Welcome to the Kitchen

Our favorite web, UI and UX conference site has grown up.  It's no longer just a site about the best conference out there, MIX.  It's now a site for discussion, learning, ideas, projects and yes MIX still gets some love.  MIX has a new URL which is more inline with the conference.  It's ...

Art, whether it's music, visual or another of our senses, art creates a connection to the experience.   Why do we disregard it in our software so often?   Here's something for you to enjoy. Solar, with lyrics. from flight404 on Vimeo.

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 we could have a meetup with Professor Tufte ...

  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 version 2.0, now with DLR SilverLight 2.0 Expression Design running on a ...

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 of data.  So here's your chance to take their data and build something ...

The Flare API distortion Fisheye X View.

One of the Flare Views.

  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 how to present data (especially when you boss asks you ...

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 of photos I pulled when I looked for ''pasture'' on Flickr. When dealing ...

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?  Could you imagine having to manually move around 1200 photos?  ...