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Phizzpop Design Challenge Austin
This past week, I had the privilege to be involved with the Phizzpop Design Challenge in Austin. I was called in by Chris Bernard as a technical mentor to the contestants who needed help and to help...
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Jared Spool re-convinces me that UX Matters
Jared Spool is one of my heroes. I go hear him speak every time that I get a chance to and have often retold a number of his stories with various clients. One of the first times that I heard him speak...
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UI Design for Developers Series, by Total Training.
I’m at an internal conference at Microsoft this week and one of the sessions that I attended was called Practical Design tips and tricks for Developers. It was a set of hands on labs that were created...
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Three Essential Expression Blend Add-ins
Expression Blend, believe or not, has an add-in model. It’s highly unsupported but it exists. The unsupported nature of it means that you have to do a little Red Green style patching to get them to...
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Glimmer – A jQuery Designer
I had heard about this effort a few weeks back but I’m thrilled that it’s public and I can talk about it now. Karsten Januszewski and some of the other whiz kids on the MIX team have put together a...
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Above the Fold and how It Really Should be Used
I’ve come to realize that many web designers don’t understand what “Above the Fold” and how it really should be used. Above the Fold is an old print newspaper layout term for what’s on the top part of...
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I was asked earlier when to use what Microsoft client Technology. I thought about just sending a link to Michael Schroeder’s post but decided I should put in my own thoughts on the matter first. At the...
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Voice Control with Amulet Devices
One of the things that gets me excited is working with new forms of user interaction. Or rather old forms of user interaction that humans use being used with our users. Amulet devices are doing just...
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Anyone can write games for Kinect with Scratch
That’s a bold statement but it’s true – any kid even can write games for Kinect with Scratch. Scratch is a programming language for kids out of the MIT Media Labs. Steven Howell saw the potential of...
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How People with Disabilities Use the Web
I was doing some research for a project and ran across this bit on the W3C website titled How People with Disabilities Use the Web. I love this section as it goes into something I’m really a fan of in...
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Microsoft UX Kit
Original post at Josh Holmes - dumpRandomThoughts() {. . .} Have you ever wondered what was possible with Silverlight, WPF or any of Microsoft’s User Experience (UX) technologies? Well, Christian...
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What does your user want?
Original post at Josh Holmes - dumpRandomThoughts() {. . .}I had my mind melted in a recent conversation with my friend Chris Dial. He said, “People don’t want 1/4 inch drill bits. They want 1/4 inch...
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Perception verses Reality
Original post at Josh Holmes - dumpRandomThoughts() {. . .}One of my first mentors, Denny Williford, told me a story. Over the years, I’ve retold this story dozens of times and I’m sure that some of...
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