Animation

Add beauty, energy, motion and personality to your Apps. This module focuses on how to enhance the user experience via animation. Full course outline: Mod 01: The Microsoft Design Language Mod 02: Less is More Mod 03: Navigation Mod 04: Layout Mod 05: UI Elements Mod 06: Snap and Scale Beautifully…

Learn more about the 5 "y"s of good UI responsiveness. This session will review how to facilitate good UI responsiveness for a fast and fluid experience, how to implement animations and transitions, and how to create custom WinJS controls while building in globalization/localization for…

Abstract:    Michael Palermo is back for this episode and in today’s show he shows us how to implement CSS3 Animations into our Windows 8 apps. Next Steps: Step #1 – Download the Tools for Windows 8 App Development Step #2 – Download Visual Studio Express for Windows 8 Step #3 – Start…

This video show a fast and fluid animation sample for a Windows Store app.

TechFest is one of my favorite conferences each year because we get a little insight into what the powerful mids at Microsoft Research are working on. In this demo, you'll see what the future of 3D facial animation holds and how we can get from our current state to a near perfect simulation all…

Commercial LED cubes have been around for a while now and can be quite large and capable of some interesting displays. This project is on a smaller scale and goes through the steps required to build a Netduino Mini-controlled 512 LED cube (8 x 8 x 8). Clearly, the Mini does not have 512 pins and so…

Interested in creating a game for Windows Phone using Silverlight? In this episode, Jeff Paries, Silverlight MVP and author of the book Silverlight Animation, walks through the source for his Bird Hunt game for Windows Phone 7. He offers tips on how to create a game concept and keep your scope…

On this episode, John Stockton demonstrates how to create animations for Silverlight using Storyboards in Expression Blend. He explores the roles that the storyboards, visual states, behaviors, keyframes, transforms, and easings play in animations. This is a great demonstration of how to add a…

Jeff Arnold, Lead Motion Designer for Windows Phone uncovers the core animations and the principles behind motion on Windows Phone 7. This video is part of the Windows Phone Design Days Series

I've been using the evolution of water supply as an analogy for the evolution of computing platforms for some time now. As part of an internal event this month, we had this animation produced and I thought it was worth sharing.