Free video series “Principles of design: Symmetry and asymmetry”

Symmetry and asymmetry - design principlesSymmetry and asymmetry can be explored through balance design principle (symmetrical and asymmetrical balance). This new video from Principles of design (for developers) series will explain you what is symmetry and asymmetry, how to achieve it and create it in Expression Design. Have fun watching this video!

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Free video series “Principles of design: Emphasis”

Design principle: Emphasis (Image by Kandinsky)Emphasis is one of the design principles. It is also known as dominance, focal point or area in a room’s decor. This new video from Principles of design (for developers) series will explain you what is emphasis, how to achieve it and create it in Expression Design. Enjoy it!

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HOW TO: Use and add ribbon to your WPF applications? (Part 6)

This part explains how to add application menu (Jewl / Orb) into WPF ribbon control. I am explaining how to add list of recent files, menu commands (including SplitButton type and cascading menu structure), separator as well as Exit and Options button in the application menu footer part.

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UXPassion.com joins exclusive The Lounge advertising network

Today, UXPassion.com has joined The Lounge – an exclusive advertising network of trusted and respected publishers focused on Microsoft technologies. The Lounge serves over three million impressions a month on over 40 of the top .NET sites and blogs. And now, UXPassion.com is proud member of The Lounge.

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How to turn Bing background images off (and on, again)

How to turn Bing images off (and on, again)Sometime ago I’ve explained how to enable and show images on Live Search home page. Now when Live Search has gone and we are dealing with Bing, you have nice images every day by default – but how would you go and turn them off and on again? It’s not like I want to do that, but I thought it would be an interesting idea to share.

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Cool facts about Silverlight penetration / market share

Recently there has been an interesting discussion about Silverlight penetration and market share. As always, people tend to connect Flash and Silverlight and use the market share as a single most important metrics – but here, I’m sharing some really cool, interesting and surprising (?) facts about Silverlight market share.

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User experience (UX) guidelines for Windows, Dynamics NAV and AX

User experience (UX) guidelines for Windows, Dynamics NAV and AXUser experience guidelines (UX Guides) are very useful design guidelines. Though they will not teach you how to design great user experiences – they will help you design your applications and avoid common mistakes. I’m sharing UX guidelines for Windows, NAV 2009 and AX 2009 with you.

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Google vs Bing – compare search results

Google vs Bing - compare search resultsIt is not a secret – I am big fan of Bing and I am using it on daily basis now. As a Microsoft guy I’ve had a chance to test drive it while it was called Kumo – and now my friend Domagoj Pavlešić has created nice service allowing you to compare search results between Google and Bing.

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HOW TO Set or change Silverlight startup page or class?

I’ve been struggling for a while with this problem. I had Silverlight project with number of pages that I have designed and later I decided that I want to change to some other page to be the startup page when my projects starts. Solution is quite simple and neat so I wanted to share it with you.

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NASA & Microsoft Photosynth: Interactive 3D views of Space Station and new Mars rover

NASA & Microsoft Photosynth: Interactive 3D views of Space Station and new Mars roverNASA and Microsoft’s Virtual Earth team developed the online experience with hundreds of photographs and Microsoft’s  Photosynth. Using a click-and-drag interface, you can zoom in to see details of the space station’s modules and solar arrays or zoom out for a more global view.

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