23 April 2010
By James
In NUI, UX
If you haven’t seen it yet, NUI Camp is tomorrow. In Reston, VA. And it’s FREE.
If you’re a designer or developer and want to learn more about Natural User Interfaces by actually building them – don’t miss out. Drop by www.nuicamp.net to register.
James
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14 April 2010
By James
In NUI, UX
I recently met with Joshua Blake from InfoStrat, and he showed me some cool stuff around NUI concepts and how we as designers and developers really need to change the way we think around interface design, especially moving towards Natural User Interfaces (NUIs).
Microsoft Surface is a prime example of how natural user interfaces can [...]
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13 April 2010
By James
In Expression, Silverlight, UX, WPF
I ran across this resource a couple weeks back, but wanted to share with everyone as these are FREE assets for building multi-touch wireframes.
Gesturecons is a set of wire-framing gestural icons created by Ryan Lee. The icons are available for download made available via a Creative Commons License.
These icons will be very useful when [...]
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13 April 2010
By James
In UX, WPF
For those of you who want to get your hands on some cool ways to build a NUI, today the Surface Toolkit was announced and is now available. Check out the video below and download the bits!!!
Download the SDK:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=801907a7-b2dd-4e63-9ff3-8a2e63932a74
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09 April 2010
By James
In NUI, UX
If you haven’t seen this, it’ll blow your mind on the future of gaming, specific to design.
Xbox 360 Games – E3 2010 – Guitar Hero 5
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08 April 2010
By James
In Expression, NUI, Silverlight, UX
I really wanted to let everyone know about this phenomenal resource that was launched during MIX10 this year….called .toolbox.
So what is it and why should you care?
Here’s the creator’s brief description:
.toolbox is a free online training program from Microsoft for designers and developers that focuses on the design and UX aspects of Silverlight using Expression [...]
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