
Got an email this morning from one of our talented designers who has a ton of Flash/Flex experience and is interested in joining our “UX Integration” team. He wanted to know what was the most important stuff to be learning.
Posted on 21 July 2009
The following is some quick musings on a question brought up by one of the integrators on our team. This was my quick response to him and our team. The question was: "Do you guys think that visual design and UX are very different things? Like as in good user experience goes beyond the GUI and goes deep into interaction and proper software architecture." Continue Reading
Posted on 10 July 2009
Believe me when I say you need to ditch your old version of Blend and install the latest here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=92e1db7a-5d36-449b-8c6b-d25f078f3609 Blend is amazing now! Expect reviews from me soon. Continue Reading
Posted on 10 July 2009
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/07/10/silverlight-3-released.aspx This is a great release… something MSFT should really be proud of and a real enabler for amazing experiences across multiple platforms. I am just finishing up my first v1 of an SL3 project that we have been building on beta bits and the experience has been great. Its not so hard to be a [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 26 March 2009
I have been so busy I wasn’t able to contribute to the flood of blogs and tweets about Mix this year. Ironically I was there and I did tweet like crazy from the keynotes and the sessions. It was a great year for Mix… For me it was the magic of the “3’s” year for [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 19 March 2009
Very exciting day for some really cool work that we have been doing at IM. Today we are announcing publically the IdentityMine Gesture Engine. Read the press release here: http://cs.identitymine.com/blogs/im_news/archive/2009/03/19/identitymine-introduces-the-identitymine-gesture-engine-to-support-advanced-multi-touch-development.aspx Quote from the website: “In addition to multi-level gesture support the IdentityMine Gesture Engine also support for user recorded custom gestures. These gestures can be [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 27 January 2009
http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/dd434644.aspx Continue Reading