Tag Archives: UI

BETT 2010 in review

By Nick Harewood | January 17, 2010

I travelled back from London yesterday after a great couple of days at the BETT show.  Last year was the first time we’d really shown off any of our applications, demonstrating our Silverlight and SharePoint based VLE, but this year we were launching our new brand OPENHIVE and releasing our full suite of products to [...]

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iPhone 3Gs + Tweetie 2 + Twitter = Win

By Nick Harewood | October 24, 2009

Compelled to write this after having had an unexpectedly good user experience with all of the above last night.  The main thing is that it wasn’t each one in isolation, but the combination and how well they worked together that made it a good experience.
The fundamental elements of win…

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The future of Silverlight and HTML5 ?

By Nick Harewood | October 19, 2009

After speaking at Saturday’s Multipack event and catching Bruce Lawson’s HTML 5 talk for the second time in a couple of weeks, I had some time to ponder on my walk home through the city.
By the time HTML 5 is prevalent across all major browsers, say maybe up to two years away (and I suspect [...]

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“Implementing MVVM in Silverlight” – a UI perspective

By Nick Harewood | February 27, 2009

During the course of our current project we have been through a few iterations of our development process, with one goal being to find the best way for us Designers to work in Expression Blend on data driven controls.  There has been a bit of pain involved along the way and we’re yet to find [...]

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