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 [...]
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 [...]
