Sessions at Mix08

Delivering International User Experiences

briankel — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:11:47 GMT

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Delivering International User Experiences
Speakers: Eric Totherow
Description: Come hear why creating excellent user experiences in software or services that have a global audience presents a number of significant design and technical challenges that make it difficult to find the right combination of technology, knowledge, and collaboration to produce a cost-effective, viable product. Also, learn how Microsoft is addressing internationalization in a way that produces much better software and user experiences.

The Story of the Ribbon

briankel — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:11:47 GMT

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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.

Beneath the Surface: The Natural Experience Vision

briankel — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:11:47 GMT

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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.

Creating Better User Experiences: Design Methods

briankel — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:11:47 GMT

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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.

Creating Better User Experiences: Information Architecture

briankel — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:11:47 GMT

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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?

Creating Better User Experiences: Interaction Design

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Creating Better User Experiences: Design Strategy

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

briankel — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:11:47 GMT

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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.

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"

Silverlight and Web Analytics

briankel — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:11:46 GMT

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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.

Real World Design: Working with Silverlight and WPF in the Design Studio

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Real World Design: Working with Silverlight and WPF in the Design Studio
Speakers: Beau Ambur (Metaliq); Chip Aubry (Tribal); Chris Bernard (MODERATOR); Jeffrey McLean (projekt202); Nathan Dunlap (Identity Mine); Rich Weston (Neudesic)
Description: Silverlight and WPF represent a new way for designers and developers work together. But what happens in a professional practice that's focused more on employing designers than developers and using Macs versus PCs for much of their daily design work? Join us as we find out how practitioners from companies like Tribal, Projekt202, Metaliq and Identity Mine discuss the learning curves and the workflow that they adapted with their visual designers and rich interactive developers to get up to speed with Expression Studio, XAML and Silverlight. You'll hear the unvarnished truth about the challenges and rewards of how Silverlight is enabling the digital design practice.

Is Web 2.0 sustainable? What business models will work?

briankel — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:11:46 GMT

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Is Web 2.0 sustainable? What business models will work?
Speakers: and explore various business models like advertising, Freemium, affiliate marketing, e-commerce, and others.",Dave McClure; Don Dodge; Kevin Rose (Digg); Kimbal Musk; Robert Scoble; Ryan McIntyre
Description: Web 2.0 applications are easy and cheap to build. Free services can attract lots of users, but how will they make money? Social networking applications are fun and ""sticky"" but do they have sustainable value? What is the optimal social business model around content distribution? This panel will predict Web 2.0 winners and loser

What's the Secret Formula?

briankel — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:11:46 GMT

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What's the Secret Formula?
Speakers: Dan Harrelson; Daniel Makoski (Microsoft); Jensen Harris; Mike Schroepfer (Mozilla); Nishant Kothary
Description: We've built airplanes that travel faster than sound, ships that resemble small towns, rockets that take people to the moon, and phones that you can carry everywhere you go. Why is it, then, that we haven't found a way to build software that always looks good, feels good, and just works? Shouldn't it be easy in comparison? Is there a secret formula to building great software?

Opportunities and Challenges in Mashing Up the Web

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Opportunities and Challenges in Mashing Up the Web
Speakers: Aaron Fulkerson (MindTouch); Andi Gutmans (Zend Technologies); Mike Schroepfer (Mozilla); Sam Ramji (Moderator); Shawn Burke
Description: There are lots of different vendors offering lots of different technologies on which platforms may be built. Web 1.0 and Web services suffered from interoperability problems. What should we, as designers and developers of the next web do to avoid the same mistakes? What standards are best for us? Does JSON answer our data needs? Is HTTP enough?

E-commerce Done Right

briankel — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:11:46 GMT

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E-commerce Done Right
Speakers: Gerard Johnson (HSN); Matthew Rechs (Schematic); Nicholas Rockwell (MTV Networks); Steve Nelson (Netflix)
Description: Companies strive to provide great digital experiences that promote their content. We are in a new wave where enhancing the experience can open up new avenues for selling content. E-Commerce businesses have other tough compromises to make between customer privacy, security, and one-click convenience. Make the right choices and your business can become an online goldmine. Learn how some of the world's most successful companies made these difficult decisions, and how new technologies might change that equation.

How Design Impacts the Bottom Line

briankel — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:11:46 GMT

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How Design Impacts the Bottom Line
Speakers: Dave Blakely; David Watson; Jason Brush; Jimmy Kim; Luke Wroblewski; Will Tschumy (Moderator)
Description: Is good design good business? Listen to these customers discuss how good design helped them: - Reach the market faster with lower development costs - Increase the revenues and retained earnings of their products or services - Increase market share You'll hear how design has created real competitive advantage for businesses across the spectrum from consumer to business brands. Hear from the design professionals who did the work, and the customers who hired them.

Touch Me: Where Are Interfaces Going?

briankel — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:11:46 GMT

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Touch Me: Where Are Interfaces Going?
Speakers: Chris Bernard (MODERATOR); Dale Herigstad (Schematic); Daniel Makoski (Microsoft); Dave Wolf; Doug Cook (Thirteen23); Yoshihiro Saito (2nd Factory)
Description: The keyboard and mouse are aging input devices. For the future of computing and UX, where are interfaces going? Are these enough? Is touch-screen Surface/iPhone/iPod Touch just a gimmick? Where should Man Machine Interface (MMI) go?

I Wanna Go Mobile!

briankel — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:11:46 GMT

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I Wanna Go Mobile!
Speakers: Chad Stoller (Organic); David-Michel Davies (Webby Awards); Derrick Oien (Intercasting); Eric Breitbard (Schematic); Michael Platt (MODERATOR)
Description: What is the next wave of mobile computing? Is the mobile browser enough? How will mobile phones complement PCs? This panel explores trends in mobile application development and explores the mobile phone's role within the growing world of connected experiences.

Social Networks: Where Are They Taking Us?

briankel — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:11:46 GMT

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Social Networks: Where Are They Taking Us?
Speakers: Allen Hurff (MySpace); David Morin; Garrett Camp; Guy Kawasaki; John Richards; Joseph Smarr; Marc Canter (Broadband Mechanics)
Description: Social Networking sites are popping up all over the place. How many networks do we want to have? Should there be one network to rule them all? What is the future of Social Networks? Is it a ubiquotous site? Is it an application? What are the platform opportunities for making money in social networks?

What Is the face of the next Web?

briankel — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:11:46 GMT

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What Is the face of the next Web?
Speakers: Anthony Franco (EffectiveUI); Chris Bernard (MODERATOR); Garrick Schmitt (Avenue A | Razorfish); Mark Kurtz (Gage); Paul Dain (Tribal); Tjeerd Hoek (Frog)
Description: Web 2.0 appeared almost overnight from innovative uses of technology to break through the traditional HTML/JS browser ceilings. But what comes next? What is the face of the next web? What are the expectaitons for user interaction and experience? What about a mobile web?

Web 2.0 and Beyond: What Is the Business Reality?

briankel — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:11:45 GMT

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Web 2.0 and Beyond: What Is the Business Reality?
Speakers: Bryan Biniak (CEO Jacked); Chris Saad; Frank Arrigo (Microsoft); Loic Le Meur (CEO Seesmic); Tim Kendall (Facebook)
Description: While Web 2.0 and beyond sites, built on the family of technologies that encompass it, are undeniably cool, the question remains: How can one make money off it? Join us as well known Web 2.0 firms debate the revenue model in this brave new world.

The Open Question

briankel — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:11:45 GMT

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The Open Question
Speakers: Andi Gutmans (Zend Technologies); Miguel de Icaza; Mike Schroepfer (Mozilla); Rob Conery (Microsoft); Sam Ramji (Microsoft)
Description: Everyone is open now. But what does that mean to users? How open is open? Hear industry leaders share their thoughts on the characteristics that differentiate open from a marketing exercise to a value add. Add your commentary to this discussion with Microsoft, Mozilla, Novell and more

Designing at the Speed of Light

briankel — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:11:45 GMT

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Designing at the Speed of Light
Speakers: Cinthya Urasaki (Microsoft); Daniel Makoski (Microsoft); John Reid (McCann Erickson); Ryan Dawson; Zachary Jean Paradis (Sapient)
Description: Your customer needs a breakthrough design for their new business solution - yesterday. What are the secrets to delivering quality design quickly? Accurate project estimation and process can help but the real answers often come from hard-to-make scope and resource decisions. Hear the varying directions these experts have taken in real world projects. Join in with your thoughts around parameters such as buy vs build, strong integrator or no integrator and more.

Making it Simple: Designer/Developer Workflow

briankel — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:11:45 GMT

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Making it Simple: Designer/Developer Workflow
Speakers: Christian Schormann (MODERATOR); Ken Azuma (Second Factory); Marcelo Marer (Avenue A Razorfish); Mark Ligameri (frog design); Robby Ingebretsen (Identity Mine); Robert Tuttle (frog design); Ryan Lane (Wunderman)
Description: How do you combine a designer's vision with the requirements of productive software? Left brain/Right brain workflow is a sophisticated problem that impacts us all but has no easy answers. Industry experts will share their learnings and invite you to join in on a lively discussion about the merits and costs of different approaches.

From Long Tail to Fuzzy Tale: Why "Fuzzy" Is the New Clear

briankel — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:11:00 GMT

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From Long Tail to Fuzzy Tale: Why "Fuzzy" Is the New Clear
Speakers: David Armano
Description: Come hear how interdisciplinary teams use the "Fuzzy Tail" to mix it up in the conceptual design, and development process as generalists and specialists search for new ways to work together in order to keep up the pace in a "2.0" world. This presentation discusses a type of mindset and attitude that will be essential in this type of professional ecosystem. We review some case studies and open up a dialogue after the presentation. If the Long Tail is the what-then the Fuzzy Tail may just be the why.

MIX08 Keynote Day 2

briankel — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:58:00 GMT

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Day 2 Keynote
Speakers: Steve Ballmer, Guy Kawasaki
Description: Join Steve Ballmer and Guy Kawasaki for the day 2 keynote of MIX 2008.

MIX08 Keynote Day 1

briankel — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:55:00 GMT

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Day 1 Keynote
Speakers: Ray Ozzie, Scott Guthrie, Dean Hachamovitch
Description: The Day 1 keynote highlighted Microsoft's newest Web tools and technologies, including the release of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1, Silverlight 2 Beta, Expression Studio 2 Beta and a preview of SQL Server Data Services (SSDS). Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie took the stage to share his vision for how Web developers and designers can deliver seamless connected experiences across the continuum of Web applications, rich clients and mobile devices. Ozzie was joined onstage by Scott Guthrie, who discussed advances in Silverlight and Expression Studio that bridge the developer/designer workflow and provide a common development model, making it easier to deliver richer, more interactive Web experiences. Also on stage was Dean Hachamovitch, who demonstrated Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1, highlighting new features and functionality. Demonstrating their support for Silverlight, customers and partners also took part in the keynote, including AOL, Aston Martin, Cirque du Soleil, DoubleClick, Hard Rock, Move Networks and NBCOlympics.com on MSN.

Using Microsoft Silverlight for Creating Rich Mobile User Experiences

briankel — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:12:00 GMT

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Using Microsoft Silverlight for Creating Rich Mobile User Experiences
Speakers: Giorgio Sardo
Description: Come learn how use Microsoft Silverlight for Mobile to build rich mobile experiences including best patterns and practices, fluid and intuitive navigation, smart content organization, small form factor and cross-device support. This session also covers how to use tools like Microsoft Expression Blend to move beyond size considerations to create create stunning and meaningful vector-based graphics applications.

Overview of Expression Encoder 2

briankel — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:12:00 GMT

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Overview of Expression Encoder 2
Speakers: Charles Finkelstein; James Clarke
Description: Come hear about all the great new features and capabilities in Microsoft Expression Encoder 2 including zoomable timelines, detailed event authoring, improved encoding accuracy and control, improved scalability and performance, and much more.

Introducing SQL Server Data Services

briankel — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:07:00 GMT

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Introducing SQL Server Data Services
Speakers: Nigel Ellis
Description: Come learn about our new cloud-based storage service and how it addresses a number of business scenarios. This session introduces the new Microsoft SQL Server Data Services, as well as outlines business models and terms.

Integrating Your Site With Internet Explorer 8

briankel — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:19:00 GMT

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Integrating Your Site With Internet Explorer 8
Speakers: Jane Kim
Description: Learn what the new standards compliant engine in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 means to you as a web designer, and how to utilize new layout functionality to create cross-browser-compatible layout designs.

Hard Rock: Behind the Music with Deep Zoom

briankel — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:15:00 GMT

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Hard Rock: Behind the Music with Deep Zoom
Speakers: Scott Stanfield
Description: Come see how Deep Zoom was used to turn the world's best collection of rock-and-roll memorabilia into a unique web experience. This session covers how this new Microsoft Silverlight 2 feature makes it possible to efficiently browse and zoom images, and how to create 200M pixel images. Learn how to tune Deep Zoom performance, particularly with thousands of image tiles comprising gigabytes of content, how to address design and UI challenges related to accessing an infinite canvas, and much more.

Welcome to Internet Explorer 8

briankel — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:04:00 GMT

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Welcome to Internet Explorer 8
Speakers: Chris Wilson
Description: Come get an overview of the new features and capabilities of Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.

Cross-Browser Layout with Internet Explorer 8

briankel — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:03:00 GMT

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Cross-Browser Layout with Internet Explorer 8
Speakers: Scott Dickens
Description: Learn the new layout and how to take advantage of new layout functionality in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 to create cross-browser-compatible layout designs.

Mobile Devices and Microsoft Silverlight: A Primer on the New Technology

briankel — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:00:00 GMT

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Mobile Devices and Microsoft Silverlight: A Primer on the New Technology
Speakers: Amit Chopra; David Kline
Description: Be one the first in the industry to get a sneak peek on what's lined up for Microsoft Silverlight on Devices. This session showcases some early Silverlight Mobile Applications and shares a roadmap and release plans for Silverlight for Devices.

Developing Cutting Edge Web Applications With Internet Explorer 8

briankel — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:58:00 GMT

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Developing Cutting Edge Web Applications With Internet Explorer 8
Speakers: Marc Silbey
Description: Come learn about the new and updated development tools in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 that help to build and debug HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Also hear about the new AJAX features that help enable powerful and dynamic Web applications.

Accessing Windows Live Services via AtomPub

Duncan — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:50:00 GMT

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Accessing Windows Live Services via AtomPub
Speakers: Pablo Castro
Description: Come learn how Microsoft is moving towards a unified approach for accessing online services based on AtomPub. We cover how all Windows Live services can be accessed using AtomPub as well as how integrated Microsoft Visual Studio support including ADO.NET Data Services Framework (aka Project "Astoria") allows anyone to easily develop, deploy, and access online services using AtomPub.

Adding Instant Messaging to Any Site