Announcing: Blend 3 with Sketchflow
One of the main issues of prototyping or even trying to do wireframes for an app or site is the lack of tools around. I’ve come across some really nice online tools, but in my experience, most people...
View ArticleGestalt is here
The MIX team have been quite busy little bees this past while. Today they’ve launched a new feature – Gestalt Gestalt.js is a library that allows you to write Ruby, Python & XAML code in your...
View ArticleUser Experience Design & Design Thinking in Business (SA UX Forum)
Venue: University of Johannesburg, FADA Building Auditorium 18th August 2009 Starts: 6.00pm (drinks will be provided) Please RSVP as soon as possible by emailing phillip [at] jh-01.com Keynote...
View ArticleWindows 7 RTM available!
Windows 7 RTM is available for download to MSDN subscribers as of tomorrow, 6th August. Considering the rest of the world will have to wait until sometime in October, this is awesome news for those on...
View ArticleWeb 3.0 for dummies
Finding a clear definition for what Web 3.0 actually is, can be pretty hard work. Whilst trawling for data I came across this presentation by Freek Bijl. He presents the story with beautiful simplicity...
View ArticleA “Flasher’s” take on Silverlight
Besides the question: “When is Windows 7 arriving?”, which is luckily for us – later this month – the next most asked question thrown out is “But why Silverlight? I’m already happy with Flash”. Apart...
View ArticleSharePoint for Web BootCamp
I presented a session at the recent SharePoint for Web BootCamp at the Joburg Microsoft offices, with Michael O’Donovan. The 1.5hr session looks at UX and web101 to give some content as to why sexy UI...
View ArticleInvite to Connect
I know quite a few of you are upset that we didn’t get to run MIX Essentials this year – huge apologies. We are however, running Microsoft CONNECT in Joburg on 12th November at the Venue at Melrose...
View ArticleA “Flasher’s” take on Silverlight: Part II
I recently put up a post regarding how the team at BigSpaceship had developed one of the Victoria’s Secret sites in Silverlight. The blogged a pretty spectacular post on Flash vs Silverlight in that...
View ArticleA burn
On the 2 March 2012 we were in Arniston for a friend’s 40th birthday. At the party, in completely bizarre circumstances, I caught alight. This was written two weeks after the incident. Realizing that...
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