The Mindjet Labs

If you have any interest in Expression Blend or how I made these journals , you should vote for the two panels that I've submitted for the South by Southwest (SxSW) 2009 interactive festival : Extreme Expression Blend for Silverlight Designers - as many...(read more)

I created something cool that I'd like to share with you.  Imagine if your company had a beautiful luxury product that had intricate workings and you wanted to show how it worked as well as have a way for the product's owners and fans to show it...(read more)

I know it's short notice, but next week I am running a 2-day training on Expression Blend 2.5 and Silverlight 2 in San Francisco for Interactive Designers .  I have a few openings left so if you are interested in coming May 20 and 21 to the Microsoft...(read more)

If anyone went to the Google home page today (I'm sure there were a few) they would have found the Google banner commemorating 50 years of the LEGO block. LEGO blocks were my favorite toy as a child; I spent hours building, rebuilding, designing, creating,...(read more)

If you want to see some great graphic effects in Silverlight and learn how to do them, you've got to go over to this website and see a tutorial on how to do this effect in Expression Blend and Silverlight....(read more)

This week, I invited designers and developers in my Media and Entertainment accounts and creative agencies that work with them to a workshop in Los Angeles where they learned about Expression Blend and Silverlight. It was a great mix of designers and...(read more)

We just completed an 2-1/2 day Expression Blend and Silverlight training course in Denver for some of our communications sector customers and really saw some eyes light up. Our intention was to give our customers some hands-on experience with Expression...(read more)

Last month, I wrote this blog post on how I was using the Webdings typeface to create graphics for Silverlight applications. Well, on Friday I got my MacBook and instantly saw that with Silverlight installed, Webding characters were not showing up in...(read more)

As you can see, I have been experimenting with posting video on my blog now that I have a HD Video Camera ( JVC GZ-HD7U ). I have been trying various encoding formats in Expression Encoder to get a good balance of bit-rate and quality. Here is my workflow:...(read more)

Once you start working with a good design tool enough, it changes the way you think and see the world.  Learning to draw nude figures gave me an appreciation for drawing and  then seeing shade and shadow.    With demonstrating and using Microsoft Expression Blend with Silverlight, that has happened to me.  In my ...