Generally, most people don’t associate great design with Microsoft, but the company has been making great strides in this area for the past few years. I just found a link to the official Microsoft Design website through Jensen Harris this morning,...
The always-fantastic Coding Horror blog discusses Edward Tufte and his crusade for information density: These days, you rarely see screens packed densely with content and hundreds of links, but that's what Tufte seems to be asking for. We even ma...
Cider is the next-generation forms designer for creating Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly “Avalon”) user interfaces from within Visual Studio. Here are a few resources to get you started with it: MSDN TV: Introducing Cider - Mike Harsh...
Another oldie-but-goodie: BrandChannel.com (which I’m becoming addicted to) published an article back in 2004 about Detroit’s efforts to shed its “toothless and anarchic” image. Detroit had a significant opportunity to pull off an effective, widel...
I just read a blog post from Robert Scoble about Zillow, the super-hot real estate start-up based here in Seattle. Robert discusses Zillow underpricing his Bothell, WA house’s value by $30,000, and why it’s best to buy a house in Half Moon Bay dur...
