Design and Usability See What I Mean: How to Use Comics to Communicate Ideas – Written by Kevin Cheng, one of the authors of OK/Cancel, a usability comic. Recommended on Twitter by Bill Buxton Windows Phone Design Bootcamp 101 (Laura Foy, Jared Potter) – 4 videos on designing for Windows Phone Windows Phone MetroEEG: Midwave…
OK, Cory Doctorow, let’s see if this works.
I’ve recently written a chapter on storytelling and information visualization for O’Reilly media to publish in the book Beautiful Visualization.
And you can read it for free.
Thanks to Joe McBride and Jason Alderman, who discovered this technique in some of Microsoft’s theme packs. I’m trying something a little new… I’m going to post all future Silverlight tutorials on CodeRun, an online IDE. Basically, just follow the link below and click “Run” and you’ll see this in action. You can change the…
I was digging through all the sessions submitted for the MIX10 Open Call last week and I decided that there had to be a better way to browse through the data to find sessions that might be interesting. So I spent the weekend hacking together this Silverlight visualization of the MIX10 Open Call sessions. If…
UPDATE: I’ve made the source code available for download here. Yeah, yeah… I know it’s long past the time when anyone want to revisit the wonders of the 2008 presidential campaign, but the stars aligned for me to build this thing. Star #1: I’m been meaning to learn JSON forever because everyone is talking about…
I’d been holding out on this post in the interest of getting it just right. I think with more time I would add more stuff, but I stumbled across Scott Barnes’ post “I hate it when a designer touches XAML” and I knew that I need to get this posted. Here we have these fantastic…
UPDATE (12/05/08): Updated Color Picker Utility UPDATE: I’ve posted links to all my code here. I apologize, but I don’t have the time right now to go over how I made this, but I did want to take the time to show it off. (Sample removed because of incompatibility with current version, please visit the updated…