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Sunday / 24 February 08
Tuesday, March 4th I will board a plane with colleague Teun Duynstee to attend Microsoft’s annual MIX08 conference in Las Vegas — a three day conference for designers, developers and decision makers with a partial focus on Microsoft’s products and technologies.
One part of the conference that is particularly interesting to me is the MIX UX track that runs alongside of more technical subjects. Jensen Harris will be talking about the design process of Office 2007’s Ribbon interface. Kim Lenox and Dan Harrelson from Adaptive Path will be taking care of an entire day in the UX track talking about the process of building great user experiences.
Perhaps more importantly is the presence of the IE team. With the recent, heated debates regarding IE8’s versioning switch it will be interesting to see if their radical decision allowed the team to forget about legacy and really move towards a standards compliant browser. Jeremy Keith and Peter-Paul Koch already announced they will be heading down to the conference to slap some sense talk to the team about the versioning switch and their motivation. Also expected is the release of the first IE8 beta.
We will be in Las Vegas from the 4th (leaving Schiphol in the afternoon) until the 8th (leaving Las Vegas in the morning) and staying in the Treasure Island hotel — right across the Venetian. As always, if you’re planning to attend MIX08 and would like to grab a drink or eight (it’s Vegas, come on), send me an e-mail or message me on Twitter.
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Wednesday / 05 September 07
Tomorrow morning I’ll jump on a plane to Gatwick Airport to attend dConstruct on September 7th in Brighton (UK) — a conference aimed at designers and developers of web-based applications. This year’s theme is “designing the user experience”, which has become increasingly important in today’s world of consumer products.
Along with long time friend and fellow student Ron Kok, I’ll attend the pre- and after-party and of course the conference itself. The pre-party starts at 8PM on Thursday night and is hosted by the people from Media Temple at Heist. Following the conference itself on Friday is the after-party hosted by Yahoo! and BBC in the Audio Brighton. Inevitably, we’re there.
We’ll be around from September 6th in the afternoon until September 8th in the evening (no BarCamp for us). If you are around as well, send me a direct message on Twitter. The other option is to walk around the streets of Brighton proclaiming me as your one and only God. Whichever works for you :-)
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Thursday / 05 July 07
Update: Last Monday, September 17th, I started full-time work as a front-end designer/developer at Funda. Looking really forward to the next six months (or more). :-)
Last Friday, June 29th, I graduated with as a Bachelor in Communication & Multimedia Design. That day was the conclusion of a four month internship I did at Funda, where I designed, developed and tested a new online concept, but also the conclusion of a four year study at The Hague University.
Throughout those four years I took on many projects and met many people — I wanted to record this milestone and take the time to thank a couple of people.
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Thursday / 28 June 07
Tomorrow is the big day. Yes, I am talking about the Apple iPhone. Now, I am not talking about the iPhone from a fanboy perspective, but from an interface designer perspective. The iPhone is one of the first consumer products that sports a sleek multi-touch display as its primary way of interfacing. As such, it is the first time we will be able to interact with such a product in a completely new way. Also, we will be able to see Apple’s take on some of the inherent problems and their solutions.
I was especially interested in the iPhone’s virtual keyboard. Due to a lack of tactile feedback on a touch-screen it is necessary for them to create an interface that does a better job than a regular keyboard, if they wish the user to accept that one problem. Having seen the demonstration videos of iPhone’s keyboard, I instantly noticed some problems. Instead of waiting for people’s experiences, I wanted to throw this out in the wild and see if other people have different ideas.
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Sunday / 17 December 06
Today I launched Crumbl.com — a so called single page aggregator focused on delivering gaming news and media from a select group of sources (blogs, media and networks). It currently sports the latest news from 21 sources for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and the Nintendo Wii.
As a casual gamer and news-addict I found myself visiting a dozen of gaming related sites almost every day and skim through the headlines looking for something interesting. Adding these sites’ feeds to my reader would only annoy me. So, last november I started designing and building this little project. I spend the last month putting finishing touches on the design and code and talking with sites to offer platform-seperate feeds. Now it’s available for everyone to use.
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