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Jul 26, 2006
Windows

Microsoft Design?

Generally, most people don’t associate great design with Microsoft, but the company has been making great strides in this area for the past few years. I just found a link to the official Microsoft Design website through Jensen Harris this morning,...

Jul 26, 2006
Accessibility

What' Eating WCAG 2?

Joe Clark, author of Building Accessible Websites (which needs a cover less-reminiscent of a certain web meme, in my opinion), wrote an impassioned tirade against the perceived uselessness of the W3C’s WCAG 2 guidelines back in May. Joe makes a lo...

Jul 25, 2006
WPF

Introducing Cider - Next-Gen UI Layout

Cider is the next-generation forms designer for creating Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly “Avalon”) user interfaces from within Visual Studio. Here are a few resources to get you started with it: MSDN TV: Introducing Cider - Mike Harsh...

Jul 24, 2006
Branding

Brand, Identity, and Snarky Commentary

I just stumbled across the Identityworks website, by way of Digg. Although I’ve never seen Identityworks before, it’s rapidly becoming a new favorite. Dating all the way back 1998, the site catalogues brand and logo changes from across the Fortune...

Jul 24, 2006
Vista

Channel 9 Interview with Jenny Lam, the Windows Ux Poobah

This is an oldie, but a goodie. Jenny Lam, Creative Director for the Windows Ux organization, MSX, did an interview with Robert Scoble for Channel 9 a while back, where she chatted with him about “this whole Experience thing.” You can see the 40 ...