Best Reading of the Day - Entry 0118 Design at Microsoft

Please forgive the 2nd entry in the "daily" postings but this one is well worth reading as well as entry 117.

Do you wonder how design works?  What is "User Experience (UX)"?  How do the big companies do it?

If they do it well they do it exactly like the small companies.

This blog post from Microsoft is a very good read:

http://blogs.office.com/2014/05/22/the-art-of-designing-office-for-ipad/

Here is a snippet from that piece:

Hello once again from the Office for iPad team. We’ve hit a great milestone with over 27 million downloads of Office for iPad and we would like to say thank you to everyone who has tried out the apps and provided feedback to help us continually improve Office for you. Today we want to give you a behind-the-scenes look at the design and creative journey we took as we reimagined Office from the ground up for iPad.

From its inception, the Office for iPad project has been a blend of imagination and passion. When we had our first tantalizing glimpse of the iPad, we were intrigued by the huge opportunity ahead: enabling Office customers—over 1 billion around the globe—to rediscover the power of mobile productivity in new and exciting ways.

Happy Reading,

J.W. Gant