The Softer Side of Software

The material from Microsoft’s Professional Developers’ Conference for 2005 are now up online as video streams as well as downloadable presentations. 

 

One aspect of software development that has always interested me is that of user interface design and usability. There’s a fascinating, opinionated presentation on user interface design given by Hillel Cooperman. Well worth watching. In addition, he uses as an example the photo-sharing application Max developed in Microsoft to show off some of the features of Vista. It’s interesting (well, to me at least) that the sharing aspect is a P2P experience like Groove – i.e. it’s really simple and transparent to use.