Where Do We Go From Here – Seattle Silverlight Community

June 9, 2010

Hello Everyone;
In the Silverlight World Microsoft is the center of everything, one would think that the user groups in and around Microsoft would be the biggest and most Awesomest in the world.  We need your help in figuring out where to go from here.  We as a community need YOU!   if you can [...]

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Book Review: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook

May 25, 2010

Alas I find my self doing another book review… its not clear to me that I should continue to do that but on this particular book it heads in the right direction. As noted in an earlier post I find the idea of a cook book to be of particular interest and useful in my [...]

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User eXperience Digest No. 20

May 25, 2010

V1 #20 5/25/2010
Interact’s UX Digest is our oftentimes weekly digest of UX links, notes and other cool resources and events that attracted our attention out in the blogosphere. We also tweet daily on hot UX topics. Follow us on twitter or friend us on facebook,
This time in the UX Digest…
Playful User Experiences
http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2010/05/playful-user-experiences.php
The Secret to Designing an Intuitive [...]

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The New Mobile UX Story – Kin/Phone 7 w/ Jared Potter

May 15, 2010

Every third Wed this coming meeting is Wed, May 19th at 7:00 – 8:30pm at Aquent Office in Seattle. Free parking after 6:00 pm. Meeting in the lobby and look for our great new Sign. If you get lost call Eric at : 206.779.0314Â
Our meetings are always free.
This month its all things Windows Mobile 7 and Kin.  With [...]

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Book Review: Silverlight 4 Business Application Development

May 6, 2010

Silverlight 4 Business Application Development, here is a book that is kind of not so much on the UX side but what stands out about this book is the fact that it is more pictures and code then text especially when compared to a regular book.  For me in particular this is awesome as Im [...]

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Jared Spool: Revealing Design Treasures from The Amazon

May 3, 2010

Host:
Seattle IxDA

Location:

University of Washington Kane Hall Room 210
Seattle, WA 98105 US

When:
Thursday, May 20, 7:00PM   

On its surface, Amazon just seems like a large e-commerce site, albeit a successful one. Its design isn’t flashy, nor is it much to write home about. But deep within its pages are hidden secrets?secrets that every designer should know about.
If one [...]

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User eXperience Digest No. 19

April 29, 2010

V1 #19 4/29/2010
Interact’s UX Digest is our oftentimes weekly digest of UX links that attracted our attention out in the blogosphere. We also tweet daily on hot UX topics. Follow us on twitter or friend us on facebook,
This week…
Useful touch gesture resources  http://uxmag.com/short-news/useful-touch-gesture-resources
30 Examples of Clean and Minimal Website Navigation http://webdesignledger.com/inspiration/30-examples-of-clean-and-minimal-website-navigation
The CMO’s guide to The [...]

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Seattle Flash Camp: Friday, May 7th

April 19, 2010

This full-day event will provide an introduction to the Flash Platform as well as covering advanced topics for existing Flex and ActionScript developers. Enhance your skills in ActionScript and Flex while learning from local and national industry experts, such as Ryan Stewart, Platform Evangelist at Adobe. In addition to great training, Flash Camps are a [...]

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User eXperience Digest No. 18

April 8, 2010

v1 #18 4/8/2010
Interact’s UX Digest is our oftentimes weekly digest of UX links that attracted our attention out in the blogosphere. We also tweet daily on hot UX topics. Follow us on twitter or friend us on facebook,
This week…
Perceived Affordances and Designing for Task Flow
Eye Tracking and Web Usability: A Good Fit?
Userability # 14 – [...]

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Designer Developer Interaction Study by Interact Seattle (it’s about the design about the user)

April 8, 2010

Interact is about Designer Developer interaction. Our goal at Interact really about improving designer developer relationships and helping us all build better UI. Along those lines we decided to do a research study on designer developer communication. For the most part this was conducted in mass as a couple of surveys that we sent out [...]

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