Developing UX

I was tagged in a video yesterday on Facebook, and I completely related to it. That brings my top 3 best video ever to these. Enjoy..

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I may not own an iPad… but thanks for Giovanni’s “help“, my wife now wants one, and I have to admit, after playing Plants vs Zombies on both an iPad and a PC.. the iPad touch is a much better PvZ experience. This video show some of the other things that you *could* to with an iPad… plus velcro. Enjoy!

iPad + Velcro from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.

 

Stephen was the first person that really got me to think about game theory as it relates to general application design. Then my friends at Improving Enterprises introduced me to Luke Hohmann and his Innovation Games approach to product management and games like “buy a feature”. I’m certain that their is much more work that needs to be done in this field. Think about it. Game theory flips “traditional” usability on it heels. Every application that I’ve ever worked on “easy to use” was one of the requirements. In games, “too easy” is a negative. Challenging, engaging, rewarding and FUN are the goals the rule the day. This talk by Jesse Schell really drove this point home for me.

Carnegie Mellon University Professor, Jesse Schell, dives into a world of game development which will emerge from the popular “Facebook Games” era.

- Enjoy!

While I was out at the MVP Summit this summer I had a chance to catch up with Brian Prince from Microsoft and we talked about using Dependency Injection for better code level architecture.  Check out the full video on Microsoft’s ARCCast.

When you’re done. Check out my Dependency Injection on Silverlight presentation.

Looks like Microsoft just announced their plans to support OpenID via Live ID at the Microsoft PDC conference. Now, I’m not *cough* saying that I said they should do this way back in March *cough* or anything… but I will say that I still think that this is a great idea! Now that LiveID will support OpenID and since we can already use CardSpace with OpenID… here’s to hoping that the world (wide web) will be a better place without Usernames and Passwords every where I go!

Public Service Announcement: Friends don’t let friends use passwords on the Internet.

For those of you keeping track… that’s 2 world changing ideas down, 7 more to go, but I think that the first 2 are the most important anyway.   

Related:

• Using CardSpace with OpenID
• 10 great ideas that I don’t have time to create. Maybe eleven

Because friends don’t let friends use HTML Tables …

I’ve been spending more time lately working in MVC and MVP, (specifically M-V-VM) style applications. I thought that it would be a good time to pull out some of the great MVC PSA’s that Adam Keys from FiveRuns and the guys from RailsEnvy put together. They started a while ago, but they keep adding more! Be sure to check out the other MVC PSA’s linked below.

Check out the other Model View Control – Public Service Announcements:

I just posted a new episode of CommunityCast.tv. It’s an interview with Joseph Hill, a good friend of mine that also happens to be the Product Manager of the Mono Project. If you watch the video all the way to the end you’ll see a couple of us giving Joseph a hard time for leaving the Dallas area and heading to Boston (to work for Mono).

Watch it here!

This was referenced today on twitter. (I tried to go back and see who had referenced it, but alas… their twit was lost in the sea of ideas that is twitter. Here’s the crazy article referenced in the video.

Update: I had to swap out the “embedded” video for a image with a link because of because of the differences between Internet Explorer and Firefox. I’ll post more on that later.

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This is *very* exciting! I know that I talked about it the other day, but just to make things easier, here is one of the videos that I did for xTrain directly emended from Adobe.tv.

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Human Flying Squirrels?! Thanks to twitter for pointing me to this. This looks so amazing… I can’t wait to try this someday.

What I’m wondering is this: how do you know if you’re good? It’s seems like you’re either going to be an expert at this… or stuff on a rock. Enjoy!

Here’s the direct link: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e73_1192213802

Update: That link is no longer working. Here’s the same video on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttz5oPpF1Js&feature=related