- Lora Heiny is a super smart and refreshingly fun person, check out her blog: http://www.whatisnew.com/

- The ipod 'touch', is a superb user-experience, it has set the benchmark for touch-screen user interfaces.

- All apple stores have sold-out of the ipod 'touch'.

- 'Pecking' is the slang term for 'tapping-out' a message with a stylus on a mobile device.

- If your bedroom has a fridge/ freezer in it, pack earplugs.

 

 

After a busy day's shopping yesterday, I finally arrived at Microsoft today.

 

Dr. Neil and I made some great progress on our latest project, we're working out of the hotmail building today...

 

 

 Had a fantastic time at Mix UK, I think that it was a big WIN for everybody involved. Dr. Neil and I really enjoyed our session on experience design...

 

I've uploaded all of our photos to facebook, I guess you'll have to make friends with me if you want to see them ;-)

 

There are lots more photos from teh event on flickr: tag=mixuk07

This weekend we re-launched the screenedit.com website. With a lot of hard work from the whole team, but especially Dr. Neil, we have massively improved the website in time for Mix, Microsoft’s premier web design/ development event on Tuesday 11^th-Wednesday 12^th September. We really hope to see you at the event, I especially hope that you will visit the ‘community’ area that we are supporting, and more importantly attend my session on ‘Branding’ and ‘User Experience’ on the Wednesday ;-)  

 sitting in dconstruct, enjoying a session on community featuring George Oates and Denise

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've been fortunate enough to take some time out and attend the 'Flash on
the Beach' conference in Brighton, so far it has been a fantastic event with
some great speakers and a good vibe, here are some of my highlights...

It was a great keynote featuring Mike Downey, Mike Chambers & Mark Anders,
technologies that were presented included an overview of the Flex framework,
Apollo, (A kind of WPF equivalent), and 'Device Central' an application that is sure to make developments for mobile devices in flash a hell of a lot easier, allowing you to emulate and test in well designed GUI.

'Graig Swann's session on alternative methods of interaction with Flash was truly
inspiring and one of the most talked about sessions at the event, his passion
for his work is unbelievable. It focussed on kiosk-style use of flash and he
used all kinds of devices from microphones to webcams to tin foil to interact
with flash. His final slide featuring a quote from Einstein summed-up the
session:

"Imagination is everything, it is the preview of life's coming
attractions".

Aral Balkan had some interesting theories on workflow - based on XP.

Snow Dowd and Robert Reinhardt on 'writing your way to the top, was an inspiring and incredibly honest insight into the pros and cons of writing and the minefield of agents and publishers, check out more at:
http://www.flashsupport.com/forum/

John Harris presented Microsoft's new creative direction excellently, and
showcased their new portfolio of technology and software, 'blend' being the pick of the bunch, more info at:
http://www.microsoft.com/design


Hillman Curtis presented his recent work and his attitude towards his recent
video-for-web projects. It was an inspiration, yet again he has set the
benchmark for an emerging format, more info at:
http://www.hillmancurtis.com/