User Experience Design - All Comments

re: Silverlight Resize Drag Behavior for targeted UIElements

Samuel Jack — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:40:53 GMT

Just what I needed. Thanks!

I've used this in RavenDb Studio's Silverlight UI.

re: Storing and retrieving WPF RibbonWindow settings (including the usercustomizable QuickAccessToolbar)

Andries van der Meulen — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:37:34 GMT

@leo

You probably have a DelegateCommand<T> bound to one of the RibbonButtons's Command property.

Unfortunatly, the XamlWriter cannot serialize generics.

The only way I can think of at the moment is to replace the DelegateCommand with an own ICommand class.

That way when loading the application, the Deserializer can instantiate your command.

re: Storing and retrieving WPF RibbonWindow settings (including the usercustomizable QuickAccessToolbar)

leo — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:03:40 GMT

Hi Andries, Thanks for sharing the solution, but i keep getting err "cannot serialize a generic type DelegateCommand" at XamlWriter.Save(buttons); And found it's related to QuickAccessToolBarId property. However, just cannot solve it, and don't know what i'm missing. Could you please help?

re: Storing and retrieving WPF RibbonWindow settings (including the usercustomizable QuickAccessToolbar)

John Hagan — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 13:08:51 GMT

Great article on persisting WPF RibbonWindow settings--the very best explanation and examples. Thank you so much for taking the time to share it.

For what it's worth, I don't believe the [Serializable] is necessary (or applicable) when using XamlWriter to serialize data.

(WINDOWS 7) what function does ctrl+alt+A (Alt Gr+A) have?

Copious-Systems — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:22:40 GMT

Someone referenced this post to answer question "(WINDOWS 7) what function does ctrl+alt+A (Alt Gr+A) have?"...

re: Home Server µTorrent IIS Web Access Client

joueur poker — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:34:30 GMT

Thanks great infos as always !

re: Silverlight Resize Drag Behavior for targeted UIElements

Dan F — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:38:17 GMT

Very nice. I've been hunting for a DockPanelSplitter or a DockSplitter for a while now, your ResizeDragBehavior fits the bill perfectly. Thanks Andries!

re: The Ten Commandments of User Experience

Nick Finck — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:14:39 GMT

Glad you liked the talk and slides.

2009.02.25

The .NET Aficionado — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:05:51 GMT

2009.02.25

Amy M. Weber — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:34:01 GMT

Thanks about this information. Torrent is a big help to us in downloading some applications. It is very useful to me! Thanks.

re: Home Server µTorrent IIS Web Access Client

Matthijs Krempel — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:31:54 GMT

Very phat!

re: Working Through Screen - Now in print on demand

Jacob Burghardt — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:41:13 GMT

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Thank you for your interest!

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re: From Windows Mobile to iPhone

Andries van der Meulen — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:12:21 GMT

@Rich Lofton

For someone refering to iPhonesucks.com it's obvious you don't like this device. Well, that's just to bad.

My post is a comparison with the Windows Mobile device I used before. For me it was (and is) a huge improvement. Everything you've mentioned is absolutly true, but then again, I don't bother, because apparently I don't use/need this features. (Allright, iTunes suck, I agree on that!)

For the record, I'm not a Macintosh employee. I actually work as a User Experience Specialist in our Microsoft devision.

re: From Windows Mobile to iPhone

RICH LOFTON — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:57:20 GMT

Your full of poppycock. You must be a Macintosh employee or technically challenged because this is what you conveniently forgot to mention.

1. you can't save attachments from website or emails other than pic's or pdf's which are all thrown into your photo file

2. there is no removable storage

3. there is no bluetooth sync

4. the battery is horrible and you can't swap batteries or add an extended life battery

5. safari doesn't support flash so you can't stream anything without an approved app, ie you tube

6. you can't edit or attach word or excel documents

7. you can't attach mulitple pic's or pdf's to an email

8. you can't run multiple applications at the same time - i'm sure dos from 91' even supports that

9. you can't access storage space on local drive

10. you have to go to app store for apps of websites that are just mobile versions of a website

11. you have to use iTunes

12. you can bareley have a conversation with someone since the speaker and micorophone suck

13. you can't customize your sync and all your folders with outlook

14. you can't customize your phone by placing different apps in different folders - so you have pages upon pages of apps to sort through

15. you can't edit how the phone uses onboard resources

I could go on and on but I think you get the point. The iPhone does have a nice touchscreen and it is sleek and great for technically challenged hipsters but it is not a phone that an everday technical businessman will embrace. I've even jailbreaked my iPhone to help with customizing and still wasn't able to accomplish what I could with my tiny screened Motorola Q9h. The iPhone reminds me of what AOL users thought the internet was back in the 90's.

re: Expression Blend not for Designers, but for Integrators

grrd — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:05:12 GMT

i am an experienced Graphic Designer.

and i am struggling so much to learn Blend. To me it seems that Blend requires a special kind of mathematical-logical thinking... which i don't really have. It seems to have been totally built around developers' needs/built around the code. From a design perspective it seems totally counter-intuitive.

Have been at this for 6 months now and i feel like i am totally stuck.

i would be lost with our "integrator".

not sure how long i can handle this anymore.

p.s. this comes from a person who had zero problem slearning Flash (including ActionScript)

thanks for listening.