Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Wednesday Quickie: Why Rounded Corners Work...

Came across this little article this afternoon via a tweet from @DaveSussman giving some background and justification for using rounded corners in your UI design. Well worth a read - I particularly like the examination of Apple hardware from a rounded corner point of view.

Round your rectangles: http://www.uiandus.com/2009/07/27/theories/realizations-of-rounded-rectangles/

Wednesday Tidbit: Smoooooooth scrolling a ScrollViewer

Spotted this great little article today on how to use the Mediator pattern to allow you to bind an animation to a scroll-viewer to get really slick scrolling.

Smooth as butter on a muffin: http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/archive/2009/08/04/scrolling-so-smooth-like-the-butter-on-a-muffin-how-to-animate-the-horizontal-verticaloffset-properties-of-a-scrollviewer.aspx

Monday, August 03, 2009

Monday Quickie: CSS Resources

This morning, @DaveSussman (http://blogs.ipona.com/davids) posted a link on Twitter to an excellent set of CSS resources:

http://is.gd/20qgs

This post is just an aide-memoire... and to share the CSS goodness.