Galaxy S4 And The Quest For The Perfect Retina Display Tobias Komischke / Mon, Mar 18, 2013 The new Samsung Galaxy S4 has some nice features: Hover state. This is made possible through the phone recognizing the proximity of your finger towards the screen surface. This is not new, Sony’s...
First Impression of BlackBerry 10’s New Design Miao Wang / Thu, Jan 3, 2013 Besides the big release of Microsoft Windows 8 OS , another potential hit at the beginning of 2013 must be BlackBerry 10 . With glimpses at some of their key features from developer previews, I've tried...
AVG’s new Windows 8 style UI (formerly known as Metro). Tobias Komischke / Wed, Sep 19, 2012 AVG is an anti-virus software. In anticipation of the upcoming Windows 8, they’ve just modernized their UI to look like Windows 8 style UI – what was formerly known as Metro. It used to look like...
More proof that UX matters Marshal Datkowitz / Thu, Jun 21, 2012 I found this article in the New York Times that highlights the detrimental effect of bad user interfaces on the user experience and as a consequence on the rating of Ford. Executive summary: • In...
How to Create XAML WinRT Components for Windows 8 Metro Applications [Infragistics] Mihail Mateev / Fri, Mar 23, 2012 Metro applications have an innovative new interface and a component-based architecture. Many developers created components for XAML-related technologies like Silverlight / WPF and developers of jQuery...
Multi-Touch Simulation and Multi-Touch Behaviors for Windows Phone 7 [Infragistics] Mihail Mateev / Wed, Dec 29, 2010 When developing applications for Window Phone 7 is essential to realize the simulation of the Multi-Touch Activity for the applications. Currently, most computers do not have Multi-Touch Screens. One...
My Dr. Dobbs article on multi-touch, multi-user, gesture-based design [Infragistics] Joel Eden / Mon, Apr 27, 2009 A few weeks ago Dr. Dobbs published a pretty lengthy (and informative) article of mine titled “Designing for Multi-Touch, Multi-User, and Gesture-Based Systems.” In my opinion, it’s very easy to...