...and it's from Amazon. Seriously. I've been happily buying books and electronics from Amazon for years, when last week I happened to stumble across Amazon's new site, Amazon Fresh.  Although it's very much in startup mode (they only offer service to certain zip codes around Seattle, USA), it's a classic example of how great user ...

The Syndicated Client Experiences Starter Kit & Reader SDK (a.k.a. the same technology that we used to build the Architecture Journal Reader) has now been released on http://www.windowsclient.net.  This is a great way to build offline, immersive, and searchable client applications that can aggregate multiple feeds into a single ...

Good news from Karsten's blog.  The source code for the hierarchical view carousel has been released.  I played around with this WPF code a couple of years ago and found it very useful for displaying navigable, hierarchical sets of data.   As Karsten mentions, the code is based on an older drop of the framework, and is ...

Rich Application or Web Application?  ASP.NET or Sharepoint?  Regular ASPX controls or AJAX? In sessions at conferences (most recently TechEd in Barcelona), I've been discussing the many choices that architects and developers face every day, especially when it comes to user experience.  To help get across the point, I put ...

I often get asked the difference between User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX). Although the original intent and definition of UI started out in the right direction, too many times I've heard it used to explain just the visual aspects (or cool factor) of an interface.  To give you a non-technology related example, let me show you the ...

Thanks to all who came to my session this morning on ''Putting the User back into Architecture'' - I really enjoyed the session.  Looking at the feedback, many of you asked for a recap of the URLs and other references that I had in the deck.  Here they are:   URLs: User Interface Hall of ...

This week I'm in Barcelona for TechEd Developers Europe where I have a session called ''Putting the User back into Architecture''.  If you are at TechEd, be sure to stop on by - it's tomorrow (Tuesday) at 9am in ''Tent 2''.  (and before you ask, no - I've no idea what presenting in a tent will entail... :)

Today concludes Adaptive Path's UXWeek conference in Washington DC.  Overall, it's been an interesting experience for me personally, especially connecting with full time UX practitioners and designers to work out how the design world and software architecture/engineering world could work better together.  The sessions ...

It appears that the sessions/videos from the Microsoft Architecture Forum in Japan have been posted online here.  The site lists sessions from Gianpaolo Carraro, Ron Jacobs, Mike Platt and myself.  Here's a direct link to my session on User Experience for Architects (in Japanese).

No guarantees that I'll be blogging every day from the event this week, but I did want to mention a couple of very interesting sessions on the 2nd day.  First up was Lisa Strausfeld, principal at Pentagram.  Lisa and her team were on stage explaining some of the UX concepts behind the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) program.  The ...