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Microsoft Office and SQL Azure

By kbnotes : 18 June 2011 - 03:22 AM
At the recent Microsoft Tech Days / United Kingdom 2011, Andrew Couch, MVP, and author of the forthcoming Microsoft Access 2010 VBA Programming Inside Out, presented a session titled, "Microsoft ...
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How to Streamline Your Brand for Your Mobile Site

By chco : 25 February 2011 - 08:15 AM
When designing a mobile version of your website it can be helpful to streamline the branding elements from your main website. The following excerpt from Designing Interfaces, Second Edition offers sev...
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XML: The halfway point between design and programming

By macslocum : 18 October 2010 - 05:35 AM
The luxury of being just a designer or just a programmer is largely a relic days long gone. It's now common for designers to tab out of the Adobe suite and pop the hood on code, and programmers need a...
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Using Interface Metaphors to Improve Your iPhone App Design

By joshclark : 27 September 2010 - 01:37 PM
Just as spoken metaphors provide expressive shortcuts in language (your husband is a peach, my computer is a dog, our boss is a monster), graphical interfaces use visual metaphors to quickly explain t...
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How to Include Search in Your iPhone App Design

By joshclark : 30 August 2010 - 10:30 AM
The final ribbon of standard interface chrome is the seek-and-you-shall-find search bar. If your app manages or accesses big collections of info, your audience will clamor for a way to search it. The ...
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How to Make Use of the Tab Bar in Your iPhone App

By joshclark : 09 August 2010 - 01:56 PM
The tab bar is a dock of buttons anchored at screen bottom, giving your audience a menu of options to choose from. The result is a tidily categorized app, with its primary features explicitly listed a...
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How to Design a Unique Visual Identity for Your iPhone App -- Vote for Your Favorite Tips

By joshclark : 18 June 2010 - 09:24 AM
My new O’Reilly book about iPhone user experience—Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps—hits bookshelves in the next few days (the ebook is already available). I thought it’d be fun to share ...
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Preferred iPad Orientation?

Asked by m_reese : 12 April 2010 - 09:01 AM

Answered by macslocum : Apr 12 2010 09:45 AM
I almost always go with landscape. Part of that is from the keyboard -- I find typing in landscape mode to be much easier -- and part of it is due to the case I purchased, which flips over nicely in l... full answer >
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Elements of Interaction

By adfm : 31 March 2010 - 02:14 PM
As our notion of interface leaves the boundary of the desktop it's a good idea to be prepared. This excerpt from Peter Morville & Jerrery Callender's Search Patterns encourages us to engage the elem...
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Sliding and Fading Elements in and out of View with jQuery

By adfm : 09 February 2010 - 03:49 PM
DHTML effects used to be painful to implement, but these days they're standard practice. You can add the visual cues to your layout that really make it snap by by taking advantage of effects available...
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