Bill Buxton is the author of, Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design, published jointly by Morgan Kaufmann and Focal Press. He is Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and has a 30 year involvement in research, design and commentary around human aspects of technology, and digital tools for creative endeavour, including music, film and industrial design, in particular. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was a researcher at Xerox PARC, a professor at the University of Toronto, and Chief Scientist of Alias Research and SGI Inc. – where 2003 he was co-recipient of an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement. In 2007, he was named Doctor of Design, Honoris Causa, by the Ontario College of Art and Design, in 2008 became the 10th recipient of the ACM/SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award for fundamental contributions to the field of human-computer interaction, and in January 2009 was elected a Fellow of the ACM. More information on Buxton and his work can be found at: www.billbuxton.com
18. • When I joined 3 yrs ago, only 1 person in the
technical leadership with design b.g. Now ~10.
• Significant growth in senior ranks joining from
other companies
• But others promoted from within.
• Growth not just at senior level
• In less than two years, we have grown UX
headcount almost one and half times
• This is almost twice the rate that we are hiring
technologists
• We have about 800 designers and user
researchers now
19. Monique Chatterjee is a Lead Designer on the Audrey Louchart joined the Premium Mobile
MS Hardware Design Team. She graduated from Experience Group at MS just 7 months ago. She
Rochester Institute of Technology in ’97 and is was previously a designer at One and Co, wher
now 33. She spent 7 years consulting in Boston she collaborated with MS as a consultant on the
Arc mouse project. Audrey graduated in ‘04 from
and Chicago, designing housewares and consumer
electronics, before joining Microsoft Institute Superior of Design in France, and turns
over 5 years ago. 27 this week.
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What is the Microsoft
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generation web applications.
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31. Expression Web 3
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with the most widely
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Windows Server.
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• Preview launched in October last year
• User-demand driving new features
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trust
– SQL Data Services: Relational database
– .NET Services: More Web standards
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web
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support
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software entrepreneurs all
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jQuery AJAX callbacks
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Platform
Netflix
Kevin McEntee
Vice President, Web Engineering
Netflix
Innovate Deploy
79. Silverlight 3:
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Netflix
Kevin McEntee
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Netflix
GPU support for scaling and stretching video
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running video playback
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4)
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media
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• Advanced logging
media
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• 27 minutes of viewing per session
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• 3.4 petabytes of video delivered
media
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• Super slow motion and high resolution frame
capture
• Metadata overlays
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media
91. Application Development
• Deep linking, navigation and SEO
• Improved text quality
• Multi-Touch support
• 100+ controls available
• Library caching support
RIA
97. Data
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• Binary XML networking support
• Multi-Tier REST data support
RIA
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40kcodecs
smaller than Silverlight 2
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