CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2012-10-26 04:18:10 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

APPEX IS HIRING! The Bing Application Experiences team was formed specifically to build Windows 8 applications, powered by Bing. We are a startup within Microsoft with an aggressive timeline. The Weather, Sports, News, Travel and Finance apps you see in the Windows 8 release were all built by us. 

I am looking for talented UX designers to join our team in Bellevue, Washington! Please send me a message if you are interested in helping us build beautiful, content-rich applications for the biggest product release in Microsoft history! 

2012-10-26 04:08:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Check out the New York Times app for Windows 8! Designed and developed by my team! 

2012-08-30 17:51:37 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

"News, Sports, and Weather are among the best-designed and most effective apps that Microsoft has created for Windows 8." Great work by my team!!!! 

2012-06-19 17:38:45 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

My team designed the News, Finance, Sports, Travel, Maps and Weather apps. It's an exciting time to work at Microsoft!

2012-06-19 17:37:32 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

HUGE announcement from Microsoft yesterday! I'm so proud of my team! 

2012-05-31 20:04:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Yay!! Windows 8 Bing apps!!!

2012-02-29 22:37:38 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 12 +1s)

Check out my team's Weather, Finance and Maps apps in Windows 8 Consumer Preview! What do you think of the design?

http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/search/archive/2012/02/29/win8.aspx

2012-02-29 15:46:42 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Windows 8 Consumer Preview is live this morning! Check it out and tell me what you think about the Bing powered apps!

"The apps for Maps and Weather, both of which are powered by Bing, are simply beautiful. They work well, and of course you can pin your Weather tile to the start screen so that you get live weather updates.


Other apps include Finance, Xbox Games, a Camera app, Video, Messaging, and a Remote Desktop—a Metro style way to browse another system."

2012-02-06 23:27:56 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

2012-01-09 14:14:30 (13 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

Visiting the Charminar while working at the Microsoft campus in Hyderabad

2011-12-19 18:22:48 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Now that the Facebook timeline has rolled out to the public, what does everyone think of the design?

2011-12-07 16:19:57 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

2011-11-26 01:59:57 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Great article about Susan Kare - the designer behind Apple's icons and fonts for the original Mac

2011-11-17 01:07:21 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Remember that kerning game that everyone has been playing? It's really fun for OCD typography enthusiasts like me, but how accurate is it?

2011-11-16 20:40:37 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Check out the Bing homepage today!

2011-11-15 16:21:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Out with the Old, and In with the New: A Conversation with Don Norman & Jon Kolko. I haven't yet watched the video of the entire talk, but blogger, Richard Anderson, has pulled out some great quotes on design and business, including this one about Google:

"Google doesn't understand people -- doesn't understand consumer products; they're all about technologies... They believe in algorithms. They don't care about people. Larry and Serge are brilliant technologists, and they believe they can solve everything with an algorithm... They don't believe in designers -- they believe in testing: we'll see what people like best. What that does is give you design by committee. What is Google's product? The product is not search; the product is not advertising. The product is you. ... They are selling you to their advertisers. Their customers are the advertisers, and... more »

2011-11-14 19:03:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Last weekend, the Oregon Ducks beat the UW Huskies (my Alma Mater), and as much as I hate the Ducks, I was reminded of their amazing investment in design. I would probably be a lot more interested in watching sports if every team had as much attention to detail with their uniforms, accessories, and environmental design as Oregon does! Here's what Todd Van Horn, Nike's top football uniform designer, has to say about it.

2011-11-08 17:06:16 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

The 6 pillars of Steve Jobs's Design Philosophy

2011-11-07 03:52:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Typographer Ryan Gosling

2011-11-03 17:10:24 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 4 +1s)

Even though it has been out for a year now, I just purchased Kinect and my very first xbox - my first video game system since my Super Nintendo! I've been having a lot of fun playing Dance Central, but seeing this video made me realize that there is a lot more that can be done with the Kinect technology besides just playing games. Check out this inspiring video about how Microsoft's Kinect technology is changing the world - and how the users are the ones who are making it happen.

2011-11-02 15:13:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Simple, beautiful info graphic by Frog Design that not only serves as a communication tool for Bloomberg, but also represents a new brand language centered around data.

2011-10-28 17:04:26 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

This forward-thinking vision video from Microsoft Office Labs went viral yesterday, and I'm hearing a lot of mixed opinions about it. Some critics think the video - with its magically clean, luxurious setting - is too far from realistic. John Pavlus argues that corporate future vision videos should feel more authentic (less "Minority Report") and that because "the interfaces of a decade from now are going to be part of a world that looks a lot like the one we live in now" the videos should reflect that.

I would argue that the pristine, clutter-free environment actually helps one to focus on the main subject matter of the video - a beautifully designed, fluid, connected productivity system. When I first watched this video I didn't even notice the environment so much as the beautifully executed metro design of the connected interfaces. If the environment was more... more »

2011-10-25 17:25:42 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

2011-10-25 14:54:10 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

A great example of both beautiful visualization and smart design decisions to help people more easily understand a complex system - the London Tube

2011-10-22 00:11:46 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

NEW ANGRY BIRD!

2011-10-20 15:31:22 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 1 +1s)

Interactive info graphic visualizing Yahoo! mail - great to see companies like Yahoo! investing in data visualization! http://visualize.yahoo.com/

2011-10-19 15:41:50 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Design + Science: "I wonder how much might be gained if designers had a deeper understanding of the science behind synthetic biology and genomics? Or nanotechnology? Or robotics? Could designers help scientists better see the implications and opportunities of the technologies they are creating? Might better educated and aware designers be in a position to challenge the assumptions of the science or reinterpret them in innovative ways? Might they do a better job of fitting the new science into our lives so that we can gain more benefit?"

2011-10-17 17:51:48 (14 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

My new space at Microsoft!

2011-10-16 16:09:36 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

My vintage Massimo Vignelli subway map has arrived!

2011-10-15 20:30:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Another article I found inspiring from Design Mind: What Visual Designers Can Learn From Biggie Smalls

2011-10-15 18:48:26 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I'm just starting to really play around with Siri - I just told her I want to get drunk, and she gave me cab dispatchers I could call. I appreciate how smart Siri is and how the technology doesn't just answer your questions, but is smart about the context.

I'm guessing there are infinite crazy things you can ask Siri - anyone have any favorite Siri answers? This site has some good ones.

2011-10-15 18:17:40 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

A look at the future of global screen culture. Seoul is home to both LG and Samsung, and the local government ambitiously plans to substitute all books in schools with screens by 2015, and replace all paper with tablet computers within 4 years.

2011-10-14 17:34:26 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 3 +1s)

My favorite new feature in iOS 5: proper en and em dashes!!!

2011-10-14 14:01:39 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

#19 in line - almost there!

2011-10-14 14:01:10 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Midnight outside the mall - waiting for the iPhone 4s. I slept on the sidewalk!

2011-10-14 05:20:26 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Anyone waiting in line tonight for the iPhone 4s? I'm definitely camping out at my local Apple store!

2011-10-13 20:37:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

A former professor of mine, Karen Cheng, has designed a beautiful typographic experience inside of the University of Washington School of Business.

2011-10-12 05:28:08 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Great article on the importance of good design in the public realm

2011-10-08 18:39:17 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 1 +1s)

Fairly certain this is the first game ever about kerning - created by +Mark MacKay. Works beautifully on iPad too! Check it out: http://type.method.ac

2011-10-06 17:42:23 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Productive morning at the Bing Design offsite!

2011-10-06 15:34:50 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Steve Heller remembers Steve Jobs: Notable designers, critics and editors offer thoughts on Steve Jobs’s legacy and his most significant contributions to design.

2011-10-04 16:45:02 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Check out the Bing homepage today (www.bing.com). What do you think? Personally, I would have liked the movement to be a lot more subtle, but still very cool to see video on the homepage.

2011-10-04 15:10:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Design is often informed by research, but conversely research is not often informed by design. This experiment has shown that design can enhance research, and that the relationship between the two could be even more powerful if both were informing each other.

2011-10-03 16:58:58 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Today is my 2-year anniversary playing Foursquare! I love features like these that reflect back on past events!

2011-09-29 19:55:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Check out this awesome app designed, animated AND developed by a former classmate of mine, +Jayne Vidheecharoen. Really inspiring app design.

2011-09-29 19:44:12 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Portrait of a modern day video game hero.

2011-09-28 15:19:26 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

In this article by Frog's Robert Fabricant, he speaks of interning at Microsoft in 1996 and receiving a puzzled look from Bill Gates when he introduced himself as a designer and not a software engineer. Since then, Microsoft and other large tech companies have embraced design, but I see Microsoft struggling to catch up every day (Fabricant's analysis of Windows Phone illustrates this). As UX designers at Microsoft, we try to evangelize and promote the importance of design in everything we do, but it is still often an afterthought and not part of early brainstorms and concept creation.

Designers need to be at the forefront of any project - not just waiting in the wings to come in and help improve an innovation. According to Fabricant, "We [designers] must be active participants at [the inception of an idea]. If designers are truly skilled at identifying unmet human needs and creating... more »

2011-09-26 19:02:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Did you like Chapter 5? Now you can get the 15 methods of network visualization in a poster:

2011-09-22 22:28:11 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

New Facebook profile!!! Next step when I get home from work tonight: Design my own header graphic!

2011-09-22 20:25:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Nicholas Felton is my hero right now.