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Futures in Design with Kip Voytek

Kip Voytek's great design presentation today was, in my mind, underattended. I am sometimes concerned that there isn't the right developer/designer mix here at MIX. Kip is from the R/Greenberg Associates design agency. Here are some of my notes from the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 01, 2007 6:45 PM by robburke | 1 Comments

Cool Interface of the Day - Production/Final Video Blending

Striking interface , magnificent content: Hover your mouse over the video to blend a region of pre-production video over top of the polished post-production work. Click to see both at once. Gorgeous . By Nastuh, found through Will Weyer's Fresh Electronic Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2007 11:41 AM by robburke | 0 Comments

Express Yo'self at Designertopia with new Expression Betas

Two days of designer/developer fusion kick off today at the Designertopia conference in London . Just in time for Designertopia comes good news from the Expression design tools front: Expression Design hit Beta 1, and Expression Blend hit Beta 2. Both Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 11:16 AM by robburke | 1 Comments

WPF: Free DataGrid control, Doninoken movie

There were a couple of interesting Windows Presentation Foundation bits I've seen recently. A third-party called XCeed has released a DataGrid control for WPF that is free of charge! A DataGrid was conspicuously missing from the WPF toolbox and I think Read More...
Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 2:23 PM by robburke | 5 Comments

Develop, Design, Deploy

Over the holidays, I built a data-driven website for a family member. It gave me a chance to explore some new Microsoft web technologies and tools hands-on. Here's how I developed, designed, and deployed the site: Develop: using ASP.NET AJAX and Visual Read More...
Posted Monday, January 15, 2007 1:13 PM by robburke | 4 Comments

Designertopia

I want to go to Designertopia , a conference about Microsoft's new designer-oriented tools that is taking place in London on February 1st and 2nd. The focus seems split between (1) the new Expression applications, (2) cross-browser, cross-platform technologies Read More...
Posted Monday, January 15, 2007 11:13 AM by robburke | 5 Comments
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Express Yourself (Expression Web, Expression Blend)

The Expression line of applications are a suite of designer tools that help integrate the designer and developer's workflows. Expression Web Expression Web was released earlier this month. It's a professional design tool for creating modern, data-driven, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 19, 2006 4:22 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

where Design comes from this month

There's a fresh wealth of design ideas in this month's Where Design Comes From newsletter . My favorite piece is Jonathan Yuen's design portfolio , which he's delicately sketched with ink and innovation. Interacting is a joy and gives a satisfying sense Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 3:21 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

Petzold's new WPF book, Applications = Code + Markup, is brilliant

I've been meaning to write for some time about Charles Petzold 's book on the Windows Presentation Foundation, Applications = Code + Markup . Early reviews of the book offered glowing praise , so I ordered a copy of my own. I've read enough of it by now Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 27, 2006 10:23 PM by robburke | 1 Comments

Dave and Rob's Top 5 Tips for Free Microsoft Support and Learning Resources (and the Best of the Rest!)

Dave and Rob ’s Top 5 Tips for Free Microsoft Support and Learning Resources 1. MSDN Forums – http://forums.msdn.com Looking for answers to your toughest technical questions? The MSDN forums are regularly visited by members of the product teams, MVPs, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 20, 2006 4:57 PM by robburke | 1 Comments

Fun with Texture Transfers

One of the image processing technologies that Andrew Blake (of Microsoft Research) showed us during his Computer Science and Illusion presentation was image quilting , where bits of a texture are stitched together into a large, cohesive image. A cool Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 19, 2006 3:06 PM by robburke | 5 Comments

Expression Interactive Designer for RC1 (September CTP)

The Expression Interactive Designer September CTP is now available for download from the Microsoft site. The September CTP is compatible with .NET 3.0 Release Candidate 1 and will let you bring designers into the workflow for building Windows Presentation Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 06, 2006 11:59 AM by robburke | 1 Comments
 
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