The Metro Design Language

A couple years ago the Windows Phone design team realized that the design path that Windows Mobile was on was not sustainable and decided start afresh.

When given the chance for a fresh start, the …

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 …

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

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

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 …

Project Natal

Project Natal is the code name for a new technology developed by Microsoft to allow advanced gesture recognition, facial recognition, and voice recognition. It is the base for a "controller-free gaming and entertainment experience" for …