Videos tagged with Design

In the strategic design space, "defuzzing the future" involves helping organizations figure out what their challenges and opportunities actually are and then helping them move forward in human-centered ways. Come see how the new generation of design agencies becomes more involved in complex organizational issues, in the creation of organizations, and in their many innovation-related systems. Le...

Imagine if your users could add handwritten annotations over online photos, greeting cards or video (including live playback of your handwriting). Learn how to use Ink to take your Web sites to new heights of interactivity, personalization, social interaction, and usability. Learn the key design principles for Ink, and see how to code for Ink in the browser and on the server.

Today's web properties aim to differentiate themselves from their competition by offering dramatically better user experiences to their customers. These new web experiences include improved interactivity, integrated media and easy access to ever-increasing varieties of content. Add the convergence widespread broadband and you'll see that content-rich web properties can now strive for the best o...

Join frog design, Microsoft, and Yahoo! in a discussion and demonstration of the tools and technologies used in the development of the new Yahoo! Messenger. We touch on everything from Microsoft Expression Blend and Microsoft Visual Studio to Photoshop and Cinema 4D.

For a hobby that revolves around dead people, genealogy is remarkably popular: it's the fastest-growing scene in North America. And a perfect study for Vertigo's next Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) reference application for Microsoft. Our designers employed every trick in the WPF book (styles, resources, templates, data binding, animation, transforms) to present an innovative visualizati...

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is the first Microsoft platform designed to empower designers. With tools like Expression Blend, designers can create beautiful experience with little or no code. This talk will discuss how WPF frees developers from mundane pixel tweaking and empowers them to do what they do best: code and business logic. From building data models that allow easy binding to...

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a paradigm-shifting framework for building rich Windows applications. Learn how to build an application with seamless deployment, rich user experience, great printing, and the ultimate in information visualization. Walk away understanding the fundamentals of the XAML markup and programming model: layout, controls, documents, media, 2d, 3d, data binding, ...

If your company is mired in the goo and muck of old-school thinking, throw out your old processes and start collaborating in an agile and innovative way. Talk with workflow veteran and user experience strategist Kelly Goto and creative director of Swedish's strategic communication agency FutureLab, Kristian Bengtsson, about new approaches. Explore how to be courageous, radical and innovative to...

Come see and hear about the amazing experiences Yahoo! has built using Microsoft .NET 3.0 and Microsoft Expression.

With the recent rise in popularity of AJAX, we now have the opportunity to more closely model the real flow of the user. This presents a radical change to the designer paradigm-designers create in "chunks" while users think in "flows". Come explore interaction styles and design principles that can inform future design projects. Come see a set of common design patterns that are currently in vogu...