UX Passion - User experience, usability, IA, Silverlight and WPF tutorials and articles

Silverlight book: Silverlight 4 User Interface Cookbook

UXPassion.com — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:26:01 +0000

Are looking how to build great user interfaces using the Silverlight 4? Do you need professional UX guidance for that? What about step-by-step instructions with code when you need it? I'm introducing you Silverlight 4 User Interface Cookbook. This is my first book and I’m proud to announce it to you here on UXPassion.com

Free WPF ribbon control RTW now available for free download

UXPassion.com — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:52:35 +0000

It's been a while. But now, free WPF ribbon control is available as free download for all of you. And not – it's not a wrapper – it's a real deal – and it also come with application templates and design-time support for Expression Blend and Visual Studio. By popular demand – you can expect more WPF tutorials for ribbon control.

Wall of Tweets: design decisions behind popular twitter wall

UXPassion.com — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:50:23 +0000

Wall of Tweets is twitterwall product designed and developed by full service UX consultancy FatDUX Zagreb here in Croatia. It’s very popular and used throughout the world. In this article I’d like to share some design thinking, design research and decisions we’ve put behind this product and how it compares to other solutions on the market.

Best practices OR Best starting points in UX

UXPassion.com — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:45:33 +0000

Best practices are valuable in the UX field. However, often we use them without really giving it a thought and considering broader context. In this post our new guest blogger, Darko Čengija of FatDUX, talks about best practices and their relation with best staring points in the user experience (and other disciplines).

User interface design for beginners, intermediates or experts?

UXPassion.com — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:01:27 +0000

As a user experience designers we are regularly in situations where our design decisions will make significant effect on the end users of the web site, application or generally any user interface or service we design. Apart from the need to understand business case and idea – probably the most important is to understand who are users of our interfaces?

Silverlight 4 tutorial: HOW TO use PathListBox and Sample Data

UXPassion.com — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:37:51 +0000

Sample Data has been available to us from Expression Blend 3, but now with Blend 4, Silverlight 4 and Expression Blend 4 SDK there is new control – PathListBox enabling you to create list box looking however you want them to look – not just rectangular. This allows you to create nice radial, spiral and many other types of layout.

Eurovision / Eurosong 2010 Voting Analysis

UXPassion.com — Sun, 30 May 2010 13:30:28 +0000

Another Eurosong is behind us. This year, Germany was winner with Lena and her song Satellite. Again, interesting patterns have emerged during voting and some really interesting relations between countries can be described. Here’s the set of interesting voting infographics.

Developers, UX is not UI, learn that and stop trivializing!

UXPassion.com — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:07:03 +0000

Rarely passes a day when I don't get invitation to some product demonstration, technology showcase claiming to be a presentation about UX. In most cases - developers show new UI controls, tech, code and claim to be „talking about UX“. I say stop trivializing – and learn the facts!

Windows Phone development and design – ultimate guide

UXPassion.com — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 15:35:03 +0000

Windows Phone 7 is a brand new mobile platform from Microsoft introduced this year at MIX 10 conference. Since then different resources have been made available. Here, I'm gathering all you need to start designing and developing new mobile experiences. Go to Windows Phone 7 development and design ultimate guide.

.toolbox: Learn Silverlight, Expression Studio and UX design

UXPassion.com — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:39:11 +0000

Microsoft’s .toolbox website plans to teach you Silverlight, Expression Studio and UX design principles and fundamentals. You can choose from two available tracks (Design Scenarios and Design Principles), learn a lot, collect badges and brag about that. And you get all that in a nicely designed and packed website.

UX designer needed (full-time at Moody’s Wall Street Analytics)

UXPassion.com — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:09:51 +0000

Moody's Wall Street Analytics has asked us to help them find UX Designer for a full-time, salaried position. If San Francisco looks appealing to you, and even more importantly if you are great UX designer, looking for challenges in the financial sector – then this might be your dream job. Expression Studio skills are strongly preferred.

Design trends for 2010: Web design trends for 2010

UXPassion.com — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:02:04 +0000

From the visual and aesthetics aspect, web design trends in 2010 will be shaped by the influences from 2009. In this article 5 major trends regarding the web design are covered. From oversized headers which are serving as new kind of splash screens to minimalism which is being supported by typography. See what’s to come in 2010.

Design trends for 2010: Web development trends for 2010

UXPassion.com — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:21:11 +0000

Trends appear and disappear. Here are some of web development trends that will dominate during the 2010. I’m covering 5 trends regarding the web development. From real-time web and collaboration to geo-tagging and RIA frameworks... See what is new and coming in 2010 and stay ahead of the curve!

WPF / Silverlight tutorial: Visibility property and binding

UXPassion.com — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:05:19 +0000

Visibility property is a very powerful and yet often overlooked property available in both WPF and Silverlight. It enables you to set Visibility of certain UIElement objects to different states like: Visible, Collapsed and Hidden (not supported by Silverlight). This tutorial shows you how to use it and how to bind to Visibility property.

Google Chrome beats Apple’s Safari market share

UXPassion.com — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:02:55 +0000

More than a year and half ago, I wrote an article here on UXPassion.com saying that we don't need another hero – and I was referring to the Google Chrome browser. Today, after I've noticed news reporting that Chrome has surpassed Apple's Safari market share, I might need to reconsider my previous claims.

TOP 10 UX recommendations for Silverlight Command Link usage

UXPassion.com — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:15:44 +0000

After I've explained how to build and design custom control – Command Link for Silverlight, I'm now sharing some best UX practices and guidelines regarding the implementation of the Command Link control. Here is the list of best UX practices for design, implementation and usage of Command Link control for Silverlight.

Silverlight tutorial: HOW TO build CommandLink Control in Silverlight with Expression Blend 3 and Behaviors

UXPassion.com — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:24:19 +0000

Command links have found their way around in Windows Vista and they are one of the key parts of the Windows 7 user interface as well. In this article I’ll show you how to create a command link control in Expression Blend 3 for use in your Silverlight 3 projects.New concept introduced with Blend 3 - Behaviors is being used.

Microsoft’s product placements in The Big Bang Theory

UXPassion.com — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:27:19 +0000

I'm a huge fan of The Big Bang Theory show. Given a fact that I do have a geek / physicist background it hardly comes as a surprise. I’ve noticed number of different several Microsoft’s products being placed and mention on the show. First and foremost – number of different Microsoft Press books but even Windows 7 finds its way.