Welcome to blogs.conchango.com

A few days ago, @wandster Tweeted a link to a very interesting blog from Richard Monson-Haefal. It basically told a little history of why the term NUI on Wikipedia, was never going to mean ‘Natural User Interface’ without at least there being a bit of a scrap about it. Now, never one to accept the Status Quo, or the inevitability of defeat, I ...

Microsoft Surface is a 30–inch diagonal display in a table, with an acrylic tabletop. The resolution is lower than on a regular computer screen, which makes graphics and text look less sharp. This creates some challenges for designers. Sans serif fonts with minimal flourishes, flowing outlines, consistent widths, and generous negative space can be ...

Saving a document into a fact file and synching it with Live Mesh

User is watching a news video

User has pulled up information on the creator of the PowerPoint presentation they are currently reading. User can also video call the person, or share a Live Meeting with him.

User is reading a news article.

User has generated a new search on a company by dragging the company name onto the surface

I’ve been working on a Microsoft Surface project for the last couple of weeks. It’s a pretty neat Enterprise Search application that was revealed in FASTForward 09 conference in Las Vegas last week. We also won the User Experience Solution of the Year award, based on next-generation forward thinking for interface and search design.   I’ve ...

  Ouch! Received an email this morning stating that playful design has no place in a business context!   For the last 3 weeks a small team of us have been working on an Enterprise Search application and we finally have something to show for our hard endeavours.  Our Microsoft Surface Enterprise Search demo rears it's pretty ...

  Childlike, in many ways, I retained that inquisitive nature which makes children so frustrating and adorable in equal measures.  Not a thing escapes Isobel’s attention without the questioning of what is that daddy? The Internet gives me access to such a wealth of information and satisfies my urges as an information whore.  ...