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Q&A - what do you work on?

  • Artigo

Someone pointed out to me that I haven't admitted which products get my keen insight into the user experience.

Currently, I'm MacBU's user experience researcher for the following products:

  • PowerPoint
  • Entourage
  • Virtual PC
  • Remote Desktop Connection

I also handle some of the common components, including what we call the out-of-box user experience. My counterpart in Redmond handles Word, Excel, Messenger, and the majority of the common components.

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  • Anonymous
    May 01, 2006
    I use RDC all the time. I've gotta say - it kind of feels like MacBU's red-headed stepchild. There are lots of little oddities about it, but the most annoying by far is that it seems to refuse to run more than one concurrent RDC session at a time. Anyway, the rest of those products are great - Office is amazingly great - so it just makes RDC stick out more.

    Interesting blog btw.
  • Anonymous
    May 01, 2006
    Remote Desktop Client?

    Oh, you're one of my FAVORITE MacBU-ers now....heheheheh
  • Anonymous
    May 01, 2006
    John - I thought I already was. :P

    dispensa - Lots of folks within MacBU use it all the time, too.  My appreciation of the app might simply be that we're both redheads. ;)  
  • Anonymous
    May 01, 2006
    Then by Gosh, will you PLEASE:
    1) Release a Universal Binary of it
    2) Make it work with VNC
    3) Allow more than 1 instance of it at a time - it was made for Expose!


    Its got to be the simpliest app by far to port to a Universal Binary and here we sit... The only reason I can come up with is the fact that with RDC, people (mainly Mac users) by and run Windows Terminal Servers for accessing PC only apps and this tweaks Microsoft the wrong way...


  • Anonymous
    May 01, 2006
    Mac User - Don't forget to submit your feedback to our feedback page:
    http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.aspx?pid=feedback
  • Anonymous
    May 03, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    May 04, 2006
    It kinda sounds like there are only 2 user experience researchers in the MacBU?
  • Anonymous
    May 04, 2006
    Daiya - Remember that MacBU is a small team, so none of the individual teams are very big.  We have two full-time employees for our user experience research team (that's me and my counterpart in Redmond).  We're not the whole story, though.  We employ contractors to help us meet our user experience research needs.  The number varies, depending on our needs at any given point in the cycle.