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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...
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In my latest post of the UX Thoughts series, I’ve shown what I mean by the learning and productivity phase of the learning curve. So, let’s see what is expected from your software during these phases? In the learning phase , your users mostly want to discover and learn what the software is able to do...
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A lot of the posts in my UX Thoughts series are taken from my talk “User Experience in the Fourth Dimension”. In this one, I’ll try to explain what I mean by this term. The fourth dimension is time itself – I guess there is not much surprise here. So, while talking about UX in the fourth dimension, I...
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Infragistics has just released Quince – an amazing looking online tool for exploring hundreds of UX design patterns. Created in Silverlight, it seamlessly supports deep linking, back button, looks great and has tons of information that the community can extend. Great job, guys, this one will definitely...
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OK, so now that we know what I mean by UX and UI, let’s step back a little. What do users expect from a software? The short list is as follows: The software should: Help the user performing some task Teach the user Entertain the user Make something work, such as a washing machine or a space shuttle....
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After talking about User Experience, let’s see my definition of User Interface. Again, the approach I like best is: User Interface is the communication language between you and your computer . It is important to note, that UI is a bidirectional language. The software communicates the following to the...