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Evolution of Windows Explorer
Tue, Aug 30 2011 3:05 PM

Nice post of Steven Sinofsky on MSDN blogs about the history and future of Windows Explorer. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/08/29/improvements-in-windows-explorer.aspx (edit 31-08-2011) And Martin Tirion of Microsoft Netherlands wrote about it a day later (in Dutch). http://blogs.microsoft.nl/blogs/ux/archive/2011/08/30/windows-explorer-in-windows-8... Read More...

by Andries van der Meulen | with no comments

Filed under: User Experience Design, Microsoft, Design, Windows 7, Ribbon, Windows 8

Silverlight Resize Drag Behavior for targeted UIElements
Wed, Apr 21 2010 1:19 AM

I have been searching for a Silverlight behavior where you have the ability to resize a column. Normally you can do such a thing with a GridSplitter onto a grid with several columns. Unfortunately this doesn’t work when you also wants to implement something like a hide and show menu column. Therefore I created this behavior myself and released it on CodePlex... Read More...

by Andries van der Meulen | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: Practical UX, Blend, Design, Personal Experience, Behavior, CodePlex, Silverlight, ResizeDragBehavior

The Ten Commandments of User Experience
Tue, Mar 30 2010 2:23 PM

1st commandment The user is always right You are not the user. Neither is your boss   2nd commandment Understand the User   3th commandment Avoid Solutioneering Identify & fully understand problems before finding solutions   4th commandment Form follows function Form must play within the general realm of the familiar for easily understood functions... Read More...

by Andries van der Meulen | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Development, User Experience Design, Design tenets, Design

In Control
Tue, Nov 10 2009 8:55 AM

What I realize more and more is that the end-users wants to be In Control . This applies especially with new developed applications that automates some of their work. By default users are skeptic. The application have to earn their trust. The more they get the feeling they are not in control, the less trust and the less acceptance of your newly developed product... Read More...

by Andries van der Meulen | with no comments

Filed under: Development, User Experience Design, Application Lifecycle Management, Practical UX, Project management, Design, Personal Experience

A plea to my developer brethren about designer/designers
Tue, Oct 20 2009 12:40 PM

This post of Tim Heuer is something I completely agree with! So if you’re a developer and you work with designers, you do need to read this…   Since we appear to be in another revolution on user interface (UI) design and user experience (UX), I’ve seen a lot of people, companies, sites refer to the designer-developer workflow, including Microsoft. ... Read More...

by Andries van der Meulen | with no comments

Filed under: Development, User Experience Design, MIX, Design

Expression Blend not for Designers, but for Integrators
Wed, Jul 1 2009 10:26 AM

Last Friday I was at the SDN Event in Houten , where I followed several UX tracks, and spoke with the speakers afterwards. I was trying to find out how they worked with Designers and Developers and the technique’s Silverlight and WPF. And almost everybody agreed (except Kevin McNeish for some reason) on how to let these two groups cooperate. You will need someone... Read More...

by Andries van der Meulen | 6 comment(s)

Filed under: Development, Microsoft, Blend, SDN, Design