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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 » silverlight

Filed under: WPF, Silverlight, Design, UX, User Experience, UX / usability tutorials, biz, business, pricing

Expression Blend tutorial: Brushes, gradients, fills and strokes (webcast)
Tuesday, October 06, 2009 10:48 AM

This Expression Blend 3 tutorial introduces you to brushes and how to change the appearance of the specific object. You will learn how to use different types of brushes, and the special emphasis is given to gradient tools. How to create and modify gradients... Read More...

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

Filed under: WPF, Video, Silverlight, webcast, Blend, Design, Tutorial, Screencast, brushes, Expression Blend tutorials

Expression Studio 3 is now available free for Students on DreamSpark
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 1:26 PM

Expression Studio 3 is now available free for Students on DreamSpark!! Go download! http://dreamspark.com (thanks to Paolo Barone for the link). Read More... Read More...

by DavideZordan.net

Filed under: Design, Expression, Silverlight 3, Rich Internet Applications, UX - Design, Education

Pixel Lab Silverlight Site Launched
Friday, May 15, 2009 4:14 AM

Funny how your own site is always the lowest priority when your job is to create websites for other people. It’s like the auto mechanic with the broken down car. Well, last week (while I was on vacation with the family) I was finally able to sneak a couple... Read More...

by nerdplusart.com » Silverlight

Filed under: XAML, Silverlight, Design, code, lab, pixellab, site, pixel lab, swiss international style, pixel

MIX09 Workship is Online Now
Saturday, April 18, 2009 2:16 AM

I found out today that my MIX09 worskhop is now officially online. I won’t lie, it’s kind of long. The session is three hours of what I wish I had learned about design when I jumped on the design wagon train.  You’ll either want to do this one an... Read More...

by nerdplusart.com » Silverlight

Filed under: Silverlight, Design, Life

Best MIX Keynote Yet
Thursday, March 19, 2009 7:23 PM

My hats of to Microsoft today for putting on a truly inspiring keynote. Deborah Adler shared her story of redesigning the little orange prescription medication pill bottles that we’ve been using for the last 50 years.  I love that story and I had... Read More...

by nerdplusart.com » Silverlight

Filed under: Silverlight, Design, MIX09, deborah, adler

Kaxaml Swag
Thursday, February 12, 2009 6:22 PM

With MIX quickly approaching, it’s time for the (soon-to-become) annual tradition of producing some Kaxaml swag. Last year I made buttons (the kind you might pin to your backpack). This year, I’m faced with a choice about what to make. Well, since the... Read More...

by nerdplusart.com » Silverlight

Filed under: XAML, Silverlight, Design, Uncategorized, MIX09, code, Life, kaxaml, swag, content, haiku

Live Messenger - Login Screen UI
Friday, March 28, 2008 12:41 AM

2 days ago I set myself 1 simple task, to build the UI for the Login screen of windows Live messenger! 1 day later I was done! Equipped with the knowledge gained from my control skinning adventures I set out on creating the UI as best I could pixel for... Read More...

by Online Advertising, Web Development & General Rantings

Filed under: Blend, Design

How to create a spiral xAML asset
Monday, March 24, 2008 11:07 PM

This is going to be a simple post BUT I thought I'd share it because I have been racking my brain for so long working out how to do something like this in pure xAML. [Thanks to Germain from over at the expression forums for showing me how to do this]... Read More...

by Jose Fajardo

Filed under: Design

How to make a spiral xaml asset with Design
Monday, March 24, 2008 10:34 PM

This is going to be a simple post BUT I thought I’d share it because I have been racking my brain for so long trying to work out how to do something like this in pure xAML. This shows why design is just as important to the UX toolset as blend is... Read More...

by Online Advertising, Web Development & General Rantings

Filed under: Silverlight, Blend, Design, Technology

Silverlight Rectangles, Paths and Line Comparison
Friday, January 04, 2008 2:53 AM

More than half a year ago Dave Campbell , Luis Abreu and I had a discussion about the 1px line width problem in Silverlight and WPF . A short summary of the problem when drawing lines with 1px and using an anti-alias effect: The example above is built... Read More...

by Michael's Blog : Silverlight

Filed under: WPF/E, WPF, Silverlight, WPFE, UI, Design

Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 Wish List (part 2)
Friday, December 21, 2007 9:11 AM

I got a lot of feedback for my last post about Silverlight features that are currently missing . Because it is Christmas time we are allowed to wish everything we want, what we get is another thing. Here are some additional features currently missing... Read More...

by Michael's Blog : Silverlight

Filed under: WPF/E, WPF, ASP.NET, .NET, Silverlight, Media, WPFE, AJAX, Design, Controls, Mobile

Expression Studio in German
Thursday, June 14, 2007 5:37 AM

The German trial versions of Microsoft Expression Studio are now available. The full versions will be available in about 6 weeks, Expression Web is already available. Expression Blend (Windows, 180 days) Expression Media (Windows/Mac, 60 days) Expression... Read More...

by Michael's Blog : Silverlight

Filed under: WPF/E, WPF, Silverlight, Media, WPFE, Blend, Expression Studio, Design