My name is Justin and I'm a developer on the Zune Client Shell. Before your eyes glaze over, let me say that it's the coolest job in the world–I get to turn artist's concept drawings of how the Zune software looks and make it real. For example, that cool button color animation that goes across when you buy a track in the marketplace? I made that. It's all part of the experience. Music Outwardly, there’s little indication it’s happening. Perhaps the eyes close slightly; the body slowly rocks to the...

The Zune team and I produced a series of videos meant to highlight the four areas of Zune this year: Device, Social, Software and Marketplace. These were originally meant for journalists and folks in the media, but I thought you’d be interesting in seeing them. In each of the videos, we asked different folks within the Zune organization to talk freely about their experience on the Zune team, what they tried to accomplish, and the rationale behind some key product features. We have a few hundred folks...