Shane Morris: UXB

A User eXperience Blog, by a User eXperience Bloke

UXpod Interview: Microsoft Surface and multi-touch interfaces

Late last year my good friend Gerry Gaffney interviewed me for his UXpod podcast. We chatted about...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/11/2010

OZCHI Next Week in Melbourne

OZCHI is Australia’s annual Human-Computer Interaction Conference, where academics and practitioners...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/19/2009

Surface SDK now available to all

If you’re dying to try your hands (get it?) at developing for Surface, then you’ll be please to know...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/19/2009

What does Microsoft have to offer Digital Agencies? Microsoft Innovation Days

In December DPE (where I work at Microsoft) and the Partner Team are getting together to run a...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/08/2009

UX Australia – Canberra 26-28 August

The first ever UX Australia Conference is coming up in August in Canberra. Donna, Steve, Andrew and...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/02/2009

Remix Australia Lonely Planet Surface Demo

The Lonely Planet Surface application that Amnesia Razorfish showed at Remix has been generating...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/02/2009

Surface SDK now available to Microsoft Partners

While Surface units are still not available in Australia, Aussie companies who are champing at the...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/30/2009

Wacom offers for Remix Australia attendees

Remix Australia is on tomorrow, and Wacom are offering some great deals on Intuos3 tablets. Check...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/10/2009

Remix registration is live – Register now and Save! Save! Save!

It was weeks in the making, but the Remix Australia website is finally live and taking...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/05/2009

First Meeting of Silverlight Designer and Developer Network in Sydney May 5th.

Miguel Madero and pals have organised the first Silverlight Designer and Developer Network in Sydney...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/29/2009

My slides from AIMIA Customer Experience Session

Here are my slides from my talk at the AIMIA Customer Experience and Usability seminar in Sydney...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/25/2009

3 Upcoming Gigs: AIMIA; Advertising, Marketing & Media Summit; and CEBIT WebForward

April and May are busy months for public speaking. On April 24th I’m speaking at Customer Experience...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/11/2009

SEAT and the Super Real

I was sent a link today to this site from the UK which is for the launch of the SEAT Exeo (it’s a...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/05/2009

Remix09 is go – June 11 Sydney

The news is up on Kordesy’s blog: Remix is on again! Remix09 is in Sydney on June 11. More details...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/31/2009

UI Design for Developers

Arturo Toledo and Total Training have created an excellent series of short tutorials covering “UI...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 02/25/2009

‘Art and Science of UX’ Deepzoom Resurrected

I’ve finally resurrected my ‘Art and Science of UX’ Deepzoom from my TechEd 08 talk. (Click the link...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 02/08/2009

Free Silverlight training in Melbourne, February 21st.

The Silverlight Designer and Developer Network are holding a free Silverlight training day on...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 02/06/2009

Walk like a man, talk like a user

A new version of Adobe Flash was just installed on one of my computers. That’s cool, but I was a bit...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 02/01/2009

I’m presenting “Website to Webapp” at Web DU, Sydney, 21-22 May

The WebDU gods have smiled on me, and I am presenting “Website to WebApp: Designing for Workflow” at...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/30/2009

Artists in Residence rocked so much it hurt

Well we had our first Silverlight Artists in Residence last week in Melbourne and it totally rocked....

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/13/2008

I'm speaking at IDEF08, November 12 in Melbourne.

I'll be speaking on Wednesday November 12 at the "Develop - Industry Symposium and...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/30/2008

Design principles for Windows 7

Long Zheng has put up some photos from the "Design principles for Windows 7" session at...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/29/2008

You can be a usability specialist like Olly

Nice to see "Technology Usability Specialist" highlighted on the ABC's "Ace Day...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/29/2008

Gekko Expression Media Workshops

Gekko Images in Sydney has introduced three new Expression Media courses: Expression Media as...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/23/2008

Silverlight Designer and Developer Network launches in Melbourne

Jordan Knight has sent out the announcement - and the (temporary) website is up, so the rumours must...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/20/2008

The Delicate Genius and Shane discuss Silverlight

Check out the podcast Kordesy and I did with Jeremy Kelaher at Tech.Ed. The Delicate Genius and...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/20/2008

Usability and User-Centred Design in the Software Development LifeCycle

Here are the slides from a talk I gave to first year Software Engineering students at Monash...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/08/2008

A Website Named Desire

Nishant Kothary launched this site today:  https://www.awebsitenameddesire.com/ The site lets...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/06/2008

Jonas Follesoe and the miracle of Kuler for Blend

Is there no end to the genius of Jonas Follesoe? Now he's gone and made an Adobe Kuler plug-in for...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/30/2008

Teaching 'Principles of Interaction Design' at OzCHI in Cairns in December

I'll be teaching "Principles of Interaction Design" at OzCHI in Cairns on the 8th of...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/28/2008

"The Art and Science of UX" at CHISIG Adelaide on Tuesday

I'll be reprising my Tech.Ed talk - "The Art and Science of UX" at CHISIG tomorrow night (30th) in...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/28/2008

From Website to WebApp - Designing for Workflow - my Oz-IA Presentation

Thanks to everyone who showed up for my Oz-IA presentation at 8am Sunday! Here are the slides: From...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/21/2008

Speaking at PANPA on the Gold Coast this week

I am speaking (twice!) at the PANPA Conference (Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers Association) this...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/06/2008

More RFID wrap-up

Here's a further article re the RFID at Tech.ED from "RFID Journal": Microsoft Australia...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/06/2008

My slides from Tech.Ed Oz - WEB311Designing Compelling Silverlight User Experiences With Expression Studio

Here are the slides from my second talk at Tech.Ed Australia: Web311 Designing Compelling...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/03/2008

Tatham Oddie and the Miracle of the Surface App

Tatham Oddie has done it again, this time creating an awesome little Surface demo application in...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/02/2008

Art and Science of UX Deepzoom

For those who want to follow along in my Tech.Ed Australia "Art and Science of Great User...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/02/2008

August de los Reyes speaking in Melbourne 23 Sept on Microsoft Surface

August de los Reyes, User Experience Director for Microsoft Surface, will be in Melbourne on...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/31/2008

Designing for Workflow, and Interaction Design Studio at Oz-IA

I'll be teaching a half-day workshop, plus delivering an Advanced Session at Oz-IA in September. If...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/25/2008

Expression, Silverlight, User Experience and Web Futures - my 2.5 sessions at Tech.Ed Oz

Here are the details for my sessions at Tech.Ed Australia: My Breakout Sessions The art and science...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/22/2008

More about the Tech.Ed Australia RFID visualisations

More info has surfaced about the RFID work underway for Tech.Ed Australia, including the Silverlight...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/21/2008

Silverlight/Expression trainer wanted for Sydney

Pandy from Alpha Computer Consultants tells me they are looking for a contract trainer in Expression...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/17/2008

Billy Hollis on Getting Smart with WPF

Thanks to Jonas for sending me a link to this video of Billy Hollis presenting a great WPF business...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/10/2008

Gamer-influenced Design

Last year I blogged a little about how we can learn to design for Feedback and Problem Solving by...

Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/21/2008

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