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Enforce Design Guidelines With Styles And Behaviors

Often times, the design for an interface calls for guidelines that cannot be sufficiently controlled...

Date: 04/30/2010

Transitions, Animations, and Effects with Blend - Part One

Recently, I was invited to speak at a Portland Silverlight user group meeting about designing great...

Date: 04/19/2010

Windows System Color Theme for Silverlight - Part Three

The Windows system color theme for Silverlight now includes styles for all toolkit controls except...

Date: 04/11/2010

Silverlight 4 Notification Window Class

Tim Heuer has a great blog post on the new NotificationWindow class for Silverlight 4 Out-Of-Browser...

Date: 12/08/2009

Windows System Color Theme for Silverlight - Part Two

The SDK controls are now themed in the Windows system color theme style, and the Toolkit controls...

Date: 12/01/2009

Windows System Color Theme for Silverlight

Accessibility is important to consider when designing applications. Not only do those with visual,...

Date: 11/23/2009

Silverlight 3 Application Themes

Before I dive into the Silverlight 3 application themes, I would like to mention some research that...

Date: 08/30/2009

Props to Two Cool Silverlight Applications

Props to Colaab and SchoolMaster; two nice looking Silverlight applications with very compelling...

Date: 03/27/2009

Rough Skin for Silverlight Beta 2 Is Easy to Customize

One thing that I forgot to mention about the Silverlight beta 2 rough skin is that it is very easy...

Date: 08/05/2008

Rough Skin Updated for Silverlight Beta 2

I finished updating the rough skin to beta 2. If you would like to use this skin feel free to...

Date: 08/04/2008

Previous Post's Application Using Live Data Services

All of the code for the sample application described in my previous post is updated and working in...

Date: 07/23/2008

Bubbly Skin Updated for Beta 2

I finally had a bit of free time to update the bubbly skin to beta 2. If you would like to use this...

Date: 07/19/2008

New Visual Design For My Blog

As a user experience designer, the visual design of content I produce is an important consideration....

Date: 04/29/2008

A New Set of Control Skins

One more set of control skins is up and ready for you to use. I had hoped to have two ready, but one...

Date: 03/23/2008

Hooking Data up to ListBox and Datagrid

This is a walkthrough of how to hook data up to both ListBox and Datagrid. In this walkthrough,...

Date: 03/16/2008

Silverlight 2 Control Skins

Last week, Silverlight 2 beta one was the hot topic at the Mix 08 conference that took place in Las...

Date: 03/10/2008