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    The design principles of intuitive UI are dead

    It seems to me that intuitive UI went the way of the dodo with the advent of flat, minimalistic UI. Windows 8's Metro UI, Windows 10's Fluent design, Android's Material design, etc., are featureless and indistinct. The brain has spent its entire existence processing the visible world in three...
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    Polishing Your App with Animations and Audio Cues

    There are plenty of well-designed apps out there. Often what distinguishes a great Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app from a good one is the small touches, like animations and audio cues. This post will provide guidance on some of the subtle nuances that can help you take your app to the next...
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    Project Emoji: The complete redesign

    The world loves emoji. What a strange phenomenon, right? They’re a whole new language. Descriptive metaphors packed into magical little glyphs. This week, the Windows 10 Anniversary Update delivered a breadth of optimized features to Windows customers worldwide. Among them is a new emoji...
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    Designing for Intuitive Navigation

    In the past several posts, we have covered user interface (UI) design concepts such as typography, visual cues, and design thinking. In today’s blog, however, we will look at a topic that has much less to do with solving UI design problems and much more to do with solving user experience (UX)...
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    Last Week on Channel 9: May 4th - May 10th, 2015

    Conference season has finally caught up to our Channel 9 producers I think. Here are a select 13 videos from last week. Need more? Well remember you can view Ignite (http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015) and Build (Link Removed) on-demand now too... :) Link Removed Joe Stegman, Group...
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    Windows 8 Windows 8 Blogs: Building the Mail app

    The latest blog in this series tells of how the Mail metro app was conceived and designed... Link Removed
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    Windows 7 Computer security

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_security The technologies of computer security are based on Link Removed due to 404 Error. As security is not necessarily the primary goal of most computer applications, designing a program with security in mind often imposes restrictions on that program's...
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