Tag Archives: Experience Matters
Microsoft: Stop the shiny object syndrome.

Microsoft: Stop the shiny object syndrome.

It’s soon time for yet another product roll out, you’re in the marketing team and faced with a urgent issue – we need example demos to excite the developer base?. Like most other Product Managers you look for the nearest and latest vendor, drop a few hundred thousand in their laps and say the words [...]

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Silverlight Installation / Preloader Experience – BarnesStyle.

Silverlight Installation / Preloader Experience – BarnesStyle.

When I was in the Silverlight Product team, I had many visions of where I wanted to take the product beyond where some of my co-team mates were comfortable with (slow painful incremental growth in terms of change).
One of the main focal areas I wanted to fix, was the overall Installation and Preloading Experiences for [...]

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Do we have one site too many?

Do we have one site too many?

In the past month if you’ve interacted with via twitter, email, facebook etc you’ve probably been asked by me “How many sites do you visit a week”.
I only ask is that I’ve got this theory or ill feeling that we at Microsoft are making far too many websites than we need to, but at [...]

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Apple vs Microsoft – Web Usability.

Apple vs Microsoft – Web Usability.

I recently found a site via a colleague today, which basically outlines the way in which we approach our customers/consumers via the web compared to Apple.com
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At first I just simply groaned, and waited for the beating, as I know internally I’ve moaned about our approach, so i was [...]

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