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One percent for art: Napkin Math a.k.a. The Calculator in OneNote 2007

Posted Monday, February 27, 2006 10:00 PM by Chris_Pratley
I like to love the software I use. I gather many of you do too. In the process of designing a new release of OneNote its important to keep this in mind, since it is easy to make a product that meets a lot of business criteria but has no soul. For example, Read More...
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Your first five minutes with OneNote

Posted Sunday, February 19, 2006 2:04 AM by Chris_Pratley
Being a new type of application has its downsides. On the one hand the field is open and we can define a whole new experience for using a PC. On the other hand, most people who see us for the first time just look at us and say "huh?" and move on. Grr. Read More...
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Designs, anyone?

Posted Thursday, April 15, 2004 1:53 AM by Chris_Pratley
Excellent. Lots of feedback. But almost all from developers it seems. Having an API for OneNote is certainly the plan, so it is good to hear how people hope it would be used. No need to convince me that it is necessary. And I agree with all the sentiments Read More...
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Design a blogging feature for OneNote

Posted Wednesday, April 14, 2004 1:08 AM by Chris_Pratley
I thought it might be fun to try a little interactive design experience. There's been a lot of discussion about blogging from OneNote, and how it would make a good tool for managing posts, etc. So it is easy to say "hey, add support for blogging to OneNote!". Read More...
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Awards for OneNote

Posted Wednesday, April 14, 2004 12:33 AM by Chris_Pratley
We've had a good week here last week on the OneNote team. First, we heard that we had won a Microsoft internal award for “Best Software User Experience” at our Design Day 2004. This is an event that is held each year as a kind of internal Read More...
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Avoiding typical pitfalls

Posted Friday, February 27, 2004 2:10 AM by Chris_Pratley
So, how to make sure we didn't have a typical "v.1" product with OneNote? As I mentioned last post , it isn't as simple working on the product until it is "perfect" in design - that approach doesn’t work. Takes too long and you don’t really Read More...
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Schools of development

Posted Tuesday, February 24, 2004 11:35 PM by Chris_Pratley
I was thinking to write about how software is made. First, I'll start by describing three methods of developing software. I am sure there are more, and someone has probably written books on this, but hey, this is an informal medium. Here they are: The Read More...
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OneNote and Version 1

Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2004 11:07 PM by Chris_Pratley
Let's say you manage a development team that has a few developers, a few testers, and a handful of Program Managers. You've already laid out a "vision" for a product you plan to build, and most everyone privy to the plan seems to think the idea is solid Read More...
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Why Doesn't OneNote have Feature X?

Posted Saturday, January 31, 2004 1:19 PM by Chris_Pratley
Who decides what features go into a software product? If a software product doesn't have a feature, why is that? My entire career at Microsoft has been as a Program Manager. You can probably read elsewhere exactly what that means, but for now we'll just Read More...
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Humility and handwriting

Posted Friday, January 30, 2004 8:23 PM by Chris_Pratley
Designing the actual experience of handwriting in OneNote 2003 was quite a challenge. We didn’t want to just replicate paper, since that didn’t seem to be adding enough value. So we got quite interested in the idea of trying to determine the Read More...
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