I’m happy to FINALLY announce the first NUI (Natural User Interface) Camp on April 24th and will be held in Reston Virginia. This is the first of a series of NUI developer & designer events targeted to getting you real, hands-on experience learning and competing with other teams all in a full day of nothing [...]
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Simple Prototyping: PowerPoint and SketchFlow
In chatting with customers, often times I see all types of quick ways to prototype application UIs – everything from white boarding, napkin sketches and the most favorite I’ve seen to date…PowerPoint.
Well one of the lesser known features that’s included in Blend 3’s SketchFlow, is basic PowerPoint import.
Let me show you how easy it is.
Take [...]
NUI Camp Coming….
Don’t just learn about the latest Natural User Interface technologies from Microsoft, give em a try with our full day developer/designer hands on competition. From designing to prototyping to building apps, this packed competitive day will team up designers with developers, creating a series of RIA apps, all in a day, and all to be [...]
Free Preview: Dynamic Prototyping with SketchFlow in Expression Blend
Dynamic Prototyping with SketchFlow in Expression Blend is a book coming out in late 2009 through Que Publishing and is being written by Chris Bernard and Sara Summers. It will teach you everything you need to know to create rich and dynamic prototypes using SketchFlow in Expression Blend.
Check it out…good stuff if you want [...]
Silverlight 3 Launched Today!
Exciting day – Silverlight 3 was launched today, as well as Expression Studio 3!
With Silverlight version 3, the feature list delivers innovation and benefits to key areas of rich internet applications, including:
Support for true high definition video
Out-of-browser functionality
Smooth Streaming
Improved line of business support, including data validation and element-to-element databinding
Pixel shaders for deeper rendering control
More than [...]
Jelly Charting Controls in Silverlight
I’m currently working with a highly visible government customer and they were really interested in using Silverlight for data visualization. They specifically came across the cool “jelly charts” Richard Zadorozny created a while back in Silverlight 1.0, which have some really cool visual effects displaying and easing data.
Perfect. We should be able to just pipe in data [...]
User Experience Matters
I have 7 red, half-gallon gas cans sitting in my garage right now.
Why? Let me tell you why. Pride.
It was about 7:30pm on a Friday evening in Dallas, Texas when my wife and I were heading to a concert with some friends. We were cruising down 635 in our black 1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee [...]
New Blog…New James.
Ok, so it’s been waaaaaaaaay too long since I’ve blogged last. And I actually have an excuse.
Work.
Yeah, I’ve been heads down working on this project with my team called the Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI). This is a very cool project, while not in itself is the breakthrough RIA of the year – it can [...]
