A history of the Windows 95 Start Button and User Research at Microsoft with Kent Sullivan and Derek Hoiem

A history of the Windows 95 Start Button and User Research at Microsoft with Kent Sullivan and Derek Hoiem

Kent Sullivan and Derek Hoiem were some of the original hires at the User Research Labs at Microsoft. The worked on the exploratory user research that produced the taskbar and Start menu, as well as the iterative research that helped nail down the details. How did the Start Menu and Start Button come to be?

  • https://www.theverge.com/2016/2/11/10923808/microsoft-windows-start-menu-20-years-visual-history
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/globalization/localizability/mirroring-awareness
  • http://becuriouswith.us/
  • https://measuringu.com/usability-history/

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Monorail - Alternative ASP.NET

Monorail - Alternative ASP.NET

Scott interviews two developers who are betting on Monorail on ASP.NET, an MVC Web Framework inspired by Action Pack.

13 Maalis 200727min

Squeezing the most out of Continuous Integration - with Jay Flowers

Squeezing the most out of Continuous Integration - with Jay Flowers

In this long-awaited Part II on Continuous Integration, Scott talks to Jay Flowers, maker of CI Factory about how to squeeze the most out of your Continuous Integration build. If you're not doing CI, this is a great opportunity to start!

6 Maalis 200726min

Hiring and Interviewing Engineers

Hiring and Interviewing Engineers

Scott and Carl talk about the "FizzBuzz" test and try to come up with practical techniques for hiring engineers and technical folks.

28 Helmi 200731min

End to End Tracing

End to End Tracing

Scott and Carl talk about the End to End (E2E) tracing format, how it relates to WCF and how you can use it to introduce system-wide tracing your large multi-machine or multi-service applications and literally trace a "transaction" from Web to backend and back.

21 Helmi 200720min

Static Code Analysis with NDepend

Static Code Analysis with NDepend

Scott and Carl discuss afferent and efferent coupling, and many other code metrics techniques, and wonder why more .NET developers don't use static analysis tools to better understand their designs.

15 Helmi 200729min

OpenID

OpenID

Scott and Carl talk about the Microsoft/OpenID collaboration.

8 Helmi 200734min

Bruce Payette - Powershell

Bruce Payette - Powershell

In this episode Scott gets the skinny on Powershell with Bruce Payette, one of the founding members of the Windows PowerShell team, co-designer of the PowerShell language and the principal author of the PowerShell language implementation.

1 Helmi 200734min

Board Gaming for Programmers

Board Gaming for Programmers

In this episode Scott talks with Chris Brooks and Eli Smith about the evolution and current state of classic board gaming.

23 Tammi 200718min

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