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Less than two weeks from now, the Baltic TechDay 2011 conference will be happening in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - and I am honored of being a speaker to all three conferences, as per the invitation of Microsoft. Three days, three cities, three countries – and a total of six airplane takeoffs and...
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Today, SurfCube has been honored with a Microsoft Innovation Award in Smartphone Application category! SurfCube is a revolutionary web browser for Windows Phone 7, with an innovative and exciting 3D User Interface. It is not just full of features, such as Orientation Lock, Bandwidth Saver, Twitter Sharing...
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If I say the next few weeks are going to be exciting, that is a huge understatement. Like saying the Empire State is kinda big. If you are following me on Twitter , you probably know that me and my friend, Bálint Orosz have been voted to present at Mix’11. This is quite an achievement – there were 200...
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Windows Phone 7 users can customize their phones by choosing between a dark and a light background, and tons of accent colors. The Windows Phone 7 UI Design and Interaction Guide tells us, that it is good to be theme-aware. For example, if the user selects a light background with red accent color, the...
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Summary: this blog post details the design decisions and some technical information behind the Windows Phone 7 Mix Zoomery app. Some of you may have heard of Zoomery, which is the Deep Zoom framework of my company ( Response ). Some of you may have even seen our Mix Zoomery demo , which allows browsing...
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The second part of my screencast series “Transforming an Ugly Duckling into a Graceful Swan With Expression Blend and Silverlight - Part 2 Intro Animation” is now online at SilverlightShow.net. In this part, I am going to add some bling to the app – namely the Intro animation, the ability to skip it...
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I have begun new series of screencasts on SilverlightShow.net. Here is the expert: “As I promised earlier on Silverlight Show, this screencast series will show how to create the showcase application shown on www.response.hu (you may want to read the interview to get some background information on the...
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John Papa asked me (and other Silverlight MVPs) what was the one BIG thing we did around Silverlight in 2009. Here is what I had to say: As a few of you may know, although I have technical background, I am really in love with Silverlight (and WPF) for the user experience it makes possible. I think my...
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In my last post in the UX thoughts series , I wrote about how allowing the user to experiment and being consistent with the already existing knowledge of the user can help learning to use your software. Reusing existing applications If we are taking the consistency thing a bit further, the next step...
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In my last post , I’ve made the point that traditional user manuals, help files are not too effective to get your users acquainted with your software. So, let’s see what else can we do? Let them play A lot of users like to play with their new software and discover its features by looking through menus...
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In my not so last post about user experience, we discussed the different requirements between the learning and the productivity phase of the learning curve. Let’s have a look at what tools we can use to help our users learn how and why our software works, and get them to the productivity phase...
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Our very ambitious Silverlight Deep Zoom project, Zoomery has received Microsoft Hungary’s Innovation Award 2009 yesterday. This is the second time that we have won this award (the first application was featured in the Architecture Journal case study “ Support Technicians on the Road ”...
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I’ve just read an amazing article at the A List Apart site, called In defense of eye candy . A lot of my feelings and thoughts that I have been struggling to put in words are expressed here in a crystal clear way. The article discusses the role of aesthetics in the cognitive process, cites studies that...
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I’ve been asked whether it is time to invest in WPF and Silverlight. What is the future of these platforms? Are they here to stay? Should a LOB development company invest time and energy in learning them? I think the answer is yes. Of course that is my biased opinion as these are the two technologies...
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Last week I was in Seattle, for the annual MVP Global Summit. It was my first Summit, and my first time in the U.S., so I got to experience both the country and the Summit feeling for the first time. And I had an amazingly great and illuminating experience. This blog post will be a little bit less technology...