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My Slides: Microsoft UX: What Just Happened
I’ve been travelling around Australia in the past few weeks talking about Microsoft UX and essentially “What Just Happened”. I’ve uploaded my slides to slideshare.com (though they don’t animate, booo...
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FUI – Igniting the Fantasy User Interface spark.
Introduction Every single time I’ve been given a brief to design something, I often will browse the internet for inspiration, in that I just need something to help nudge me into the direction of an...
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Future UX showreels.
There is something important you must do, in that if you are a regular reader of my blog and often read my rants about how UX this and UX that, then you need to get to the core of why I exist in this...
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The principles of Microsoft Metro UI decoded
The phrase “authentically digital” makes me want to barf rainbow pixels. This was a quote pulled from a Windows Phone 7 reviewer when he first got a hold of the said phone. At first you could arguably...
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Going full Metro.
I uploaded one single Metro inspired design that I once did for Microsoft India/Asia and the next thing I know I’m being asked to do more for other clients. I shouldn’t complain, money is money and I’m...
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5 Things you ought to know when designing metro screens.
Having recently, gone full METRO lately, I have in turn created what I’d call my 5 things you ought to know going full metro list. Here are five (5) things you probably might want to know if you head...
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THELAB: User Story Management – think beyond cards.
As a Hybrid I want the ability to create user stories into clusters so that I can isolate ideas into more finite pieces. The Problem. Seeing that most are probably likely to ask what the heck I mean?...
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Decoding Windows 8 UX Principles– Let Context breathe instead of the UI!
Last night I was sitting in a child psychologist office watching my son undergo a whole heap of cognitive testing (given he has a rare condition called Trisomy 8 Mosaicism) and in that moment I had...
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Digital Skeuomorphism decoded.
There seems to be an undercurrent of contempt towards Digital Skeuomorphism – the art of taking real world subject material and dragging it kicking & screaming into your current UI design(s) (if...
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Inserting the UX into an existing Agile Project.
It is a Wednesday afternoon in Sydney North Ryde, humidity is quite hot and I am walking up a fairly steep hill panting and cursing to myself about getting to the gym sooner rather than later. I glance...
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