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 ...

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 ...

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, (remember that UX is not just about looks) and would be at home ...

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 ...

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, I have a similar WPF control called ''Sunburst'' in the works for ...

The Flare API distortion Fisheye X View.

One of the Flare Views.

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

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 ...