XAML and UI, whever it is found. Phone, Surface, Silverlight or WPF
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 30th, 2009
Here’s another interesting data visualization idea. Take the Google news feed and generate a heat map. Click on an item in the heat map to read the news story. The application, named Newsmap, sports a number of filters, color codes the items by category (Technology is green) and uses color to signify the age of [...]
Posted in Silverlight, WPF on Jan 30th, 2009
When you need a spark to light your creative fire it sometimes helps to relax and look at something besides your current project. Peruse a design or architecture journal. Pull out your Clip Art DVDs and take a look. Most important, see what other designers are creating. I don’t mean to look at their work [...]
Posted in Silverlight on Jan 30th, 2009
One of my favorite features in WPF and Silverlight is the control template. You can make powerful changes to your UI via templates without effecting the implementation behind the UI. Since templates are saved in XAML files you can borrow other designers templates and apply to your UI. With their permission of course. Alex Knight [...]
Posted in Examples, Silverlight on Jan 30th, 2009
Our UI tools constantly grow more powerful. We collect massive amounts of data from countless sources. It is tempting to try and combine the heaps of data and show them in new and interesting ways. Pioneers in this field call this idea Data Visualization. Want some examples? Brain Scan Earthquake 3D The spread of obesity [...]
Posted in Silverlight on Jan 19th, 2009
There are a huge number of 3rd party tools for Flash Developers. This is a natural phenomenon when you have a successful platform with a large adoption in the marketplace. The same growth in prominent in the .NET tool space. Now that Silverlight 2 is alive and doing well we should expect to see more [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 15th, 2009
Which of these two web site designs do you prefer? The one on the left or the one on the right? What about the next two? Which has the better design? Voting chooses a winner It’s a simple idea really. Take screenshots of two candidates from a pool of submitted web sites. Show them [...]
