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 [...]
Gesturecons – FREE icons for prototyping Multi-touch applications
13 Apr![main_3[1]](http://okayjames.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/main_31-576x96.png "main_3[1]")
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 [...]
Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch Now Available
13 Apr
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
"Design Outside the Box" Presentation
09 Apr
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
FREE UX Training – .toolbox
08 AprI 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 [...]
First NUI Camp Announced
23 MarI’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 [...]
Simple Prototyping: PowerPoint and SketchFlow
08 DecIn 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 [...]
NUI Camp Coming….
02 NovDon’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
13 JulDynamic 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!
11 JulExciting 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 [...]
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