Posts in Vista

16 posts in this category

Oct 14, 2006
Vista

When Good UI Goes Bad

Dave Vronay has a post up on shell revealed about features that didn’t quite make it into Windows Vista, like Mimesweeper, not-very-safe Delete and a TECO interpreter for the Start Menu: This was really a great feature, and it was nice to cater to...

Sep 25, 2006
Vista

Vista' New Start Menu

The Windows Vista love-in on my UI Design blog continues unabated! I was browsing through a surprisingly active thread on the Shell Revealed site about the design of the new Vista Start Menu. Not surprisingly, some people love the new Start menu, ...

Sep 24, 2006
Vista

Exposing Expose on Windows Vista

Simon on the (dot)Net released an awesome Vista utility (with source code, might I add), which duplicates the functionality of Apple’s Expose feature on OS X. It’s still a bit rough around the edges, but it’s an awesome example of what can be done...

Sep 23, 2006
Vista

Vista and Menus

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2006/september#thu-21-menu_bars_windowsAssuming you’ve used either Windows Vista or Office 12, you have probably noticed a distinct lack of menus (in the traditional sense, at least) in any of these applications. J...

Jul 24, 2006
Vista

Channel 9 Interview with Jenny Lam, the Windows Ux Poobah

This is an oldie, but a goodie. Jenny Lam, Creative Director for the Windows Ux organization, MSX, did an interview with Robert Scoble for Channel 9 a while back, where she chatted with him about “this whole Experience thing.” You can see the 40 ...

Jul 08, 2006
Vista

Aero Glass in Winforms Applications

Anyone reading this is probably aware of my, um, bias, towards Windows applications. With that in mind, Tim Sneath, a technical evangelist for the WPF stack in .NET FX 3.0 talks about how to add Aero Glass to the client region of a Windows Forms a...