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On the Web, competition is just one click away (JustHost is our new host)
Monday, November 02, 2009 4:31 PM

This is a post about customer service, customer frustration and customer / user experience. I've made a move from my old webhost Inside.hr to JustHost.com. Reason? Well, I was frustrated with their „customer service“. After careful consideration, I’ve... Read More...

by UX Passion - Things about user experience, usability, IA, SEO, tutorials, blogging and Microsoft

Filed under: UX, web, Featured Articles, UX / usability tutorials, user experience, web host, service management, customer support, customer service

Design pricing: It’s never just about the price
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 5:22 PM

Setting proper pricing for your UX design work is crucial. It goes hand in hand with setting your customer's expectations. Set the price too low and you will gain reputation of the same kind. Set it high – you will also set high expectations. If you can... Read More...

by UX Passion - Things about user experience, usability, IA, SEO, tutorials, blogging and Microsoft

Filed under: Business, WPF, silverlight, UX, Design, UX / usability tutorials, biz, user experience, pricing

UX ROI: User Experience Return on Investment
Saturday, October 10, 2009 3:58 PM

Calculating and even trying to understand what all adds up to the UX ROI is difficult task. When we are faced with clients and investors – ROI is something they often ask for. How to even start thinking about return on investment in the field of user... Read More...

by UX Passion - Things about user experience, usability, IA, SEO, tutorials, blogging and Microsoft

Filed under: Business, WPF, silverlight, UX, Featured Articles, UX / usability tutorials, usability, roi, biz, return on investment, user experience

Make complete button surface active and enhance usability
Wednesday, July 08, 2009 4:19 PM

Buttons are everywhere – both on web and on desktop applications. Being so widespread and known to end-users they should be as usable as possible. However, there are lot of mistakes when designing buttons and they kill the usability. One of the biggest... Read More...

by UX Passion - Things about user experience, usability, IA, SEO, tutorials, blogging and Microsoft

Filed under: UX, web, facebook, UX / usability tutorials, myspace, desktop, usability, analysis, buttons

Image reflection effect in WPF with Expression Blend – Tutorial
Friday, July 03, 2009 9:32 PM

It is easy to create reflection effect in WPF using the Expression Blend – and in this tutorial I will show you how to achieve WPF / XAML reflection effect. Number of different controls can be used for this effect – images, controls like buttons or even... Read More...

by UX Passion - Things about user experience, usability, IA, SEO, tutorials, blogging and Microsoft

Filed under: WPF, UX, Expression Blend, XAML, Silverlight / WPF tutorials, Expression Blend tutorials, ui

SketchFlow – Designing in Expression Blend
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 4:00 AM

Shown for the first time publicly today at Mix 2009 in Las Vegas, SketchFlow is a fun, informal, flexible, quick and powerful way to sketch and prototype rich, dynamic interactivity with Expression Blend. SketchFlow is part of Expression Blend - I’ll... Read More...

by electric beach

Filed under: WPF, expression, silverlight, UX, Design, blend, prototype, sketch

Visual State Manager: Goals
Tuesday, June 03, 2008 11:41 AM

Our goal for Silverlight 2 was to provide a control skinning model that is imminently usable for visual designers, providing an easy entry ramp, yet with sufficient power for sophisticated application skins. Our design goals did include: Make sure that... Read More...

by electric beach

Filed under: WPF, expression, silverlight, UX, blend, VSM, Skinning

Creating Control Skins with Visual State Manager - An Introduction
Tuesday, June 03, 2008 10:00 AM

Styling dynamic visuals, or “skinning”, is an important task for visual designers working on interactive applications for web and desktops. With Beta 2 of Silverlight, and the associated June preview of Expression Blend, we are making this... Read More...

by electric beach

Filed under: WPF, expression, silverlight, UX, blend, VSM, Skinning

User Experience: Ahead, an Exciting Journey
Monday, May 05, 2008 2:23 AM

The supported vocabulary of user experience has been surprisingly stable over the last two decades. I believe that over the next 10 years we will experience a more exciting journey. “Supported vocabulary” in the first sentence of this post... Read More...

by electric beach

Filed under: UX, 3D, Graphics, interaction, design patterns, motion

Video Table: A Concept Study
Monday, May 05, 2008 2:10 AM

In the Mix 2007 keynote, Metalliq demonstrated a video editing application under the somewhat unexpected name Top Banana. This application was based on Video Table, the outcome of a few days of casual experimentation in 2006. This post gives a short description... Read More...

by electric beach

Filed under: Mix, UX, prototype, light table, concept study, video editing

An Interview from Mix 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008 10:59 AM

At Mix 08, zoom in online interviewed me about Microsoft Expression and user experience. There is also an interview with Eric Zocher, the General Manager of the Expression Group. Regards, Christian Schormann Read More... Read More...

by electric beach

Filed under: expression, Mix, UX

Software Branding
Saturday, March 17, 2007 11:00 AM

I was pleased to see the updated Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines introduce a section on Software Branding . I firmly believe the secret sauce behind every successful software application is the emotional chord it strikes in the end user. Too... Read More...

by Even a chimp can write code

Filed under: WPF, WPF/E, windows vista, Windows Presentation Foundation, Branding, UX, Design