Looking ahead to MIX10

March 12, 2010

Mix10_LoveFest_blk_240Tomorrow morning at 5.30 AM, I begin the now annual trek from Birmingham, UK to Las Vegas, Nevada for Microsoft’s MIX conference, now in its 5th year. They describe it as.

MIX is for designers and developers who build innovative consumer web sites. Attendees are coders, strategists, information architects, visual designers, UX professionals and digital marketers. They represent top web sites, web start-ups, interactive agencies and other organizations that do business on the Web.

It is the most relevant conference to what we do here at i2Q / Synetrix in terms of our choice of technology (as Microsoft Gold Partners) and that almost all of our applications are web focussed.

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A User-Centric Design Philosophy

March 8, 2010

Adoption

At i2Q/Synetrix during the development of the applications making up the OPENHIVE platform, we adopted a number of new working processes and technologies like Agile Development, Microsoft Silverlight with a new (Model-View-ViewModel) application architecture, and a User-Centred design process.

Applying an Agile development process has improved our delivery. Silverlight has enabled us to provide rich, flexible and powerful user experiences which in conjunction with an MVVM architecture have allowed the smooth integration of interface and logic.

Informing all of this is the User-Centric philosophy we aim to follow in the design and development of all our applications.

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