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How to Create Attractive, User Friendly Applications?

June 13, 2011 – 12:58 pm | No Comment | 537 views
How to Create Attractive, User Friendly Applications?

In this article I like to share my mental model about UI / UX development. It is all about creating attractive, user friendly applications. But in order to do this you need to understand attraction …

bSix12 Explorer: The Making Of

September 25, 2010 – 10:20 am | No Comment | 17 views
bSix12 Explorer: The Making Of

The bSix12 Explorer allows you to browse through all available articles on this site in a way that is powerful, informative & fun. You can filter and sort the articles by category, tag or date.
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Live Labs Pivot: A great way to visualize massive amounts of data

September 25, 2010 – 6:30 am | No Comment | 237 views
Live Labs Pivot: A great way to visualize massive amounts of data

Pivot is a new technology developed by Microsoft Live Labs that makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data in ways that are powerful, informative, and fun.

Pivot is designed to provide a …

bSix12 Explorer: Navigate in a way that is powerful, informative & fun

September 20, 2010 – 2:24 pm | One Comment | 25 views
bSix12 Explorer: Navigate in a way that is powerful, informative & fun

I am very exited to introduce the new bSix12 Explorer!
The bSix12 Explorer allows you to browse through all available articles on this site in a way that is powerful, informative & fun. You can filter …

Seadragon / Deep Zoom Technology

September 17, 2010 – 3:57 pm | No Comment | 315 views
Seadragon / Deep Zoom Technology

Deep Zoom (aka Seadragon) provides the ability to interactively view high-resolution images.

You can zoom in and out of images rapidly without affecting the performance of your application. Deep Zoom enables smooth loading and panning …

Shu Ha Ri: The Stages of Learning to Mastery

January 29, 2010 – 1:35 pm | 2 Comments | 136 views
Shu Ha Ri: The Stages of Learning to Mastery

Recently I attended a presentation by Alistair Cockburn. He is one of the initiators of the agile movement in software development and one of the 17 authors of the Agile Manifesto. During his presentation he …