Category Archives: UI Development
It’s Showtime For User Experience
April 5, 2012As a family man, I don’t often get the opportunity to catch my type of movie on the big screen, but I was recently blessed with two such opportunities. Both films were blockbusters with all of the high budget features … More…
Building Spark Components in Flex 4+
June 28, 2011What follows is a consolidated guide to building custom components using the Flex Spark Architecture. Creating complex custom components in Flex can yield some very powerful results. The Spark architecture creates a separation between the component’s visual appearance and some … More…
Interface Design Wushu
February 18, 2011Among the many, many parallels between my development as an interface designer and Bruce Lee’s development as the creator of Jeet Kune Do is our understanding of and relation to the things that form the core of our respective disciplines. … More…
XAML Organization
December 8, 2010We’ve worked on countless WPF and Silverlight projects over the past several years and throughout that time, we’ve refined both our process and the organization of our solutions. We pass off front-end code to our client developers. So clean, understandable organization is extremely important for an effective transfer of knowledge.
Most of the development teams that we work with are well versed with c# code, programming methodologies, and best practices. But typically we find that XAML is not something that they care much about. Due to this lack of interest folks tend to not put much up-front thought into how their Resource Dictionaries are organized, nor is there much in the way of guidance from Microsoft. So then 3 months into their development cycle the application looks great from a code perspective, especially if the Model View ViewModel (MVVM) paradigm is followed, but digging into the various styles, templates, brush resources, etc… reveal a lot of problems. More…
Beginnings
December 5, 2010We’ve talked about having a blog for a while now and we’re happy to have it go live. projekt202 has a lot of brainpower and experience within our studio walls along with the call to share. You can expect to see topics ranging from research findings, to interaction challenges and techniques, to my favorite, front-end technologies and the UI development problems we solve.
So follow along on our journey. We hope you find some level of inspiration and insight into our areas of expertise. More…