Guest Presenter: David Kelley, Senior Software Architect, IdentityMine

David Kelley is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Microsoft Silverlight, and he has been building Web-based, distributed applications for more than ten years. He is a Silverlight user experience architect at IdentityMine, and his passion is building user experiences that are elegant and easy to use. David's career highlights include a Silverlight demonstration with Bill Gates at TechEd 2008, and developing the "Entertainment Tonight" Web site for the Silverlight 1 launch and Emmy Awards. In his spare time, David is the executive officer of the Seattle Designer Developer Interaction Group.


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MSDN Events Unleashed: Best of MIX

Doing a presentation on what is new in Silverlight 3 at the MSDN Unleashed event in July:

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032414266

in your in the greater seattle area it will be alot of fun and we get to learn some new Silverlight 3 goodness. Hope to see you there.