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Microsoft Hires GUI 'Design Guru'

Posted by Zonk on from the less-shiny-more-sense dept.

overpayd writes "ZDnet is reporting that Microsoft has hired 'user interface guru' Bill Buxton to work as a senior researcher. Will this move help focus the design teams for Vista, Office, etc? From the article: 'My sense is that Microsoft is in transition from an engineering-led company to as much a design-led company ... There are more designers at Microsoft on any single team as there were, not too long ago, in the entire company. It's a wonderful change.'"

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  1. bad slashdot! by Coneasfast · · Score: 5, Informative

    title: Microsoft Hires GUI 'Design Guru'

    slashdot misleads again.
    he is not a GUI design guru, he is a human-machine interaction guru.
    this article has no direct relation to GUIs.

    i can handle the dupes, but it's very bad practice to post misleading information
    (hint to Zonk: READ the article before posting).

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  2. More informative articles about Bill Buxton by eltoyoboyo · · Score: 5, Informative

    TFA is remarkably uninformative. Do not bother with it, if it becomes slashdotted.

    This article (PC or people--who's the boss?) has an interview with him today.

    Bill Addresses his Microsoft transition on his home page: http://www.billbuxton.com/

    He is cited in the Wikipedia article about Human-computer interaction.

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