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bSix12 Logo Evolution
Today I created the first logo for this site and I am pretty sure it will change a couple of times in future. So I thought it would be nice to keep a history of those changes: V0.1: Generated Logo My...
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The World’s First Computer Bug!
Ever wondered why a computer bug is called a “computer bug”? I was quite amazed to find out that the term can be understood quite literally: According to the National Museum of American History: In...
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UI Platforms: Which One Would You Pick?
With technologies like Ajax, Flex, JavaFX, Silverlight and WPF the borders between rich desktop applications and rich Internet applications are blurring more and more. Today the possibilities to...
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Designing the ULTIMATE Twitter Client
I am working on a Twitter Client right now. But I am not working on some Twitter Client – I am working on the ULTIMATE Twitter Client! Right? Well sort of… however we need to define what “ULTIMATE”...
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SharedMinds Desktop – Quickstart
If you are new to Twitter or if you do not have an account yet read the following article to get started: How to Use Twitter By now you should have a basic understanding of Twitter and a valid account....
View ArticleThe Story of the Office Ribbon
You may love or hate the new Office Ribbon user interface. Microsoft was very brave to dramatically change the user interface for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Co. It means that more than half a billion...
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SharedMinds Desktop – The Ultimate Twitter Client for Windows
With SharedMinds Desktop you can browse though all your tweets quickly and show links, user profiles and twitter search results right there in the same application. This will make you more productive...
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Shu Ha Ri: The Stages of Learning to Mastery
Recently I attended a presentation by Alistair Cockburn. He is one of the initiators of the agile movement in software development and one of the 17 authors of the Agile Manifesto. During his...
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Seadragon / Deep Zoom Technology
Deep Zoom (aka Seadragon) provides the ability to interactively view high-resolution images. You can zoom in and out of images rapidly without affecting the performance of your application. Deep Zoom...
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bSix12 Explorer: Navigate in a way that is powerful, informative & fun
I am very exited to introduce the new bSix12 Explorer! The bSix12 Explorer allows you to browse through all available articles on this site in a way that is powerful, informative & fun. You can...
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Live Labs Pivot: A great way to visualize massive amounts of data
Pivot is a new technology developed by Microsoft Live Labs that makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data in ways that are powerful, informative, and fun. Pivot is designed to provide a...
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bSix12 Explorer: The Making Of
The bSix12 Explorer allows you to browse through all available articles on this site in a way that is powerful, informative & fun. You can filter and sort the articles by category, tag or date....
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How to Create Attractive, User Friendly Applications?
In this article I like to share my mental model about UI / UX development. It is all about creating attractive, user friendly applications. But in order to do this you need to understand attraction in...
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The Metro Design Language
A couple years ago the Windows Phone design team realized that the design path that Windows Mobile was on was not sustainable and decided start afresh. When given the chance for a fresh start, the...
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User Experience vs. User Interface
It is quite common for people, even inside software development teams to use the acronyms UX and UI as synonyms, but they are quite different. UX stands for “User Experience” while UI stands for “User...
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The ROI of User Experience
In this short animated video Dr. Susan Weinschenk demonstrates how user centered design results in significant return on investment (ROI): Watch this video on YouTube Transcript: User experience is the...
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Google Blockly – A Visual Programming Language
Google Blockly is a visual programming language that allows you to easily combine blocks of logic and functionally. Look at the Maze Demo to get an impression how it works (Note: It currently runs in...
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