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Just as “business types” speak a different language than the “techies” – developers and designers sometimes have difficulty finding common ground. To help bridge the gap, Pixel8 is a place where designers are lead to appreciate…

Hi there! To many of you this will not exactly come as a surprising statement, but it is for the majority of IT and business professionals:

User-centeredness is not a luxury – it’s a necessity to be successful in the market.

That’s true for us as a software company and it’s true for our customers that use our controls to build cutting-edge products for their customers and users.

Over the last…

Quince, as you might deduce from our icon (above), is a fruit.  If you read the Quince intro, I briefly allude to Quince being a fruit and link to this wikipedia article about Quince.  But I thought it'd be fun to expound upon the origins for your reading pleasure.

First, to pronunciation.  Those of you who took Spanish or speak it natively have to forget all that when you see Quince.  No es el número quince. 

Just thought I'd pass along this nifty little tip about Quince, specifically, how to take full advantage of it as a tool so it can better integrate into your daily work and feel less like a remote Web site.  We hope folks see it like that and end up using it like that; it's a big reason we made Quince a RIA and not just another Web site. 

Most people use the popular browsers, and all of them have a…

All of the best things are the product of a collaboration of minds, talents, and energies, and Quince is no exception.  I think it is nice to get to know the people a little bit who are behind the products I use, and since there's been a lot of folks who seem to be digging Quince on twitter and blogs, I thought you might like to meet the team that built Quince.

First off, let's start with engineering.  These…

What's a Design Pattern?
Now some of you, looking at Quince, may be wondering what a design pattern is, or maybe you're just curious about the approach we took in authoring them because there are a number of ways to do it.  Design patterns have many representations, of course, but we chose to go with a somewhat more Alexandrian approach (after Christopher Alexander, the early pioneer of design patterns as formal…

Howdy folks!  I'm really happy to announce that Infragistics has launched a really cool (if I do say so myself) new tool for you.  It's all based around the idea of design patterns, which most of us are familiar with, but it is focused in on user experience (UX) design patterns in particular.

Now we've been thinking about and promoting UX design patterns for some time.  In the past, we've listed several catalogues…