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The Story of the Ribbon

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The Story of the Ribbon
Speakers: Jensen Harris
Description: Farewell, menus and toolbars! Come hear the behind-the-scenes story of how the 2007 Office Ribbon user interface was imagined, designed, and validated. See never-before-shown early prototypes, hear about mistakes we learned from during the design process, and find out the principles of user experience design we used each step of the way in creating the first totally new user interface for Office.

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Beneath the Surface: The Natural Experience Vision

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Beneath the Surface: The Natural Experience Vision
Speakers: Daniel Makoski (Microsoft)
Description: Come hear how the Surface User Experience team is focusing on design and user experience as a key driver for creating more natural, intuitive and emotional products. Learn how Surface shifts the approach that has been used for more than thirty years of making users learn the language of computers and products to an entirely new approach where technology, computers, and products learn the language of people: touch, voice, and gesture.

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Creating Better User Experiences: Design Methods

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Creating Better User Experiences: Design Methods
Speakers: Dan Harrelson; Kim Lenox
Description: Join us to survey the landscape of interaction design methods, tools, and techniques to improve your ability to diagnose the business situation and select the right steps in the process to design a powerful result. We provide you with the means to map and thoughtfully select from the full range of techniques at your disposal.

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Creating Better User Experiences: Information Architecture

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Creating Better User Experiences: Information Architecture
Speakers: Dan Harrelson; Kim Lenox
Description: Come to this session and we'll analyze content, features, and data within your system, whether it's a Website, intranet, or Web application. Learn how to create a model of your content that illustrates how the different pieces relate to each other. Learn the advantages and drawbacks of different categorization methods. How best can you use metadata and tagging? What exactly is the difference between a taxonomy, folksonomy, vocabulary, or thesaurus?

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Creating Better User Experiences: Interaction Design

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Creating Better User Experiences: Interaction Design
Speakers: Dan Harrelson; Kim Lenox
Description: In this session, develop a framework to turn research findings into interaction design concepts. Learn how to take the raw data from research and craft design principles that you can turn into a prototype.

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Creating Better User Experiences: Design Strategy

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Creating Better User Experiences: Design Strategy
Speakers: Dan Harrelson; Kim Lenox
Description: Join us for this session to gain the tools you need to establish and implement an effective design strategy, one that meshes business goals with appeals to the target customer.

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The Back of the Napkin: Solving Design Problems (and Selling Your Solutions) with Pictures

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The Back of the Napkin: Solving Design Problems (and Selling Your Solutions) with Pictures
Speakers: Dan Roam
Description: Let's face it: describing user experience is hard... unless we use pictures. This session demonstrates step-by-step how anyone, regardless of artistic talent or training, can use simple pictures to describe complex design and technical concepts, solve fuzzy problems, and sell others on breakthrough ideas.

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Getting Clued In to Experience Management

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Getting Clued In to Experience Management
Speakers: conscious and unconscious, because clues affect the emotions that shape customer attitudes that drive their behaviors. He stresses the need to adapt our business thinking from the ""make and sell"" approaches of the industrial age to ""sensing and responding""-a dynamic change that requires new framing and competencies. He discusses how the systematic design and delivery of experiences can be achieved, and the immense impact this has on customer value, loyalty, and the bottom line.",Lou Carbone
Description: Experience Management thought leader and author Lou Carbone urges managing ""experience clues"

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Silverlight and Web Analytics

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Silverlight and Web Analytics
Speakers: Aaron Fossum; Bret Grinslade; Michael Scherotter; William Garrison
Description: Rich Interactive Applications (RIAs) and media players built with Microsoft Silverlight are easily integrated with web analytics services like WebTrends On Demand, Omniture SiteCatalyst, and Microsoft AdCenter Analytics. In this panel, you will learn from experts at each of these companies about the different ways that Web analytics services collect data about web usage behavior and allow businesses to measure how web sites perform against business goals. Each panelist will discuss how to incorporate their company's web analytics services into Silverlight applications and then take advantage of the separation between the design in XAML and code in JavaScript to do effective A/B testing.

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