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The Signal is a weekly podcast that connects you to behind-the-scenes activity related to MIX08. We’ll interview speakers, attendees, staff, and other notables. If you have a question for them to address on a future show, e-mail signalm@microsoft.com or leave a voice-mail message for them at (425) 703-4650.

The Signal Episode 12: BMWs, Breathalyzers, and Kong

Blog.PostedBy: Joshua Allen | Feb 29th @ 9:08 AM
MIX08 is next week, and sadly, this is the last episode of The Signal. Mike and Thomas start by talking about real code in keynotes, the special screening of The King of Kong, and Steve Wiebe’s Donkey Kong world record attempt. You’ll hear a bit about what it takes to coordinate a record breaking attempt and why we have to respect the chain of custody. Then, after Thomas reminisces about his mobile breathalyzer experience, we call Jimmy Kim from Nexon/Innotive (at 3:00am in the morning!). Jimmy talks about his panel and session at MIX08, how WPF, Silverlight, and XAML make it easy to target multiple clients, how clients like BMW, Hyundai, and Nike need “one source, multi-use” for their assets, why he worked for six months to tweak BMW’s user interface, how design impacts the bottom line, and his session at MIX08 titled Effective User Interfaces in WPF and Silverlight.  

As mentioned, this is the last episode of The Signal for MIX08. Thank you for listening, and we hope to see you at the event!
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The Signal Episode 11: Scott Stanfield and Guitar Grease

Blog.PostedBy: Joshua Allen | Feb 15th @ 2:02 PM

Scott Stanfield from Vertigo brings his toys to the luxurious studio and comes up with the new acronym WYNWYNI (What You Need, When You Need It). Time is taken to reminisce about demos like FM Stocks and ASP.NET Starter Kits and talk about the current Family.Show (and consanguineal marriages) and Slide.Show. Then the show really gets rolling with special guitar grease for Guitar Hero, how 18 employees attack the MIX conference, Scott’s super-secret blacklisted MIX08 session (“one of the coolest things I’ve seen from Microsoft in a long time”), and Mike’s new catch-phrase…we’re so hot!

The Signal is a weekly podcast that connects you to behind-the-scenes activity related to MIX08. We’ll interview speakers, attendees, staff, and other notables. If you have a question for them to address on a future show, e-mail signalm@microsoft.com or leave a voice-mail message for them at (425) 703-4650.
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The Signal Episode 10: Paul Dawson and Guerilla Ethnography

Blog.PostedBy: Joshua Allen | Feb 7th @ 10:31 AM
The Signal is back with another Earth-shattering episode! Thomas and Mike chat about the design and experience of Wrigley’s 5 Gum, and Mike reviews the Helvetica documentary just released on DVD. Paul Dawson from Conchango swoops in and rescues the show while explaining the title of his MIX08 session, Virgins, Spaceships, and Hob-nailed Boots. Paul talks about Virgin Atlantic, creating experiences that employ all of the senses, the increasing recognition of user-centered design, Experience Architectures, using stories to paint a vision, spying and guerilla ethnography, and why Paul made the trip from the U.K. to MIX06 and MIX07. Yes, we said guerilla ethnography.   The Signal is a weekly podcast that connects you to behind-the-scenes activity related to MIX08. We’ll interview speakers, attendees, staff, and other notables. If you have a question for them to address on a future show, e-mail signalm@microsoft.com or leave a voice-mail message for them at (425) 703-4650.
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The Signal Episode 9: Steve Ballmer and MIX UX Track

Blog.PostedBy: Joshua Allen | Feb 6th @ 10:18 AM
This week, Steve Ballmer interrupts Thomas and Mike while they provide tips and tricks for MIX08 attendees. Then, Nishant Kothary and Michael Suesserman talk about the designer-focused “conference within a conference” called MIX UX. Hear about sessions that explore the practice of user experience including those by Lou Carbone, David Armano, and Dan Roam. Then, Nishant and Michael talk about Adaptive Path’s interactive workshop and a session by Microsoft’s own Jensen Harris where he’ll describe how his team engaged with users, gathered their feedback, and created the new Office 12 user experience. To close it out, Nishant threatens Mike about pulling his underpants over the back of his head.   The Signal is a weekly podcast that connects you to behind-the-scenes activity related to MIX08. We’ll interview speakers, attendees, staff, and other notables. If you have a question for them to address on a future show, e-mail signalm@microsoft.com or leave a voice-mail message for them at (425) 703-4650.
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The Signal Episode 8: Erik Saltwell, PHP, and Wordpress

Blog.PostedBy: Joshua Allen | Jan 18th @ 4:31 PM

This episode features the return of the Spider King where Thomas and Mike talk about bit shift operations and blogging. Then, Erik Saltwell and Nishant Kothary join the discussion and touch on user experience, why “designer” is an imprecise term, the aesthetics of markup, upcoming features in Expression Web, PHP IntelliSense and #includes, the WordPress and PHP session at MIX08, and Erik on customer intimacy (SFW). Enjoy!

The Signal is a weekly podcast that connects you to behind-the-scenes activity related to MIX08. We’ll interview speakers, attendees, staff, and other notables. If you have a question for them to address on a future show, e-mail signalm@microsoft.com or leave a voice-mail message for them at (425) 703-4650.
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