Microsoft Talk

Explore the future of the Web with fellow developers and designers at MIX09, March 18 - 20, 2009 at The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas.

Now in its fourth year, MIX is a unique technology conference that connects Web professionals with industry leaders to explore the future of the Web together.

If you’re a designer or developer who builds on the Web, MIX09 is the place to learn about products and technologies that help you plan for the future while addressing today’s economic challenges.

Learn how to use technology to increase customer satisfaction and impact the bottom line.
Hear about advances in technologies like Silverlight™, Internet Explorer®, Expression®, ASP.NET, Windows® 7, and Windows® Azure, and discuss topics like design, user experience, Web standards, data visualization, workflow, and social networks.
Network with attendees from recognized companies like frog design, Yahoo!, MySpace, Baidu, ESPN.com, Metaliq, Adobe, Digg, Facebook, Schematic, Netflix, Fidelity, NASA, Amazon.com, and many, many more.
And, be among the first to walk away with early versions of our latest software!

At MIX09 you’ll have the opportunity to learn from and connect with more external speakers
than ever before.

If you’re a technical professional, you’ll be energized by the exciting product and technology announcements and highly-focused session content that continues to make MIX a key industry event.

If you’re a creative professional, particularly someone who has not previously attended MIX, this is the year you cannot miss. More than ever before, MIX09 content was developed with designers and UX professionals in mind.

Take a look at the first block of session announcements and start planning to attend MIX09!

C# for Designers
AGI

Having some programming knowledge as an interactive professional can set you apart from the rest. Come learn the essentials of C# for creating interactivity in Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation in this session, and add another weapon to your design arsenal.

Escaping Flatland in Application Design: Visualizing Data
Peter Eckert — projekt202; Eric Gould Bear — projekt202

In the world of the rich Web 2.0 applications, we’ve been inundated with a deluge of shiny buttons, meaningless photo reflections and bad logo designs. In this new golden age of rich Internet application design is this the best we can do? In this session, learn how data is represented in applications and how to use advanced data visualization to better create and use software for the Web and desktop.

From Concept to Production: Design Workflow with Microsoft Expression Studio
Christian Schormann — Microsoft Corporation

Expression Studio is a suite of tools for professional designers to create interactive applications and interactive content for the standards-based Web, as well as for the Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation platforms. In this session, we look at successful workflow models between designers and developers using Microsoft Expression Web, Blend, Design and Encoder. This session specifically focuses on creating rich Internet applications with Silverlight, and shows how the next generation of the Expression suite will make the design workflow faster, easier and richer. We also explore how developers and designers can integrate and divide production tasks in a meaningful and harmonious way.