pixel8 :: what makes great user experiences?

Senior Project Manager for Internet Explorer, Pete LePage, joins Pixel8 to discuss the upcoming HTML5 and CSS3 support for IE9 along with a review additional developer enhancements coming in IE9.

Josh Blake of Infostrat joins Pixel8 to discuss Natual User Interface (NUI) development in .NET.

Jeff Prosise and Craig Sheomaker discuss the new features found in Silverlight 4 beta.

Stephen Walther and Craig Shoemaker discuss the latest announcements surrounding the ASP.NET Ajax Library during PDC09.

Tim Heuer and Jesse Liberty join Craig Shoemaker to discuss the new features of Silverlight 4, advice for real world development and the new Silverlight HyperVideo Player

Scott Hunter joins us to discuss his team's focus on simplicity and performance in ASP.NET. (Some of what they are thinking about might surprise you!)

Rick Barraza returns to Pixel8 to discuss magic, storytelling, mind control interfaces and even a little development! According to Rick, true experience design mixes elements you may not automatically attribute to software design. Using these unexpected elements along with the tried-and-true principals of user interface design, usability and information design help you craft polished experiences.

This week's episode continues the series of user experience fundamentals with Dr. Tobias Komischke Director of User Experience at Infragistics. Tobias shares seven user-centered design concepts and the associated dos and don'ts with each point.

The dawn of user experience is a contestable topic. Some UX thought leaders place the discipline's origin surrounding the emergence of user centered design in the 1980's, while others see the the beginning coming even earlier. This week's guest is Dr. Tobias Komischke Director of User Experience at Infragistics. Dr. Komischke details why he sees UX originating in the context of World War II where interacting with technical systems became a matter of life and death.

Senior Principal of Product Ideation and Design at Yahoo! Inc. and founder of LukeW Interface Designs Luke Wroblewski joins us to discuss how adding elements of constraint helps shape the design process. Luke also spends some time discussing the often-understated value of the HTML web form.

Welcome to a special Pixel8 patterns show! This week we are joined by User Experience Designer Ambrose Little to discuss Quince the UX Patterns Explorer. Also get a taste of two screencast interviews on implementing Model-View-ViewModel in Silverlight and WPF.

Scott Hunter brings a summary of the new features coming in ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. Learn why you'll never have to type runat="server" again!

Scott Guthrie and Craig Shoemaker take some time out of PDC 2008 to discuss Silverlight and highlights from the keynote address. Scott shares about current-day Silverlight integrations with Live Mesh, living through the Olympics and what might be expected from Silverlight in the future.

Michael Mahemoff has a background in computer science and psychology earning a PhD in building pattern languages. Michael is best known for his book, Ajax Design Patterns, where he catalogs 34 patterns commonly found in Ajax applications. Michael joins Pixel8 giving developers tools for user experience design and shares his experiences around building a pattern language.

Jesse Liberty, the "Silverlight Geek", wants to help you dive deeper into Silverlight 2.0. Tackling practices like working with multi-page applications and clever ways to handle Silverlight payload, Jesse helps take you beyond the intro.

Brian Noyes explains how the Composite Application Guidance for WPF (or Prism) enables teams to build, test and maintain professional WPF applications. Learn how using modularity, regions, composite commands and loosely-coupled events can help your team take control of WPF.

Customer experience expert and persona specialist Tamara Adlin wants to introduce you to "Mary Jo" and "Phillip". Using personas or "fake people" as development targets will focus your teams and allow you to only reveal what is most important to your customers.

Famed developer, speaker and author Billy Hollis joins the show today to discuss why developers need to avoid stagnation and keep pressing forward. Billy also shares some pragmatic wisdom of how to approach building on a rich UI platform.

Learn why software sucks from .NET professor David Platt. David's colorful and thought-provoking insights will have you looking at your applications with a new perspective.

Hear from Ted Neward, Kate Gregory and David Kelly about responding to customer feedback, how to choose from the available UI technologies and how to enable the Vista experience in your applications.

Pete LePage is Product Manager of Internet Explorer Developer Division and he doesn't want your web site to stink. Sharing from his talk given at TechEd 2008, Pete highlights 10 common web design mistakes and tells you how you can bypass the same blunders. Pete also tells us how future features of Internet Explorer will help your visitors leave your site with a smile.

Debugging guru John Robbins brings to life the saying, “you cannot debug what you cannot see.” John is generous with guidance and resources that illustrate why knowing a little about the .NET plumbing can go a long way. Highlighting the show is John's account of how he helped find a very obscure bug in a complex multi-machine system. Don't miss this one!

When first introduced to Dynamic Data, developers often write the technology off as "just another Microsoft grid." Microsoft ASP.NET Program Manager Scott Hunter joins us today to details about what not only makes Dynamic Data valuable but why it's ripe for use in your applications.

Jose Farjardo's "Digg Mashup" demonstrates how end-to-end Silverlight development is possible. From the branded Silverlight install screen to some fresh design details this application is easy for n00bs and power users to use alike.

Each day we all use everyday things to accomplish everyday tasks. For programmers our everyday tools are arrays, loops and OOP constructs. We all use them, but are we all aware of the performance implications? In his talk, The Performance of Everyday Things, Jeffery Richter asks the question, "Do you know what goes on under the hood in .NET?"

Adaptive Path's Senior Interaction Designer Kim Lenox and Design Technologist Dan Harrelson share their experiences in how to think through the UX design process. Adaptive Path uses many tools to help guide their thinking like research-based design and injecting users directly in the design process.

John Gossman, Microsoft Architect for WPF and Silverlight, discusses his experiences watching WPF mature into the powerful framework it is today. John tells us about the trials and tribulations of building Expression Blend on a primitive WPF platform. He also discusses the value of the Model View View Model design pattern and gives hints on the best way to learn WPF.

This week we talk with WPF guru, Dr. WPF. The good Dr. delivers his insights on common misunderstandings in WPF along with a recommendation on one of the most important decisions you can make when building your applications. He also tells us about what he sees as being a true barrier for rapid WPF adoption. Remember though it's easy to get the answers you need... all you have to do is ask Dr. WPF!.

Craig Shoemaker talks with co-founder and president of Adaptive Path Jesse James Garrett about his experiences in creating the Elements of User Experience, the Visual Vocabulary and coining the term "Ajax".

Peter Matuchniak from Technicolor takes us on a tour of the new system they are working on for sattelite cable networks to stream live video to the web via Silverlight.

Markus Egger is the President and Chief Software Architect of EPS Software Corp. and the Publisher of CoDe Magazine. Markus talks to us about his experiences in creating Xiine, a service-oriented WPF document reader for books and magazines.

To continue the conversation surrounding version targeting we have an interview with Chris Wilson, Platform Architect for Internet Explorer. As someone who helps direct one of the most widely used pieces of software on the planet, Chris tells a browser maker's tale of version targeting.

Fresh off the press from our MIX08 coverage we bring you a special show highlights from the keynote addresses. Along with what you get over at the MIX sessions page we also have interviews with Scott Guthrie and Guy Kawasaki.

Ever wanted CSS-like control over your existing Windows Forms applications? Grant Hinkson, Director of Visual Design at Infragistics, shows us how it's possible with AppStylist.

Jeff Veen knows the secret of successful user experiences - and he's ready to share. Jeff is Design Manager at Google for the application division. Jeff helped bring web standards to Wired Magazine, helped shape Blogger and Flickr and was a founding member of Adaptive Path.

Brad Abrams, Group Program Manager for UI Framework and Services, sits down with Craig Shoemaker to discuss some of the origins of the .NET Framework and what's to come from Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET AJAX.

Learn how Rick Barraza, User Experience Architect from Cynergy Systems, creates a unique Microsoft Surface + "Minority Report" experience in WPF.

Welcome to pixel8! Join Craig Shoemaker as he introduces you to the show, tells you what's to come and how you can get pixel8ed.