Modern User Interface Design Tools – Part 1: Design Marries Development
This series of blog articles deals with the use of GUI development tools by designers and developers, with a particular focus on Microsoft Expression Blend and Adobe Flex Builder. In the first part, I...
View ArticleModern User Interface Design Tools – Part 2: Graphical Approach of GUI Design...
In the first part of this series I described how user interface design tools bring together developers and designers in a seamless workflow and gave an overview of the technical environments of Adobe’s...
View ArticleResolution Independent Icon Design – Part 4: Modern Tool Support
The previous part of this series outlined why it is not possible to just create one single vector-based instance of an icon to scale it to any desired size. This part raises the question, on the one...
View ArticleModern User Interface Design Tools – Part 3: Expression Blend vs. Flex Builder
In the previous part I took a closer look at how and to what extent Microsoft Expression Blend and Adobe Flex Builder offer pixel-graphics and vector-graphics tools to enable GUI designers to create...
View ArticleResurrecting User Interface Prototypes (Without Creating Zombies) – Part 1:...
Every user interface designer is familiar with the procedure to some extent: To find out what a user interface needs to look and behave like it’s certainly a good idea to create a prototype and...
View ArticleWPF Performance – How It Matters on the User Interface
No doubt, when creating software, there is always one topic that everybody talks about: performance. In this respect, even though Windows tries to hide a lot of performance optimization work from the...
View ArticleIntroducing WPF – Experiences of a former Windows Forms developer
Have you ever thought about switching from Windows Forms (WinForms) to WPF seriously? Try something new and stop to develop along the old well known patterns? To be honest until a few months ago, I...
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