Tag: microsoft
The forced downgrade: going back to Visio for web prototyping
What happens when you have to drop your fancy prototyping software and go back to Office apps?
Accessibility may affect feasibility of Sharepoint intranet
Microsoft’s Office Sharepoint Server 2007 packs some cosmetic improvements to accessibility, but considerable development will be needed to resolve out-of-the-box problems.
Flash is 10
Love it or hate it, after a decade of design Flash is still with us and with impressive video support, it’s still relevant.
Smart clients dress in grey
I’ve been working on several .NET Smart Clients recently. A Smart Client is a hybrid application in that the user runs it from the desktop, but its data is provided by a Web Service. I tend to avoid the dull marketing speak that Microsoft churns out. This kind of output is often a gloopy porridge …
Microsoft takes on Adobe / Macromedia
Microsoft are pissing in a small pond with new design tool Expression. But will it turn the water a funny colour?
IE7: worth the wait?
It’s been years since Microsoft released a new version of Internet Explorer. So should I get excited now?
More IE woes: the curved corner DIV
Rendering CSS rounded corners is still surprisingly difficult thanks to inconsistently-applied browser standards.
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
Snatch
Ritchie’s stylish talent for quotable, punchy London screenplays still has mileage, so why reinvent the wheel?
- Originally published: 20 Apr 2008 in Film
Orval
3/5. Dark and fizzy, unexpectedly light and bitter. Flavours include grass, orange peel and grapefruit.
- Originally published: 1 Jan 2010 in Beer
Rant
Palahniuk’s changing – or maybe it’s me – but I predict a parting of the ways sometime soon.
- Originally published: 3 Jul 2008 in Books
The Last King of Scotland
A masterclass in biopic acting from Forest Whitaker.
- Originally published: 30 Sep 2007 in Film
Service with a frown: the joy of Brussels taxis
Taking a taxi in Brussels is expensive: maybe the hacks should read some Confucian philosophy
- Originally published: 11 May 2010 in Editorial
Who you gonna call?
Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
Shameless self-promotion
Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.