The Best of Mix09
As you might have noticed Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Backstage was in Las Vegas for Microsoft's Mix 2009 conference. The experience of a conference on this scale was impressive, but the talks even more impressive. Luckily we didn't have to run around with a camera and tripod. Instead Microsoft filmed every talk and put it on-line for everyone to see a few days later.
He's our picks for videos which you shouldn't miss. You will need Silverlight to watch them on the site or you can download them in Windows Media and other formats.
- Jeff Atwood () and (Microsoft DPE get down and intimate with a load of questions from Twitter.
- Bill Buxton 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.
- Johnny Lee covers several interaction techniques enabled by the Wii remote and explains how you can develop your own applications
- How Microsoft go about evolving pieces of UI that haven't seen major change since 1995? This video shows the design process and see the evolution of the design through sketches and prototypes
- panel discussion about aggregating social feeds and services from leading people and companies in this rapidly evolving area
- Dan Roam talks about persuading people with pictures. Whether convincing leadership to back a project, getting a VC to fund a business, building consensus on a project team, or selling a new technology platform within an organization
- early lessons from applied knowledge of touch applications, devices, and design methods
- about the essential concepts of Windows Azure, including what's new
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