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Mike Temporale
09-06-2006, 06:15 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/283686_software04.html?source=rss' target='_blank'>http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/283686_software04.html?source=rss</a><br /><br /></div><i>"With long, shared desks and a wide-open interior, one work space at Microsoft is an unexpected sight inside a company that has traditionally championed individual offices. But the unusual aspects don't end there. The design team that works in the space spends part of its time generating new hardware concepts for mobile phones and other devices, not limiting itself to Microsoft's customary focus on software. It also studies user behavior and works on design from the outset of product development -- not as a procedural afterthought. Then there's those Nerf toy guns near the window, and all that beer in the refrigerator. "A team that has fun builds fun products," explains Horace Luke, 36, the creative director who leads the group, the User Experience Team, within the company's Mobile and Embedded Devices division."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/Temporale-20060906-InsideMED.jpg" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/> <br /><br />Here's an interesting article that takes us inside the Microsoft MED offices and gives us an inside look at what it's like to work on the coolest phones on the market today. ;)