• A Few Pointers on Icon Design

    Fresh from a recent client engagment, here are a few quick pointers I'd like to share on Icon Creation:

    Support User Recognition
    A very essential factor that needs to be considered when creating icons. The user/audience must be able to recognize the icon easily and its associations. By using real-world objects or effective metaphors, the user can draw from previous experiences.

    Be Simple and Preserve the General Shape…

    • Fri, Apr 29 2011
  • Drop Shadow / Glow Effect using XAML

    As most of know Silverlight has built in effects, however these effects can be pretty memory intensive. One solution would be is to use an image for the shadow, however if you’re planning for the object casting the shadow or glow to dynamically scale the image will either pixelate or not scale. The other solution is to create your drop shadows using rectangles in XAML.
    Here I illustrate the memory usage of a drop…
    • Tue, Apr 5 2011