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App-centric vs doc-centric. Consumption vs Creation?

By Malcolm ⋅ April 1, 2010 ⋅ 9 comments

Sorry, this is a bit of a rambling post, but partly I’m organising my thoughts after reading this article. The basic premise is that we’re heading towards a world of two different types of operating system: a Document-centric OS for “Professionals” and an App-centric OS for everyone else. Not sure I agree on the [...]

Using WPF for good and not evil #ux

By Malcolm ⋅ March 1, 2010 ⋅ One comment

Quite an interesting UX examination of the Family.Show WPF Sample App by David Platt. I especially liked his summary of his 3 Programming Principles: “Users don’t care about your program in and of itself. Never have, never will. Your mother might, because you wrote it and she loves you, and then again she might not; [...]

Printed User Experience books free to read online #ux

By Malcolm ⋅ December 31, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Thought this might be of interest to others. I’ve been considering buying Designing Interfaces by Jennifer Tidwell, but some of the Amazon reviews left me unsure and Amazon’s “Look Inside” didn’t show me anything actually useful. Fortunately, I stumbled across the very book, as well as half a dozen others, available to read online here. [...]

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