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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

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

OS Desktop Experience
Thu, Oct 8 2009 7:58 AM

The other day I was talking about how exactly the transition will be when switching from mouse/keyboard to touch when it comes to the User Experience. For example your operating system desktop. And then I came across this promotional video of BumpTop.com . Really nice! Desktops are very personal, so I really don’t expect that the majority will use this. But it... Read More...

by Andries van der Meulen | with no comments

Filed under: Practical UX, Personal Experience, Touch, BumpTop

Working Through Screen
Tue, Apr 14 2009 8:22 AM

A while ago, a colleague gave me a link to a free book called “Working through screens” by FlashBulb Interaction . It is a wonderful document about how you can increase User Experience for your application. I can really advise people to take some time and read this. It may seem like a big document, but it did gave me a lot of new and usable insights... Read More...

by Andries van der Meulen | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: User Experience Design, Practical UX, FlashBulb, Working Through Screen, PDF

Good User Experience 101
Tue, Feb 17 2009 1:13 PM

This week I will give some basic practical tips and information when trying to create a good User Experience for your application. You can elevate this to the level required for the project, but on this post I want to keep it basic. If you remember the following guidelines, you will create a better user experience. Pretend to be the application user Maybe you... Read More...

by Andries van der Meulen | with no comments

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