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I stole this phrase from a comment by ch00kz on the Bend text editor project on CodePlex . I think this is something very solid to build upon. I am very big on aesthetics and this program does catch my eye and it makes me "Want" to use it. Here...
Went back to my last blog (on http://rrelyea.spaces.live.com/blog ) to look at other entries in my Software Should series. Resizable dialogs are important, especially when you have any scrollbars Software should adapt to the size/aspect ratio that the...
Just ran into another piece of software that triggered one of my pet peeve’s. Was installing Evernote since Rudi Grobler ’s “Week of <XAML />” day 0 talk listed it as the 1st WPF example app. The setup program’s last page includes a checkbox which...
During WPF’s first version (v3, of course) we considered building a porting tool to enable WinForms developers to easily migrate to WPF. We didn’t build that migration tool because: We thought that the UI paradigm changes didn’t deserve a simple port...
I spent another 30 minutes with Seesmic Look now, and I wrote down issues I found with the UI. Learn more (or install): http://seesmic.com/seesmic_desktop/look/ As I mentioned as a tweet ( http://twitter.com/rrelyea/statuses/8035779666 ) Bunch of nits...
On blogs.WindowsClient.net , I saw a link to Andrej Tozon’s blog about the PhotoSuru install experience . Read his post. Try the install experience of PhotoSuru . User experience is more than just the app runtime…it is the app lifecycle.