ux musings
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