I’ve Fallen in love with a presentation I’ve not seen
NOTE TO MICROSOFT:
Please release a video of Hillel Cooperman’s PDC
presentation entitled 'The New Windows “Longhorn” User
Experience: Get Users to Fall in Love with Your
Software'
Earlier this week in Paul Thurott's
blog
Hillel Cooperman, Product Unit Manager of the Windows
User Experience Team at Microsoft gave a rousing and,
dare we say it, inspiring presentation...Hillel, who
gave the Gates keynote Longhorn demo, was one of the
best speakers and presenters we've ever seen, and
we're officially begging everyone else at the software
giant--including Gates himself--to study his style and
enthusiasm. Hillel quickly whipped the crowd into a
frenzy with a relaxed, hilarious, and dead-on
explanation of what was wrong with today's
software--including that by Microsoft--and what the
software company was doing to fix it...
Then from Chris Hollander
This was, far and away, the most effective session that
I've attended. Incredibly well designed, produced and
delivered; Hillel layed out the new, user centric,
experience centric, emotion centric approach that WE
(thats big WE; not we you and, I, or We Microsoft, but
WE, ALL of us) can start taking towards computing.
People were truly captivated; the audience was
laughing, nodding, gasping, clapping, whooooping, and
staring slackjawed pretty much in unison...
All I can say is WOW! This must have been one hell of a
presentation and I only hope someone in Redmond happens to
read some of these resounding reviews and decides that
releasing a DVD of this one would be a great idea (HINT
HINT)