Posts Tagged ‘UI’

Microsoft made a big splash with the unveiling of their long-awaited Surface Tablet yesterday.  Never mind the interesting choice of branding (anyone familiar with the previous Microsoft Surface will be surprised they took the name from the world’s coolest cocktail table and applied it to a slate), the big question in our secret mountaintop command […]

A comment was recently posted to one of my older blogs looking for more than text.  “Words, words, words,” the commentor said, quoting Shakespeare’s Hamlet– “Are there visual examples of SharePoint Designer done right?” As it happens, there are.  Of course, we need to be clear that not all SharePoint visuals are conceived through SharePoint Designer.  And […]

A colleague and I were discussing challenges in explaining what we do as user experience practitioners. He mentioned a shared pet peeve, the slashing together of UI/UX. I see this most often in job postings, but it appears in technology news, blogs, and even how some people describe their work. The concern that my colleague […]

Karen Bachman has a post out on our sister blog entitled, “UI Design Communication: General Approach and Tips for Axure”  It’s for anyone who has a dread of creating and/or reading design specs for front end systems (e.g . web sites or portals).  I love the idea of using a visualization tool to capture all […]

This past Thursday, I attended a Mobile Meetup hosted by Solstice Consulting and I felt it was very engaging and interactive. Many topics were covered ranging from mobile UX/UI to cross-platform development to marketing an application. The meetup was run in an Open Space Technology format. This enabled there to be many topics discussed in […]

A couple of projects ago my team created a SharePoint site with a background image that stays full size of the browser window. Recently I created it again with jQuery. To do it right takes a combination of jQuery, CSS, and HTML. To view my full working demo follow this link: View Demo | View […]