Microsoft Office User Interface Demo

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Try out the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface with this interactive demo. In this demo you'll use the Ribbon, Contextual Tabs, Galleries, and Live Preview to quickly and easily get professional results in Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook. You’ll also see side-by-side comparisons with previous versions of the applications that shows how much easier it is to get things done with the Office Fluent user interface.

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Apple iMac Ad

After I saw Apple new iMac ad, I thought why the Mighty Mouse is on the right side? Usually it's on the left side, right? What Apple designers were thinking? After a while I realized why? Tell me which of these two pictures look better to you or let’s say which one is basically more obvious and usable for a 30 seconds ad!

However I would have done it like this. Everything is clear!

No offense, just a idea! Apple has the best designers in the world.

What do you think about my idea?

Microsoft Surface

Apple vs. Microsoft

Did you get it?

Blue Eye

The Blue Eye table has a glass surface and overhead camera, a projector and a mirror underneath the table. By placing an object on the table surface you can copy it to the screen beneath. Once the image of the object is imported, “images can then easily be moved, stretched and even animated by a user.”

This table is similar to the upright Microsoft TouchLight technology which lets users move and manipulate three-dimensional images with their hands. We also posted about the iBar interactive bar table, which is geared more towards design and pleasure, letting users create patterns of glowing light when touched. The DeLightTable by Thomas Gardner, an ‘interactive coffee table’, is also similair to the iBar interactive table.

Also visit: Perceptive Pixel interactive touch UI

CES 2007 - LG VX-9400

FireFox

Why twice?

Look at this image! Any idea why there is two Force Quit, Restart, Shut Down or Log Out in Apple menu?

Visual Web Design

Have the ability of visually editing any webpage on the Internet. It's fun to try on various websites and it somehow looks original.

1. Open any website (like apple.com)

2. Paste the following code in the address bar and hit Enter

Code:

javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0

3. Start editing & enjoy your time

4. How do you like that now?

5. Send a Printscreen Image to that website's webmnaster

GET FIREFOX

Apple iPhone Ad

Vista + Mac OS X

Beryl 0.2.0 beta plugin and feature showcase

Microsoft Expression Session 2007

I had the pleasure of attending the last session of three Microsoft Expression Session events in New York City on January 30. Well for those who don’t know, the Expression suite consists of four products: Design, Blend, Web, and Media. The event took place at 7 WTC on 51st floor that as you see it has a great view over New York City.

The morning session was essentially an overview of the suite by the product managers from Microsoft. They showed some impressive demos including a Burton Snowboards WPF application create by Beau Amber from Metalliq. It was interesting to see someone else from the Flash community working in WPF.

Expression Web (the Dreamweaver competitor), which was just released, is the professional version of MS Front Page with lot more feature. The UI for the application looked very neat, straightforward, flexible and useful. The visual CSS editing was particularly advance and impressive, that as a default it appears on the right side of the application. The best feature I think was attributes panel on the left side. Basically each time you click on any HTML tag/object it gives you list of that tag/object attributes. I remember it was a very useful feature on Visual Basic and VB.Net. They gave me a free copy of Expression Web ($79 Value) and I'm installing it now, and I'll try to post more detailed comments about it later. But I still like my Dreamweaver more.

The beta version of Expression Blend (their Flash competitor) that they showed us was still somehow incomplete. By the way their both MacBook Pro with Windows Vista crashed during the rendering. Beau Amber was so embarrassed. Anway the UI looked overloaded and confusing. Actually I guess the wanted to copy the UI of After Effect 7 (for Mac) but the couldn’t. Anyway I had hard time with it.

I will post my comment on Expression Media and Design later. By the way I had the pleasure of talking to Jeff King and CSS legend Eric Meyer. They really did a great speech. However I missed Chris Bernard speech because I was listing to Beau Ambur. I was there from 9am to 6pm and in general it was a great event.