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30 September 2009
User Experience – The Kettle.
  How many kettles have you owned over the years? is it more than one? has it always been the same one? It’s a pretty straight forward device, you fill it up with water, it heats up and then you tip the contents out into a container. Why then are Read More...
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10 September 2009
Apple stole my whitespace.
I often meet up with a co-worker (Michael Bach, Product Manger & Designer for Microsoft.com/Web ) and we talk all things design. As it for us is therapy given we are constantly surrounded by engineers within Microsoft :) One insight Michael came up Read More...
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11 June 2009
Function, Form, Fashion – Shanemo.
Shane Morris , who for the few left that don’t know is one of our User Experience Evangelists in Australia. Shane’s actually got a deep background in Usability and is a lot of his fingerprints on our upcoming release of Expression Blend – Sketchflow. Read More...
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09 June 2009
Design First, Engineer Second.
A lot of the time folks write off Apple customers as simply being MacTards , fans that are so pre-occupied with Apple and less about the products they make. In part that can be true, I’ve meet some extreme ignorant fans, but in general that’s not true Read More...
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24 March 2009
Engineer and Designer walk into a bar..
An Engineer and a Designer walks into a bar, and notices a picture hanging on the wall. It’s a picture of a dog screwing in a light bulb. The engineer turns to the designer and says “that’s just not possible, the dog hasn’t got opposable thumbs..” the Read More...
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25 January 2009
I hate it when a designer touches XAML..
I’ve meet with a few die-hard Silverlight developers in my time and some feedback I get at times is how designers produce bad XAML. “..I hate it when a designer touches XAML..” – oh? why? My first thought was, “bad XAML?” how on earth can a designer produce Read More...
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15 September 2008
How to: Make Innerglows with Expression Blend.
I'm knee deep in a WPF project i'm writing for my team. I had the need today to have an innerglow, and noticed that we seem to have forgotten this little BitmapEffect of goodness (which I'll be promptly hassling Jon tomorrow for in the next revision). Read More...
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30 June 2008
Silverlight: VisualState Manager, Storyboards and why designers should care about them both.
I've seen a lot of talk around VisualState Manager online and it mostly covers button states and so on. What I want to do here in this post is illustrate why VisualState Manager is a handy tool for the average interactive designer out there and how it Read More...
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29 June 2008
Silverlight Experiment: Create a PullDown Menu using Storyboards.
This is a basic example of how to create a "PullDown Menu" using Silverlight and Expression Blend. The Objectives The GUI will have a PullDown Menu (UserControl) under the main outer chrome. It's intended that when a user clicks on the "MainMenu" Read More...
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20 June 2008
WebDesign 2008 - Going from Wireframe Zero to UX Hero
July 21st Seattle - I'll be speaking at the WebDesign 2008 conference here in Seattle on " Going from Wireframe Zero to UX Hero ". The session is basically going to cover the "How" I guess on what's next after you've made the leap Read More...
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29 May 2008
Windows 7 Multi-touch: Think beyond your Notebook of today.
  I like the rest of the world read about our Windows 7 Multi-touch capabilities and personally thought it was brilliant move on our part. As this paves the way for mainstream use around multi-touch devices, something that the next generation of Read More...
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25 March 2008
Learning Maya and the side lessons i've learnt.
I shopped around a lot in the past 5 months as I've wanted to get back into 3D modelling for quite some time. Given my day to day life is Microsoft, I needed a non-Microsoft hobby - mainly to keep me partially sane. I began to research what software out Read More...
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01 March 2008
Designers, Designers, Designers..
Q.What do you expect from Microsoft going forward in the design space. I meet with a lot of customers in many forms of communication. I often am surprised not by the "we are thinking of adopting Silverlight/WPF" meetings but more, "We have adopted them, Read More...
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04 February 2008
Meet "Dax", my idea for a mascot (not official).
I like both the "blue monster campaign" and SIlverlight and given I'm dabbling around in 3D at the moment, I decided to play around with the idea of combining the two. Note : This is not the official mascot for Silverlight, instead it's simply me mucking Read More...
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28 January 2008
What resolution do you design RIA in?
I read an interesting post this morning on how the author wanted folks to consider the 800px resolution for their designs. He cites that although he has a large resolution, it doesn't mean that he's not also using other applications at the same time. Read More...
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