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New Rules for Good UI Design: Rules, Tips and Tricks for Designing an Enjoyable Software Experience

Topics
CodeMash 2012,
CodeMash,
Design,
UX,
User Interface,
Conferences

Joe Nuxoll provides rules, tips and tricks for creating a great user interface that can improve the user experience.

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A Look at MonoTouch.Dialog

Topics
MonoTouch,
iOS,
Mono,
.NET,
Mobile,
Operating Systems,
iPhone,
iPad,
Programming,
User Interface

MonoTouch.Dialog is a UI development toolkit designed to dramatically reduce the amount of boilerplate code needed to create application screens for the iPhone and iPad. Through the creative use of attributes, screens are dynamically built from class definitions. Alternately they can be programmatically created or loaded from a JSON document.

The Future of UI/UX in Agile

Topics
Team Collaboration,
Distributed Team,
Collaboration,
Lean Startup,
Teamwork,
Scrum,
Business,
Lean,
Design,
Agile,
User Interface,
Usability,
User Experience,
UX

Many people who are new to Agile are confused about the place of UI and UX design on Agile teams. Previously many teams have tried keeping the work separate from the team or having the work done one sprint ahead. Recently, there has been more talk about welcoming UI and UX into Agile teams and Lean UX has been at the forefront.

InfoQ’s First Minor UI Update in 5 years – feedback?

Topics
Usability,
User Interface,
User Experience,
InfoQ Announcements,
Announcements

On behalf of the InfoQ team, we are happy to announce our underwhelming first minor UI re-launch in our 5 year history. This re-launch is the first in a set of incremental changes that will end with a homepage re-launch later in the year, with your feedback. This first launch maintains the same look and feel but removes the left bar while expanding the header and footer.

Capture the Application, not just the Screenshot with VS Lab Management

Topics
Virtualization,
.NET,
Infrastructure,
IaaS,
Programming,
Cloud Computing,
Visual Studio Lab Management,
User Interface,
UI Testing,
Testing

Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 is a highly integrated virtualization, development, and testing tool. When testers encounter an error they can create a snapshot of the virtual environment at that moment: not just a screenshot, but the current state of the application or website and all the servers involved.

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FlexMonkey brings unit testing to Flex user interface developers

Topics
Flash Builder,
Flash 10,
ActionScript,
Flex,
Java,
Web Frameworks,
Continuous Integration,
Eclipse,
Flash,
Adobe,
Languages,
Web 2.0,
Unit Testing,
Agile Techniques,
Software Testing,
WOA,
Testing,
Rich Internet Apps,
Programming,
Architecture,
Companies,
Enterprise Architecture,
TDD,
Rich Client / Desktop,
Ant,
User Interface,
Adobe Integrated Runtime,
Agile

This article explores how Gorilla Logic's new, open source Flex user interface automation testing tool, FlexMonkey, can enhance the productivity of both developers and QA testers. FlexMonkey allows developers to incorporate user interface testing into unit test suites and continuous integration environments, and allows QA testers to expand those tests into comprehensive quality tests.

Using SketchFlow to Create Better Prototypes

Topics
Customers & Requirements,
Artifacts & Tools,
Tools,
Microsoft,
Project Management,
Architecture,
Agile,
User Interface,
Design,
Companies,
Prototype

All good developers use some kind of prototyping as a communication channel to customers. Simon Guest of Microsoft introduces a new technology from Microsoft, SketchFlow, and shows how it could be useful to developers as well as the primary audience of designers. The discussion covers coverage (WPF and Silverlight), functionality, workflow, prototyping, and documentation.

Presentations about User Interface

UI in an Agile Process - The Quick 'n' Dirty Approach in the Real World

Topics
GOTO 2011,
Sprint,
iOS,
Scrum,
Android,
GOTO Conference,
UX,
Agile,
Mobile,
User Experience,
Conferences,
User Interface,
Operating Systems

Janne Jul Jensen presents the development process of a mobile banking application from prototyping to the actual product including SCRUM sessions, sprint evaluations, UI designing, and user feedback.

3 Mobile App Development Problems and Ways to Solve Them

Topics
MonoTouch,
iOS,
Mono,
.NET,
Operating Systems,
Monospace,
Programming,
Mobile,
User Interface

Frank Krueger discusses 3 mobile application development problems: failing network connection, multiple UIs, and bugs, presenting strategies for solving them.

Modeling the User Interface

Topics
User Interface,
Design,
Model Driven Engineering,
Modeling,
UX,
Code Generation,
Code Generation 2011

Pedro J. Molina discusses the concepts behind UI and challenges met trying to model user interfaces, and how code generation can be used to create UIs.

Developing JavaScript Desktop Applications

Topics
HTML 5,
HTML5,
Javascript,
Ruby,
HTML,
Rich Internet Apps,
Markup Languages,
Web Development,
Dynamic Languages,
Languages,
Programming,
Rich Client / Desktop,
Architecture,
User Interface,
GUI,
JSConf,
Adobe Integrated Runtime

Appcelerator's Titanium allows to build and deploy desktop applications which run seamlessly on Windows, OSX and Linux desktops using Javascript and HTML. Jeff Haynie explains how Titanium works, how to build apps and how it compares to Adobe Air.