Category Archives: Analysis & Design
Great User Interface: Read Users’ Mind
Ever looking up a word online and having to look up another word in the original word’s definition? Here are the steps to do it if you look up the word online. Go to dictionary.com Enter the word to look … Continue reading
Edit Post Screen (Variant II)
I thought of this during the long wait at In-n-Out drive-thru (yes, it was good). Utilizing the pivot control, I could place the writing area in one view and the auxiliary components (less used features) in another view. Which components … Continue reading
Edit Post Screen
I have the most basic Edit Post screen finished. No custom control implemented so far–want to stay with the native ones. I’m still not sure about the category selection–need to look around what other people do.
Text Guidelines for Windows Phone 7
A chapter in UI Design and Interaction Guide for Windows Phone 7 concerning text capitalization says that list items are to be displayed in lowercase. But the Design Templates released as Photoshop files and a Windows Phone app show list … Continue reading
Windows Phone 7 UI Guide and Design Templates
Microsoft released the UI Guide and Design Templates for Windows Phone 7 some time ago. The design templates contained several Photoshop files showcasing common user interface elements of Windows Phone.
Verbose WHERE Clause with LINQ to SQL
If you come from the world of always-use-stored-procedures or at least you always write your own SQL query, you’d be curious how LINQ to SQL translates your C# code to SQL query. Say you have table Persons with fields PersonId, … Continue reading
