pixel8 :: what makes great user experiences?
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pixel8 :: what makes great user experiences?
great user experiences: the people. the tools. the technology.
Recent Episodes
39 episodes
HTML5 in Internet Explorer: What’s Taking So Long?
Senior Project Manager for Internet Explorer, Pete LePage, joins Pixel8 to discuss the upcoming HTML5 and CSS3 support for IE9 along with a review add...
The Invisible UI : Natural User Interfaces with Josh Blake
Josh Blake of Infostrat joins Pixel8 to discuss Natual User Interface (NUI) development in .NET.
Silverlight 4 with Jeff Prosise
Jeff Prosise and Craig Sheomaker discuss the new features found in Silverlight 4 beta.
ASP.NET Ajax Library Beta with Stephen Walther
Stephen Walther and Craig Shoemaker discuss the latest announcements surrounding the ASP.NET Ajax Library during PDC09.
Silverlight4 with Tim Heuer and Jesse Liberty
Tim Heuer and Jesse Liberty join Craig Shoemaker to discuss the new features of Silverlight 4, advice for real world development and the new Silverlig...
ASP.NET Simplicity and Performance with Scott Hunter
Scott Hunter joins us to discuss his team’s focus on simplicity and performance in ASP.NET. (Some of what they are thinking about might surprise you!)
Magic, Mind-Controlled Interfaces and What Makes an Experience Architect
Rick Barraza returns to Pixel8 to discuss magic, storytelling, mind control interfaces and even a little development! According to Rick, true experien...
7 Dos and Don'ts in Getting Started in User Centered Design
This week’s episode continues the series of user experience fundamentals with Dr. Tobias Komischke Director of User Experience at Infragistics. Tobias...
History of User Experience
The dawn of user experience is a contestable topic. Some UX thought leaders place the discipline’s origin surrounding the emergence of user centered d...
The Value of Web Forms and Design Constraints
Senior Principal of Product Ideation and Design at Yahoo! Inc. and founder of LukeW Interface Designs Luke Wroblewski joins us to discuss how adding e...
Implementing MVVM and Exploring UX Design Patterns
Welcome to a special Pixel8 patterns show! This week we are joined by User Experience Designer Ambrose Little to discuss Quince the UX Patterns Explor...
ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 Enhancements
Scott Hunter brings a summary of the new features coming in ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. Learn why you'll never have to type runat="server" aga...
Silverlight: Live Mesh Integration, Surviving the Olympics and Future Expectations – Interview with Scott Guthrie
Scott Guthrie and Craig Shoemaker take some time out of PDC 2008 to discuss Silverlight and highlights from the keynote address. Scott shares about cu...
Developer’s Guide to User Experience Design
Michael Mahemoff has a background in computer science and psychology earning a PhD in building pattern languages. Michael is best known for his book,...
Silverlight 2.0 : Beyond the Basics
Jesse Liberty, the "Silverlight Geek", wants to help you dive deeper into Silverlight 2.0. Tackling practices like working with multi-page application...
4 Elements of Professional WPF Applications
Brian Noyes explains how the Composite Application Guidance for WPF (or Prism) enables teams to build, test and maintain professional WPF applications...
Hide Your Corporate Underpants - Using Personas in UX Design
Customer experience expert and persona specialist Tamara Adlin wants to introduce you to "Mary Jo" and "Phillip". Using personas or "fake people" as d...
Learning to Build on Rich UI Platforms
Famed developer, speaker and author Billy Hollis joins the show today to discuss why developers need to avoid stagnation and keep pressing forward. Bi...
5 Ways to Know If Your Software Sucks
Learn why software sucks from .NET professor David Platt. David’s colorful and thought-provoking insights will have you looking at your applications w...
UI Decisions: Why & How
Hear from Ted Neward, Kate Gregory and David Kelly about responding to customer feedback, how to choose from the available UI technologies and how to...
Top Web Design Mistakes
Pete LePage is Product Manager of Internet Explorer Developer Division and he doesn’t want your web site to stink. Sharing from his talk given at Tech...
Full Disclosure Debugging
Debugging guru John Robbins brings to life the saying, “you cannot debug what you cannot see.” John is generous with guidance and resources that illus...
Dynamic Data Deep Dive
When first introduced to Dynamic Data, developers often write the technology off as "just another Microsoft grid." Microsoft ASP.NET Program Manager S...
End-to-End Silverlight Development
Jose Farjardo’s "Digg Mashup" demonstrates how end-to-end Silverlight development is possible. From the branded Silverlight install screen to some fre...
The Performance of Everyday Things
Each day we all use everyday things to accomplish everyday tasks.
For programmers our everyday tools are arrays, loops and OOP constructs....
Avoiding Ready-Fire-Aim UX Design
Adaptive Path’s Senior Interaction Designer Kim Lenox and Design Technologist Dan Harrelson share their experiences in how to think through the UX des...
John Gossman Architects WPF
John Gossman, Microsoft Architect for WPF and Silverlight, discusses his experiences watching WPF mature into the powerful framework it is today. John...
Dr. WPF's Prescription for Windows Presentation Foundation
This week we talk with WPF guru, Dr. WPF. The good Dr. delivers his insights on common misunderstandings in WPF along with a recommendation on one of...
Coining "Ajax" and Seeing the Future
Craig Shoemaker talks with co-founder and president of Adaptive Path Jesse James Garrett about his experiences in creating the Elements of User Experi...
Building Immersive Silverlight Video Experiences
Peter Matuchniak from Technicolor takes us on a tour of the new system they are working on for sattelite cable networks to stream live video to the we...
Have You Xiine Markus Egger?
Markus Egger is the President and Chief Software Architect of EPS Software Corp. and the Publisher of CoDe Magazine. Markus talks to us about his expe...
Version Targeting & Web Standards : A Browser Maker's Story
To continue the conversation surrounding version targeting we have an interview with Chris Wilson, Platform Architect for Internet Explorer. As someon...
Version Targeting & Web Standards : A Standardista's Story
Jeffrey Zeldman frames version targeting with context and common sense. This is a standarista's tale of why version targeting is needed, how targeting...
MIX08 Keynote Highlights
Fresh off the press from our MIX08 coverage we bring you a special show highlights from the keynote addresses. Along with what you get over at the MIX...
CSS-like Control Over Windows Forms
Ever wanted CSS-like control over your existing Windows Forms applications? Grant Hinkson, Director of Visual Design at Infragistics, shows us how it'...
Brad Abrams: .NET Yesterday & Today
Brad Abrams, Group Program Manager for UI Framework and Services, sits down with Craig Shoemaker to discuss some of the origins of the .NET Framework...
The Secret to Successful User Experiences
Jeff Veen knows the secret of successful user experiences - and he's ready to share. Jeff is Design Manager at Google for the application division. Je...
8 Days, 1 Dev = MS Surface *Minority Report* Style in WPF
Learn how Rick Barraza, User Experience Architect from Cynergy Systems, creates a unique Microsoft Surface + "Minority Report" experience in WPF.
pixel8 inagur8ion
Welcome to pixel8! Join Craig Shoemaker as he introduces you to the show, tells you what's to come and how you can get pixel8ed.