Silverlight book: Silverlight 4 User...
Silverlight book: Silverlight 4 User Interface Cookbook
Are looking how to build great user interfaces using the Silverlight 4? Do you need professional UX guidance for that? What about step-by-step instructions with code when you need it? I’m introducing you Silverlight 4 User Interface Cookbook. This is my first book and I’m proud to announce it to you here on UXPassion.com
Free WPF ribbon control RTW now available for free download
It’s been a while. But now, free WPF ribbon control is available as free download for all of you. And not – it’s not a wrapper – it’s a real deal – and it also come with application templates and design-time support for Expression Blend and Visual Studio. By popular demand – you can expect more WPF tutorials for ribbon control.
Wall of Tweets: design decisions behind popular twitter wall
Wall of Tweets is twitterwall product designed and developed by full service UX consultancy FatDUX Zagreb here in Croatia. It’s very popular and used throughout the world. In this article I’d like to share some design thinking, design research and decisions we’ve put behind this product and how it compares to other solutions on the market.
Best practices OR Best starting points in UX
Best practices are valuable in the UX field. However, often we use them without really giving it a thought and considering broader context. In this post our new guest blogger, Darko Čengija of FatDUX, talks about best practices and their relation with best staring points in the user experience (and other disciplines).
User interface design for beginners, intermediates or experts?
As a user experience designers we are regularly in situations where our design decisions will make significant effect on the end users of the web site, application or generally any user interface or service we design. Apart from the need to understand business case and idea – probably the most important is to understand who are users of our interfaces?
Silverlight 4 tutorial: HOW TO use PathListBox and Sample Data
Sample Data has been available to us from Expression Blend 3, but now with Blend 4, Silverlight 4 and Expression Blend 4 SDK there is new control – PathListBox enabling you to create list box looking however you want them to look – not just rectangular. This allows you to create nice radial, spiral and many other types of layout.
Eurovision / Eurosong 2010 Voting Analysis
Another Eurosong is behind us. This year, Germany was winner with Lena and her song Satellite. Again, interesting patterns have emerged during voting and some really interesting relations between countries can be described. Here’s the set of interesting voting infographics.
Developers, UX is not UI, learn that and stop trivializing!
Rarely passes a day when I don’t get invitation to some product demonstration, technology showcase claiming to be a presentation about UX. In most cases – developers show new UI controls, tech, code and claim to be „talking about UX“. I say stop trivializing – and learn the facts!
Windows Phone development and design – ultimate guide
Windows Phone 7 is a brand new mobile platform from Microsoft introduced this year at MIX 10 conference. Since then different resources have been made available. Here, I’m gathering all you need to start designing and developing new mobile experiences. Go to Windows Phone 7 development and design ultimate guide.
.toolbox: Learn Silverlight, Expression Studio and UX design
Microsoft’s .toolbox website plans to teach you Silverlight, Expression Studio and UX design principles and fundamentals. You can choose from two available tracks (Design Scenarios and Design Principles), learn a lot, collect badges and brag about that. And you get all that in a nicely designed and packed website.
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