Mix 09 – Day 1

Mix09, day1 keynote speaker was Bill Buxton. In his talk, he drew a distinction between Experience Design vs. Interface Design by tracing the history of design over the years. How developers tend to focus on Interface Design when they should begin with Experience Design. He was followed by Scot Guthrie (VP .NET Division) who demonstrated some new tools and technologies from Microsoft that kept the focus on Experience Design. The keynote, had its share of new product release announcements including – ASP.NET MVC 1.0 framework (useful for next generation NetViewer/RecordsExplorer perhaps?) and IE 8.0. Additionally, several CTPs and betas were made available for download.