Since Microsoft debuted the new Windows 8 "Metro" OS interface, there has been no end of people in the Microsoft dev space opining on both the interface and its applicability or lack of applicability. Not long after BUILD last year, one blogger…
“A sparkline is a small intense, simple, word-sized graphic with typographic resolution. Sparklines mean that graphics are no longer cartoonish special occasions with captions and boxes, but rather sparkline graphic can be everywhere a word or…
On Saturday, I gave a presentation at TECHBash about Windows 8 application design and development. The talk introduces the Metro Design principles and shows how to apply these principles to convert a desktop application into a Metro style app. Also…
In the previous post in this series, we went through the second of five principles that guide successful Windows Store application design, be fast and fluid. Today I would like to talk about the third principle: Authentically digital. This is by far…
In the previous post in the series, we went through the first of 5 principles that guide successful Windows Store application design. Today I would like to talk about the second principle: Be fast and fluid. If there is any one Microsoft design principle…
First of all, I would like thank all of you who attended the webinar today. There were a lot of really great questions asked and I hope I provided you with sufficient enough answers to all of them. I would like to apologize for the missing slides issue…
In Part 1 of the Microsoft Design Style Series, What is Microsoft Design Style?, I listed the five principles of the Microsoft design style and mentioned that later in the series I would go into them in detail. I promised you that they are not just marketing…
Update: It's "Microsoft design style".
I recently kicked off a post series entitled "Metro Design Series" which is going to cover a wide gamut of topics on Windows 8 and Windows Phone design. Unfortunately, it looks like I'm probably going…
In the previous post in this series, we went through the third of five principles that guide successful Windows Store application design, authentically digital. Today I would like to talk about the fourth principle: Do more with less. This principle…
This past Saturday, I had the opportunity to speak at Philly .NET Code Camp 2012.1 which was hosted at Penn State Abington. The title of my talk, officially, was the same as the talk at TechBASH. However, I’ve made a lot of changes to the presentation…
In order to truly understand something it is often important to understand where it originated. This is especially important when the subject at hand is design. Almost everything designed today has its roots somewhere in the past. The Microsoft design…