Windows 8 and Windows Phone Guidance for Visual and UX Designers
At least once a week I craft an email to an agency or developer or designer who has asked for design support for Windows or Windows Phone. At Microsoft, our approach changes as our platforms mature and grow. Earlier in…
Reasons.to – Opening Titles 2013
I was lucky to open the second day of Reasons To Be Creative this year in Brighton. One of the themes of the conference that I love is the opening titles which always have a great deal of effort put…
Windows 8 Training Camp
I’m not sure what market these are being show in, not sure its even in real languages based on the comments on YouTube, but I think they’re funny – don’t know if there’s any more in the series but I…
Designing the Future of the Intelligent Car: User Experience
I love my cars, I love the changes in their interfaces over the years from the very analogue and symmetrical view in my 1972 Mini, the space age Citroen GS, the cartoonified G-wiz through to my current BMW stable of…
Content before Chrome and on-demand UI
‘Take advantage of the screen real estate’. That’s a common saying that was bandied around when working on the web in the early days. As screen resolutions increased we (collective we – designers, developers – the makers of the internet)…
Designing your Share Charm experience on Windows 8
Every web page, app, café and even individual cans of drink now provide you with the ability to ‘share’ your current experience. Tell your friends on Facebook that you’re in a castle in Wales exploring the medieval dungeon (I did…
“I hearby exercise my right to skate.” Gnarly action from Ed Bacon.
I heard this story on a podcast from 99% Invisible whilst driving, and I must admit, it brought a tear to my eye. Ed Bacon (yes, actually Kevin Bacon’s dad) is the architect who conceived Philadelphia’s Love Park (aka JFK…
Self-driving hover car. Really.
The only thing I like more than a flying car is one that can drive itself. This film goes some way to explaining how this might be possible. And it’s in English.
Dutch Bank note design
In this 5 minute film, you can get some lovely insight into the mind of Dutch graphic designer and banknote designer Robert Deodaat Emile (Ootje) Oxenaar (we’ll call him Bob from now on). Incredible to think how he managed to…
Your Team Is Going To Absolutely Love This
I enjoy the little details in software that make you smile, especially when that smile comes from somewhere as unexpected as source control software. I’ve been using the online version of Team Foundation Server for a while and there’s a…