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Edward Tufte, master presenter, author and information design visionary will be in Atlanta on March 24th and 25th . If you haven't seen him, register here . You also get all four of his books included in the price. I'll be here and if I can go, possibly
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I thought I'd put together a list of predictions for MIX 08. Some could happen, some will happen and some could not happen, you decide! Steve Ballmer gives Keynote in black turtleneck and jeans. IE 8 demo IE 8 uses the "Office Ribbon" toolbar. Popfly
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Over at the ISV Developer Evangelism blog, jpelak posted about a couple of preview SilverLight control toolsets, that are now available. They're from ComponentOne ( the Sapphire toolkit ) and InterSoft ( the WebAqua toolkit ). Both are beautiful and usable,
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And win... The good people over at Lab49 (New York's finest WPF consultancy) have a contest focused on using WPF in finance. I've long felt that WPF is a perfect match for the financial market, due to the rich visualization needs and the shear amount
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Found via UX magazine ... Flare, "ActionScript 3 (Flash) libraries for interactive visualizations on the web". Here's a cool toolset for interactive visualizations using Flash, check out the demo reel for some cool stuff. I like the "Star Burst" view,
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Graphics can really tie things together in a way that words can't sometimes. Check out this graphic about becoming a fan via Church of the Customer. Sean
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If you work with data (and we all, do both designers and developers). You'll to head over and check out the Graph Design I.Q. test . Any fan of Edward Tufte will score a "10" on this fun departure. If you're a developer this should help you think about
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Being a fan of Tufte , I'm always interested in Data Visualization. I feel one of the best presenters of data is nature. We see fractals in cauliflower, tree structures in trees and many other complex concepts presented in nature. Take a look at a couple
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Surface presents some interesting problems with UI. One is how do you handle large scale datasets? For example, my digital camera has a 4 gig SD card for storage, which can hold about 1200 photos, what happens when 1200 photos "spill" out onto the surface?
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Over at Long Zheng's site , he's got a video of the good people over at Microsoft Research Cambridge demoing a tablet version of Microsoft Surface . In the video you'll see Steve Hodges demo the functionality and how they did it. With Jeff Han's work,
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I see the day (soon) when all of these applications that we see on TV and in movies are going to be made with WPF. Until then, check out the guy that creates all of these. His name is Mark Coleran, and man does he have talent. Found by way of Information
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It's great to see all of the announcements about multi - touch computer interaction and surface computing these days. How we interact with devices is only going to become more and more interesting. Of course, that also means that how we interact with
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Here's the base concept. Code coming next. If you can't see the verbiage on the right view this in my photos .
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Here's a cool video of a multi-touch panel display desktop from Microsoft. It's got some interesting data viz and concepts. There's two panels, one translucent and the other about a 40 inch panel. Check out the video . Hmm, I wonder if they used WPF
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