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• 03.15.08
  Lo-Fi or Hi-Fi mockups? Blend Resource Dictionaries mean not having to choose Expression Blend, Prototyping | (0)

  I was taught to avoid high-fidelity mockups for as long as possible. But there is an important role for high-fidelity mockups as well. If only we could have both... I've just finished reading "Design Vision" by Luke Wroblewski, Dirk Knemeyer, Bob Baxley, and Jim Leftwich. (I make it a policy never to be more than two years behind in my work reading.) Quite a few points got my attention, including a discussion of the important role of high-fidelity (even pixel-perfect) mockups in the design phase. But I was taught to keep my mockups lo-fi as long as possible. ...
• 03.02.08
  Shanemo and DelicateGenius do ‘Artists in Residence’ Expression Blend, Prototyping, Silverlight | (0)

  For the last week Kordesy and I have been at the Microsofties' version of 'Artists in Residence' at Microsoft in Redmond. The idea of Artists in Residence is to give a developer/designer pair the chance to get some training and mentoring from experts while they work on a Silverlight project together over the course of a week. After some to-ing anf fro-ing we came up with an idea to use Silverlight to add interactive 'depth' to a traditional portal site. Check out the video to see how we went. Watch the first half to get the big picture, ...
• 01.05.08
  Wireframing in Silverlight 1.0 Expression Blend, Interaction Design, Prototyping, Silverlight, Usability testing | (0)

  If you are a designer working on a Silverlight 1.0 project, or if you are working with designers, check out the video by Arturo Toledo entitled "Workflow of Silverlight with Expression and Visual Studio from the recent "Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter" event in the US. Arturo talks about wireframing in Expression Blend and emphasises the importance of establishing a naming convention as early as possible. Wireframes Interaction designers typically create wireframes for user interfaces to represent the high-level interaction design - before visual design is applied. Typically, these wireframes are static, and created with drawing tools ...

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